Promotion of the Humanities – Reference Materials/Guides

The National Endowment for the Humanities funded one Project Grant under Assistance Listing 45.124 for promotion of humanities reference materials and guides, with the most recent award disbursed on October 1, 1994 — thirty-two years ago.

The program appears dormant. A single $100 thousand award supported completion of an international union catalog and bibliography of early English serials, which concluded in September 2006. No grant opportunities have been posted recently, and no awards have been disbursed since 1994. The portfolio block reports one award total across the program's history, suggesting this Assistance Listing either has not been active as a standalone funding vehicle in recent years or has not generated competitive demand.

When the program was active, it funded reference research and bibliographic documentation work in the humanities—in this case, archival cataloging and synthesis of scholarly resources across international institutions. The single award was structured as a Project Grant, the standard assistance type for time-limited, deliverable-focused research activities at the NEH.

Given the complete absence of award activity for more than three decades and no indication of recent grant opportunities, organizations should verify current program status with the National Endowment for the Humanities before allocating business development resources to this Assistance Listing. The program may have been consolidated, replaced, or redirected into other NEH funding vehicles. If humanities reference materials and guides remain a funding priority, applicants should confirm whether NEH now solicits such work under different program numbers or combined funding streams.