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Funding SourcesMinnesota Humanities
Commission
National Endowment for the
Humanities
National Institute of Health
National Humanities
Center
American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Council for International Exchange
of Scholars
Johnson
Endeavor Foundation
Sponsor:Alaska Humanities Forum
Deadline(s): 4/1, 10/1 annually
Objectives:
The sponsor provides funding for a variety of humanities projects. They
support programs that: cultivate appreciation and enjoyment of the
humanities; create dialogue among peoples holding divergent points of
view;¨search for a sense of personal identity and a sense of place through
history, traditions, and new ideas; encourage community-based discussions
of public policy; and pass on the values, methods, and wisdom of the
humanities to future generations of Alaskans.
Proposals should fall into one of the following categories: media (radio, television, film, print); oral history; public meetings and exhibits; publications; research; and planning.
Eligibility:
Eligible applicants are nonprofit organizations, institutions,
individuals, or ad hoc groups.
Sponsor:Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Deadline(s):Sept, Jan, May
Objectives:
Priorities are: programming that cultivate public radio's values
(excellence, authenticity, editorial integrity, and trust) across major
formats; projects that translate these characteristics across multiple
platforms whether derived from existing programming and/or as a
consequence of new programming and how the resulting programming elements
can be integrated successfully within and across multiple
platforms; exploration of the opportunity to serve larger, more diverse
audiences by working across multiple platforms; studies of how the
programming and audiences of one platform can reinforce the public service
across others; projects that can help define what is meant by significant
and successful public service in the new media environment; and new
revenue and infrastructure models that show how existing and emerging
services might be sustained in a more competitive marketplace while also
upholding values. The sponsor prefers projects with wide-spread
impact. The sponsor welcomes proposals for:
--Continuing and limited series and specials.
--Development projects that move individual stations or groups of stations to new levels of listener-intensive revenues.
--Audience projects that advance a licensee's public service or prevent a grantee from falling below the sponsor's audience service criteria.
--Stations working jointly within a market to develop and implement a market-based strategic plan.
--Other projects in which stations and producers test different working relationships with their colleagues and public service providers in the community.
--Projects that assist rural stations to offer multiple broadcast streams, to help such stations become more efficient, for wide area services to improve their local programming, or to employ alternate delivery mechanisms to reach those not now served by public radio, to help stations become eligible for Rural Listener Access Incentive Fund bonuses.
--Research projects that advance understanding of the field, the listeners, their relationship to programming (regardless of platform), and their willingness to contribute to the support of that programming.
Eligibility:
Joint proposals from two or more eligible applicants are allowed.
Sponsor:Center for the Public Domain
Deadline(s):Open
Objectives:
Support is provided for the growth of a healthy and robust public domain
and encourages collaborative projects between different organizations,
and, as such is particularly interested in funding projects that foster
on-going partnerships.
Eligibility:
Grants are provided to tax-exempt organizations.
Sponsor: Ford Foundation
Deadline(s):Open
Objectives:
The education, knowledge and religion unit seeks to enhance educational
opportunity, especially for low-income and chronically disadvantaged
groups, and to address the challenges of pluralism and diversity using
interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches.
The media, arts and culture unit seeks to strengthen the arts and media as vibrant and crucial contributors to the communities and societies in which they function. (skr)
Sponsor: Markle (John & Mary R.) Foundation
Deadline(s):Open
Objectives:
The sponsor provides support for activities including analysis, research,
public information, and the development of innovative media projects and
services. Grantmaking is limited to the following three program
areas: policy for a networked society, interactive media for children, and
information technologies for better health.
Sponsor:National Endowment for the Humanities
Deadline(s):5/1/2003
Objectives:
The goal of NEH media projects is broadcast on television and
radio. Television and film projects should be designed for national
broadcast in prime-time hours. Radio projects may be designed for either
national or broad regional carriage. The Endowment is also interested in
companion digital projects, such as datacasting, DVDs, and interactive
websites that expand the content of broadcast programs and provide the
audience with ways to explore material beyond the broadcast. Applicants
are encouraged to coordinate the development and production of the
broadcast program with the digital companion.
Proposals for media projects may be for documentary programs or historical dramatizations. Dramatic adaptations of literary works are not eligible for funding. Applications for film and television projects may be for single programs or for multi-part series. Applications for radio projects may be for a series to be broadcast independently or for segments to be broadcast within an existing, ongoing program vehicle.
At the heart of NEH media projects is a set of broadly framed humanities themes that tie the elements of the story to larger historical, philosophical, or cultural understandings. In order to reformulate scholarly insights into themes that are compelling to public audiences, media professionals must collaborate with a team of humanities scholars who represent the major areas of scholarship on the subject and have diverse perspectives and approaches.
Eligibility:
Applications must be submitted through a U.S., nonprofit, IRS tax-exempt
organization. State and local government agencies are also
eligible. Before applying, applicants must have written a detailed
treatment or a script showing in full the narrative elements, the
intellectual issues, and the creative approach. If production is
requested for one program in a series, treatments should be included for
all the programs but a detailed treatment or script is required only for
the program for which funding is requested. The treatment should reflect
extensive consultation with the advising scholars, and applicants should
have obtained the commitment of the scholars to continue to advise the
project. Finally, applicants should have recruited the media team,
including at a minimum the producer and the director. The result of a
production grant should be a program ready for broadcast.
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