Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants
Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities
Assistance Listings
- 45.130 -- Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants
Closed opportunityLast Updated: May 13, 2026
Important dates
- Closed: September 28, 2021
Award details
- Expected project funding: $6,500,000
- Expected awards: 15
Award min.
$1
Award max.
$750,000
- Funding opportunity number:20210518-CHA
- Cost sharing or matching requirement:Yes
- Funding instrument type:
- Grant
- Opportunity Category:Discretionary
- Opportunity Category Explanation:Not specified
- Category of Funding Activity:
- Humanities
- Category Explanation:Not specified
History
- Posted date: March 4, 2021
- Archive date: Not specified
- Version: 3
Summary
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Challenge Grants is accepting applications for the Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants program. Capital Projects support the design, purchase, construction, restoration, or renovation of facilities for humanities activities. Digital Infrastructure projects support the maintenance, modernization, and sustainability of existing digital scholarly projects and platforms. For both Capital Projects and Digital Infrastructure, expenditures must be shown to bring long-term benefits to the institution and to the humanities more broadly.
Eligibility
Education
- Public and state institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
Government
- Special district governments
- State governments
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Federally recognized Native American tribal governments
Nonprofit
- Nonprofits non-higher education with 501(c)(3)
Additional information on eligibility
Not specified
Documents
No documents are currently available.
Agency contact information
Email: challenge@neh.gov
challenge@neh.gov
Office of Challenge Programs
National Endowment for the Humanities
400 Seventh Street, SW
Washington, DC 20506
202-606-8309
challenge@neh.gov
