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NEH - AMERICA'S MEDIA MAKERS DEVELOPMENT GRANTS

6/6/2008

America’s Media Makers projects promote active exploration and engagement for broad public audiences in history, literature, archaeology, art history, comparative religion, philosophy, and other fields of the humanities. NEH supports the development of humanities content and interactivity that excites, informs, and stirs thoughtful reflection and urges applicants to consider more than one format for presenting humanities ideas to the public. Grants for America’s Media Makers should enable greater audience engagement with the humanities, encourage dialogue and discussion, and foster discovery-based learning across the age spectrum.

NEH offers two categories of grants for media projects, Development Grants and Production Grants.



Development grants enable media producers to collaborate with scholars to develop the humanities content and format and to prepare programs for production. Before applying, applicants must have a solid command of the major humanities scholarship on the subject, have clarified the ideas the project will consider, and have consulted with a team of scholarly advisers to work out the intellectual issues the program will explore. Applicants must also have made preliminary decisions about the format and storyline and located essential materials for the program(s). Finally, they must have recruited the appropriate media professionals, especially the producer, writer, or interactive designer.



Production grants support the preparation of a program for distribution. Applicants must submit a script for a radio or television program or a prototype or storyboard for a digital media project that demonstrates a solid command of the humanities ideas and scholarship about the subject. See application guidelines for Production Grants.



For more information visit: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=41720

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