NEH Grant Programs
Enduring Questions Grants Recipt Deadline: September 15, 2011 for projects beginning May 1, 2012)
The deadline for this program has passed. Updated guidelines will be posted in advance of the next deadline. In the meantime, please use these guidelines to get a sense of what is involved in assembling an application.
Date posted: July 13, 2011
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 45.163
Questions?
Contact the staff of NEH’s Division of Education Programs at enduringquestions@neh.gov and 202-606-8380. Hearing-impaired applicants can contact NEH via TDD at 1-866-372-2930.
Grant Program Description
The NEH Enduring Questions grant program supports the development of a new course that will foster intellectual community through the study of an enduring question. This course will encourage undergraduates and teachers to grapple with a fundamental question addressed by the humanities, and to join together in a deep and sustained program of reading in order to encounter influential thinkers over the centuries and into the present day.
What is an enduring question? The following list is neither prescriptive nor exhaustive but serves to illustrate. In addition, please also consider the questions raised in the sample funded projects.
  • What is good government?
  • What is the value of work?
  • What is friendship?
  • What is evil?
  • Are there universals in human nature?
  • What are the origins of the universe?
Enduring questions are questions to which no discipline, field, or profession can lay an exclusive claim. In many cases they predate the formation of the academic disciplines themselves. Enduring questions can be tackled by reflective individuals regardless of their chosen vocations, areas of expertise, or personal backgrounds. They are questions that have more than one plausible or compelling answer. They have long held interest for young people, and they allow for a special, intense dialogue across generations. The Enduring Questions grant program will help promote such dialogue in today’s undergraduate environment.
The course is to be developed by one or more (up to four) faculty members, but not team taught. Enduring Questions courses must be taught from a common syllabus and must be offered during the grant period at least twice by each faculty member involved in developing the course. The grant supports the work of a faculty member in designing, preparing, and assessing the course. It may also be used for ancillary activities that enhance faculty-student intellectual community, such as visits to museums and artistic or cultural events. An Enduring Questions course may be taught by faculty from any department or discipline in the humanities or by faculty outside the humanities (e.g., astronomy, biology, economics, law, mathematics, medicine, psychology), so long as humanities sources are central to the course.
An NEH Enduring Questions course
  • must focus on an explicitly stated question, pursued in a disciplined and deliberate manner;
  • must draw on works from a range of historical periods, with a preference for reading works in their entirety or in substantial portions;
  • may draw on artworks (e.g., music, plays, films, paintings, sculptures);
  • must reflect intellectual pluralism and balance, anticipating more than one plausible answer to the question at hand;
  • may draw solely from Western or non-Western traditions, or combine various traditions;
  • must be open to students regardless of major or concentration; and
  • must have institutional support, as evidenced by a letter from the president, provost, dean, program chair, or department chair, attesting 1) that the college or university supports the course, 2) that the course is new, and 3) that it will be offered at least twice during the grant period by each faculty member involved in developing the course.
Enduring Questions grants may not be used for
  • team-taught courses;
  • redevelopment of previously offered courses;
  • improvement of multiple courses;
  • development of curricular or pedagogical methods or theories;
  • preparation of courses for graduate students;
  • textbook research or revision;
  • projects that seek to promote a particular political, religious, or ideological point of view;
  • projects that advocate a particular program of social action;
  • works in the creative and performing arts (e.g., painting, writing fiction or poetry, dance performance, etc.); or
  • doctoral dissertations, theses, or any other research pertaining to a graduate degree program.
The Enduring Questions program welcomes projects that respond to the theme of Bridging Cultures, an agency-wide initiative encouraging exploration of cultures from around the globe, as well as the myriad subcultures within America’s borders and their influence on American society. Such projects could focus on cultures internationally or within the United States. NEH welcomes projects that enhance understanding of diverse countries, peoples, and cultural and intellectual traditions worldwide. Bridging Cultures projects might also investigate how Americans have approached and attempted to surmount seemingly unbridgeable cultural divides, or examine the ideals of civility and civic discourse that have informed this quest.
Providing access to grant products
As a taxpayer-supported federal agency, NEH endeavors to make the products of its awards available to the broadest possible audience. Our goal is for scholars, educators, students, and the American public to have ready and easy access to the wide range of NEH award products. For the Enduring Questions grant program, such products may include online course materials. For projects that lead to the development of Web-based resources, all other considerations being equal, NEH gives preference to those that provide free access to the public.
III. Award Information
NEH Enduring Questions grants can provide up to $25,000 in outright funds for projects serving a single institution. The grant period may run between eighteen and thirty-six months. Recipients may begin their grants as early as May 1, 2012, but must begin no later than January 1, 2013.
Cost sharing
Cost sharing is not required in this program.
Eligibility
Any U.S. nonprofit IRS 501(c)(3) tax-exempt college or university is eligible.
The Enduring Questions program accepts applications from American two- and four-year colleges and universities on behalf of faculty members who carry a full-time teaching load or its equivalent. Part-time teaching positions at different colleges or universities may amount to the equivalent of a full-time teaching load.
Project directors may be tenured, tenure-track, non-tenure-track, or adjunct faculty members at a two-year or four-year college or university. Graduate students may not serve as project directors, unless they are teaching full-time or its equivalent. Individuals are not eligible to apply.
When more than one faculty member is involved in designing the course, one and only one of them must be listed in the application as the official project director of record.
NEH generally does not award grants to other federal entities or to applicants whose projects are so closely intertwined with a federal entity that the project takes on characteristics of the federal entity’s own authorized activities. This does not preclude applicants from using grant funds from, or sites and materials controlled by, other federal entities in their projects.
Late, incomplete, or ineligible applications will not be reviewed.
Application and Submission Information

HOW TO PREPARE YOUR APPLICATION
Application advice
Prior to beginning, applicants should review the evaluation criteria listed below in Section V.
NEH staff members do not read and comment on draft proposals in the Enduring Questions program. However, potential applicants may discuss with the staff specific questions not covered in the Frequently Asked Questions document that arise during the preparation of their proposals. Contact NEH’s Division of Education Programs at (202) 606-8380 or via e-mail at enduringquestions@neh.gov.
Hearing-impaired applicants can contact NEH via TDD at 1-866-372-2930.
Once an application has been submitted, staff will not comment on it except with respect to issues of completeness and eligibility.
You will prepare your application for submission via Grants.gov. Please keep these important matters in mind as you prepare the application:
  • all parts of the application must be put into PDF format before they are uploaded to Grants.gov (see instructions below);
  • all pages must be formatted with one-inch margins and with a 12-point font; and
  • applications exceeding the page limits will not be reviewed.
In addition to the three forms described below (the Application for Federal Domestic Assistance—Short Organizational, the Supplementary Cover Sheet for NEH Grant Programs, and the Project/Performance Site Location(s) Form), your application should consist of the following seven parts (attached via the Attachments Form):
  1. Narrative—Not to Exceed Six Double-Spaced Pages
    The faculty member(s) preparing the course should provide an intellectual justification for the new humanities course. The narrative should not assume specialized knowledge and should be free of technical terms and jargon. The narrative should address the following areas.
    • Intellectual rationale and teaching value
      State the enduring question in the interrogative form, and make a case for its historical persistence. Include second-order questions that are embedded within the enduring question. Explain the relationship between the core readings and the enduring question to be explored, as well as the relationship of the core works to one another. Discuss additional works that the faculty member(s) will use to prepare the course. The readings must draw on works from a range of historical periods, with a preference for studying them in their entirety or in substantial portions. The course may draw on artworks (e.g., music, plays, films, paintings, sculptures). The works to be studied and the question to be explored must reflect intellectual pluralism, anticipating more than one plausible or compelling approach. Describe the institutional context of the course, including its potential to foster intellectual community and its relation to the existing curriculum.
    • Envisioned course design
      Identify the intended audience for this new course. Describe how the new course will be structured, explaining the anticipated length of the course (in weeks) and the number of sessions each week. Discuss what will be expected of the students (including how much they will be asked to read each week), and explain how the faculty member(s) involved in developing the course will create a community of intellectual inquiry. Justify the choice of readings and other sources and describe how they will be studied and discussed. Explain how the course will deal with the challenges of, for example, unfamiliar art forms or extensive required reading (e.g., online discussion boards, small group sessions, study questions, quizzes). Describe any ancillary student activities (e.g., class trips to concerts, plays, museums). Describe any student writing or research components, as well as any other independent projects or potential outcomes of the course. Discuss how the effectiveness of the new course will be assessed.
    • Plan of work
      Provide a plan of work that describes how the faculty member(s) will prepare to teach the course. Include a timeline, indicating such activities as reading core texts and additional works, preparing class materials, and creating a syllabus.
    • Faculty preparation
      Describe how the Enduring Questions grant will lead to the intellectual growth and expand the scholarly range of the faculty member(s) involved in developing the course. The grant program assumes that the faculty preparing the course will be able to do so without relying on guest lecturers.
  2. Bibliography—Not to Exceed Two Single-Spaced Pages
    The bibliography should consist of primary and secondary sources that will inform the development of the course. Include the works that you plan to study and related literature and other sources that you intend to consult in designing the course.
  3. Core Reading List—Not to Exceed One Single-Spaced Page
    The preliminary reading list should identify the core readings that are likely to be included in the final syllabus of the course. The core readings should be ambitious, but in terms of their length and difficulty they should also be manageable for undergraduates at the applicant institution.
  4. Budget
    Using the Enduring Questions budget information and instructions (4-page PDF), and the budget template (3-page PDF), complete the budget spreadsheet (MS Excel format) or a format of your own that includes all the required information. Sample budgets (for courses developed by a single faculty member or by multiple faculty members) are available for your guidance.
    In addition to the $15,000 stipend for the faculty member(s) to develop the course, applicants may request no more than $10,000 for
    • the purchase of books and other materials necessary for course development;
    • funding for ancillary student activities (e.g., attending plays, concerts, or museum exhibitions);
    • consulting services, such as expert advice for the development of course content;
    • digital consulting services to develop a digital humanities component, such as a project website;
    • costs incurred in publicizing the course; and
    • costs incurred in disseminating the course (e.g., online, in the community, at academic meetings and conferences).
    Any such budgeted items should be discussed briefly in the narrative. The requested amount of no more than $10,000 may also include
  5. Résumé or Brief Biography—Not to Exceed Two Single-Spaced Pages for Each Faculty Member Involved in Designing the Course
    6. Please include the following information:
    • Current and Past Positions.
    • Education: List degrees, dates awarded, and titles of theses or dissertations.
    • Awards, Honors, and Fellowships: Include dates. If you have received prior support from NEH, indicate the dates of these grants and any publications or other products that resulted from them.
    • Course List: List all courses taught within the last three years.
    • Other Relevant Professional Activities and Publications
  6. Letter of Institutional Commitment
    A letter (from the president, provost, dean, program chair, or department chair at the institution at which the course will be taught) MUST certify 1) that the institution supports the proposed course; 2) that the course is new; and 3) that during the grant period it will be offered at least twice by each faculty member involved in developing it. Ideally, this letter would also explain the importance of the course within the institution’s overall curriculum.
  7. Abstract—Not to Exceed Two Hundred Words or One Thousand Characters
    The abstract should be clear, free of jargon, and accessible to nonspecialists.
HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION VIA GRANTS.GOV
Register or Verify Registration with Grants.gov
Applications for this program must be submitted via Grants.gov. Before using Grants.gov for the first time, each organization must register with the website to create an institutional profile. Once registered, your organization can then apply for any government grant on the Grants.gov website.
If your organization has already registered and you have verified that your registration is still valid, you may skip this step. If not, please see the Grants.gov checklist to guide you through the registration process. We strongly recommend that you complete or verify your registration at least two weeks before the application deadline, as it takes time for your registration to be processed. If you have problems registering with Grants.gov, call the Grants.gov help desk at 1-800-518-4726.
As part of the Grants.gov registration process, applicants are required to register with the Central Contractor Registration (CCR). Grantees are also required to maintain the currency of their information in the CCR by reviewing and updating their information at least annually after the initial registration, and more frequently if required by changes in information.
Download the Free Adobe Reader Software
To fill out a Grants.gov application package, you will need to download and install the current version of Adobe Reader. The latest version of Adobe Reader, which is designed to function with PCs and Macintosh computers using a variety of popular operating systems, is available at no charge from the Adobe website (www.adobe.com). Click on “Get Adobe Reader” and then “Download Now.”
Once installed, the current version of Adobe Reader will allow you to view and fill out Grants.gov application packages for any federal agency. If you have a problem installing Adobe Reader, it may be because you do not have permission to install a new program on your computer. Many organizations have rules about installing new programs. If you encounter a problem, contact your system administrator.
Download the Application Package
To submit your application, you will need to download the application package from the Grants.gov website. You can download the application package at any time. (You do not have to wait for your Grants.gov registration to be complete.) Click the button at the right to download the package.
Save the application package to your computer’s hard drive. To open the application package, select the file and double click. You do not have to be online to work on it.
You can save your application package at any time by clicking the “Save” button at the top of your screen. Tip: If you choose to save your application package before you have completed all the required forms, you may receive an error message indicating that your application is not valid. Click “OK” to save your work and complete the package another time. You can also use e-mail to share the application package with members of your organization or project team.
The application package contains four forms that you must complete in order to submit your application:
  1. Application for Federal Domestic Assistance—Short Organizational—this form asks for basic information about the project, the project director (i.e., the faculty member), and the institution.
  2. Supplementary Cover Sheet for NEH Grant Programs—this form asks for additional information about the project director, the institution, and the budget.
  3. Project/Performance Site Location(s) Form—this form asks for information about the primary site(s) at which grant activities will take place.
  4. Attachments Form—this form allows you to attach your narrative, budget, and the other parts of your application.
To assist applicants, Grants.gov provides a helpful troubleshooting page.
How to Fill Out the Application for Federal Domestic Assistance—Short Organizational
Select the form from the menu and double click to open it. In items 6, 7, 8, and 9 below, NEH recommends that the project title, brief project description, project director’s name, primary contact/grants administrator’s name, and authorized representative’s name be typed directly onto the form, instead of being pasted in; pasted-in quotation marks, diacritics, and other symbols are often converted into question marks during transmittal.
Please provide the following information:
  1. Name of Federal Agency: This will be filled in automatically with “National Endowment for the Humanities.”
  2. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: This will be filled in automatically with the CFDA number and title of the NEH program to which you are applying.
  3. Date Received: Please leave blank.
  4. Funding Opportunity Number: This will be filled in automatically.
  5. Applicant Information: In this section, please supply the name, address, employer/taxpayer identification number (EIN/TIN), DUNS number, website address, and congressional district of the institution. Also choose the “type” that best describes your institution (you only need to select one).
    If your institution is located, for example, in the 5th Congressional District of your state, put a “5.” If your institution doesn’t have a congressional district (e.g., it is in a state or U.S. territory that doesn’t have districts or is in a foreign country), put a “0” (zero).
    All institutions applying to federal grant programs are required to provide a DUNS number, issued by Dun & Bradstreet, as part of their application. Project directors should contact their institution’s grants administrator or chief financial officer to obtain their institution’s DUNS number. Federal grant applicants can obtain a DUNS number free of charge by calling 1-866-705-5711. (Learn more about the requirement.)
  6. Project Information: Provide the title of your project. Your title should be brief (no more than 125 characters), descriptive, and substantive. It should also be informative to a nonspecialist audience. Provide a brief (no more than one thousand characters) description of your project. The description should be written for a nonspecialist audience and clearly state the importance of the proposed work and its relation to larger issues in the humanities. List the starting and ending dates for your project.
  7. Project Director: Provide the name, title, mailing address, e-mail address, and telephone and fax numbers for the project director. When more than one faculty member is involved in designing the course, one and only one of them must be listed in the application as the official project director of record.
  8. Primary Contact/Grants Administrator: Provide the contact information for the official responsible for the administration of the grant (i.e., negotiating the project budget and ensuring compliance with the terms and conditions of the award). This person is often a grants or research officer, or a sponsored programs official. Normally, the Primary Contact/Grants Administrator is not the same person as the Project Director. If the project director and the grants administrator are the same person, skip to Item 9.
  9. Authorized Representative: Provide the contact information for the Authorized Organization Representative (AOR) who is submitting the application on behalf of the institution. This person, often called an “Authorizing Official,” is typically the president, vice president, executive director, provost, or chancellor. In order to become an AOR, the person must be designated by the institution’s E-Business Point of Contact. For more information, please consult the Grants.gov user guide, which is available at http://www.grants.gov/applicants/app_help_reso.jsp.
How to Fill Out the Supplementary Cover Sheet for NEH Grant Programs
Select the form from the menu and double click to open it. Please provide the following information:
  1. Project Director: Use the pull-down menu to select the major field of study for the project director.
  2. Institution Information: Use the pull-down menu to select your type of institution.
  3. Project Funding: Enter your project funding information. Note that applicants for Challenge Grants should use the right column only; applicants to all other programs should use the left column only.
  4. Application Information: Indicate whether the proposal will be submitted to other NEH grant programs, government agencies, or private entities for funding. If so, please indicate where and when. NEH frequently cosponsors projects with other funding sources. Providing this information will not prejudice the review of your application.
    For Type of Application, check “new” if the application requests a new period of funding, whether for a new project or the next phase of a project previously funded by NEH. Check “supplement” if the application requests additional funding for a current NEH grant. If requesting a supplement, provide the current grant number. Before submitting an application for a supplement, applicants should discuss their request with an NEH program officer.
    For Project Field Code, use the pull-down menu to select the humanities field of the project. If the project is multidisciplinary, choose the field that corresponds to the project’s predominant discipline.
How to Fill Out the Project/Performance Site Location(s) Form

Select the form from the menu and double click to open it. Please provide the requested information. Instructions for the form can be found here: http://www.grants.gov/assets/SF424Site_Location_Instructions.pdf. Alternatively, instructions for each requested data element may be viewed by positioning your cursor over the blank field.

How to Use the Attachments Form
You will use this form to attach the files that make up your application.
Your attachments must be in Portable Document Format (.pdf). We cannot accept attachments in their original word processing or spreadsheet formats. If you don’t already have software to convert your files into PDFs, many low-cost and free software packages will do so. To learn more, go to www.neh.gov/grants/grantsgov/pdf.html.
When you open the Attachments Form, you will find fifteen attachment buttons, labeled “Attachment 1” through “Attachment 15.” By clicking on a button, you will be able to choose the file from your computer that you wish to attach. You must name and attach your files in the proper order so that we can identify them. Please attach the proper file to the proper button as listed below:
ATTACHMENT 1: To this button, please attach your project narrative. Name the file “narrative.pdf”.
ATTACHMENT 2: To this button, please attach your bibliography. Name the file “bibliography.pdf”.
ATTACHMENT 3: To this button, please attach your core reading list. Name the file “readings.pdf”.
ATTACHMENT 4: To this button, please attach your budget. Name the file “budget.pdf”.
ATTACHMENT 5: To this button, please attach the résumé(s) of the faculty who would develop the course. Name the file “resume.pdf”.
ATTACHMENT 6: To this button, please attach your letter of institutional commitment. Name the file “letter.pdf”.
ATTACHMENT 7: To this button, please attach your abstract. Name the file “abstract.pdf”.
No other attachments should be included. Applications submitted with additional attachments or with attachments that exceed the length limitations will not be reviewed.
Uploading Your Application to Grants.gov
When you have completed all four forms, use the right-facing arrow to move each of them to the “Mandatory Documents for Submission” column. Once they have been moved over, the “Submit” button will activate. You are now ready to upload your application package to Grants.gov.
During the registration process, your institution designated one or more AORs (Authorized Organization Representatives). These AORs typically work in your institution’s Sponsored Research Office or Grants Office. When you have completed your application, you must ask your AOR to submit the application, using the special username and password that were assigned to him or her during the registration process.
To submit your application, your computer must have an active connection to the Internet. To begin the submission process, click the “Submit” button. A page will appear, asking you to sign and submit your application. At this point, your AOR will enter his or her username and password. When you click the “Sign and Submit Application” button, your application package will be uploaded to Grants.gov. Please note that it may take some time to upload your application package, depending on the size of your files and the speed of your Internet connection.
After the upload is complete, a confirmation page will appear. This page, which includes a tracking number, indicates that you have submitted your application to Grants.gov. Please print this page for your records. The AOR will also receive a confirmation e-mail message.
NEH suggests that you submit your application no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the day of the deadline. Doing so will leave you time to contact the Grants.gov help desk for support, should you encounter a technical problem of some kind. The Grants.gov help desk is now available seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day (except on federal holidays), at 1-800-518-4726. You can also send an e‑mail message to support@grants.gov.
To assist applicants, Grants.gov provides a helpful troubleshooting page.
Deadlines

Applications for NEH Enduring Questions grants must be received by Grants.gov by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on September 15, 2011. Grants.gov will date- and time-stamp your application after it is fully uploaded. Applications submitted after that date will not be accepted.

Application Review
Evaluators are asked to apply the following criteria when judging the quality of applications.
  1. Intellectual quality
    Does the proposed course clearly focus on an enduring question that is stated in the interrogative form?

    Does the proposal make a persuasive case for the historical persistence of the question?

    Is the intellectual rationale of the course compelling?
    Is there a well-articulated relationship between the enduring question to be considered and the works to be studied by the faculty member(s) in preparing the envisioned course?
    Are intellectual pluralism and balance evident in the question to be considered and in the works proposed for the course?
    Does the approach to the question suggest more than one plausible answer?
    Does the course draw on works from a range of historical periods?
    Does the course emphasize the study of works in their entirety or in substantial portions?
    Is there a well-articulated relationship between the enduring question to be considered and the works to be studied by the faculty member(s) in preparing the envisioned course?
    Is the proposal clear, free of jargon, and accessible to nonspecialists?
  2. Feasibility
    Is the plan of work well designed?
    Does the course development plan encourage the faculty member(s) to reach beyond their current expertise?
    Is the course development plan sufficiently comprehensive to enable the faculty member(s) to offer the course without relying on guest presenters (including any project team members)?
    Is the envisioned course well suited to its intended audience?
    Are the envisioned core readings ambitious but realistic for undergraduates at the applicant institution?
    Are ancillary activities, if any, well conceived?
  3. Impact
    Is the proposed course new?
    Does the course have the potential to foster intellectual community—anchored in an enduring question—among students in the course?
    Has the institution committed to having the course offered at least twice during the grant period by each faculty member involved in developing it?
NEH expects grantees to provide broad access to all grant products, insofar as the conditions of the materials and intellectual property rights allow. In particular, NEH expects grantees to make the course syllabus (accompanied by the NEH logo) accessible to the public, and it reserves the right to disseminate information (such as syllabi and links to course websites) on its own website. For projects that lead to the development of websites, all other considerations being equal, NEH gives preference to those that provide free access to the public.
Review and selection process
Knowledgeable persons outside NEH will read each application and advise the agency about its merits. NEH staff comments on matters of fact or on significant issues that otherwise would be missing from these reviews, then makes recommendations to the National Council on the Humanities. The National Council meets at various times during the year to advise the NEH chairman on grants. The chairman takes into account the advice provided by the review process and, by law, makes all funding decisions.
Award Administration Information
Award notices
Applicants will be notified of the decision by e-mail in April 2012. Institutional grants administrators and project directors of successful applications will receive award documents by e-mail in April 2012. Applicants may obtain the evaluations of their applications by sending an e-mail message to enduringquestions@neh.gov.
Administrative requirements
Before submitting an application, applicants should review their responsibilities as an award recipient.
Award conditions
The requirements for awards are contained in the General Terms and Conditions for Awards, the Addendum to it, any specific terms and conditions contained in the award document, and the applicable OMB circulars governing federal grants management.
Reporting requirements
A schedule of report due dates will be included with the award document. Reports must be submitted electronically via eGMS, NEH’s online grant management system.
Interim reports and a final performance report will be required. Further details can be found in Performance Reporting Requirements.
A final Federal Financial Report (SF-425) will be due within ninety days after the end of the award period. For further details, please see the Financial Reporting Requirements
Recipients will be expected to submit a course syllabus, a bibliography, and other relevant materials upon the completion of the grant. These materials may be posted on the NEH website.
Points of Contact
If you have questions about the program, contact:
Enduring Questions
Division of Education Programs
National Endowment for the Humanities
Room 302
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20506
202-606-8380
enduringquestions@neh.gov
If you need help using Grants.gov, contact:
Grants.gov: www.grants.gov
Grants.gov help desk: support@grants.gov
Grants.gov customer support tutorials and manuals: www.grants.gov/applicants/app_help_reso.jsp
Grant.gov support line: 1-800-518-GRANTS (4726)
Grant.gov troubleshooting page.
Other Information
Privacy policy
Information in these guidelines is solicited under the authority of the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965, as amended, 20 U.S.C. 956. The principal purpose for which the information will be used is to process the grant application. The information may also be used for statistical research, analysis of trends, and Congressional oversight. Failure to provide the information may result in the delay or rejection of the application.
Application completion time
The Office of Management and Budget requires federal agencies to supply information on the time needed to complete forms and also to invite comments on the paperwork burden. NEH estimates that the average time to complete this application is fifteen hours per response. This estimate includes time for reviewing instructions, researching, gathering, and maintaining the information needed, and completing and reviewing the application.

Please send any comments regarding the estimated completion time or any other aspect of this application, including suggestions for reducing the completion time, to the Chief Guidelines Officer, at guidelines@neh.gov; the Office of Publications, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, D.C. 20506; and the Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project (3136-0134), Washington, D.C. 20503. According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB number.

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