Assistance program
Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development
$52.2 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 45.163
- What it does
- The Institutes program promotes better teaching and research in the humanities for higher education faculty and K-12 educators. The Landmarks of American History and Culture program promotes better teaching of American history and culture through intensive, place-based professional development for K-12 teachers at historical sites, colonial settlements, battlefields, artists' and writers' homes.
- Who benefits
- Depending on the project, beneficiaries include K-12 teachers or higher education faculty in the humanities, as well as their students and colleagues.
- Who applies
- Eligible applicants include U.S. nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, public and 501(c)(3) accredited institutions of higher education, state and local governmental agencies, and federally recognized Native American Tribal governments.
- Authorized by
- Public Law 89-209; 20 U.S.C. § 951
- Program site
- https://www.neh.gov/divisions/education ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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- Committed through this program
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