• Humanities Tennessee

  • Provides three groups of grants: General, Opportunity, and Tennessee Association of Museums Scholarships

  • General Grants: Draft Deadline: March 2nd
    Final Submission Deadline: May 1st
    For Projects Beginning After: June 1st

    • Humanities Tennessee conducts an annual grant competition that supports humanities educational projects designed to serve Tennesseans who are not employed by, or enrolled in, post-secondary educational institutions.

  • Opportunity: Tennessee non-profits with a committed interest in using public humanities projects to further their missions, and that have an annual budget of $150,000 or less. *See website for additional information.

  • TAM:  Humanities Tennessee offers a scholarship program for the Tennessee Association of Museums’ (TAM) annual conference held every March. This initiative stems from our commitment to provide opportunities for professional and organizational development of Tennessee’s museums and their humanities programming.*See website for additional information.

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• Institute of Museum and Library Services​

  • Collections Assessment for Preservation (CAP) Grant application due February 01, 2020.

    • A CAP assessment is a study of the institution’s collections, buildings, and building systems, as well as its collections care policies and procedures. The grant involves a site visit by collections and building assessors, who spend two days touring the museum and interviewing staff and governing officials. The assessors then prepare a comprehensive report that outlines recommendations for improving collections care.

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• National Endowment for the Humanities

  • Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections

  • The Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections (SCHC) program helps cultural institutions meet the complex challenge of preserving large and diverse holdings of humanities materials for future generations by supporting sustainable conservation measures that mitigate deterioration, prolong the useful life of collections, and support institutional resilience: the ability to anticipate and respond to disasters resulting from natural or human activity.

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• Digital Humanities Advancement Grants

  • Digital Humanities Advancement Grants (DHAG) support innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging projects at different stages throughout their life cycles, from early start-up phases through implementation and sustainability. Experimentation, reuse, and extensibility are hallmarks of this program, leading to innovative work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities. This program is offered twice per year. Proposals are welcome for digital initiatives in any area of the humanities.

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• Tennessee State Library and Archives Grants

  • Archives Development Program Direct Grants *Application Deadline TBD  

    • Sara Baxter at sara.baxter@tn.gov or (615) 253-3470.

  • Archival Training

    •  The Tennessee Archives Institute is a two and one-half day series of workshops on the principles and practices of archival management and records preservation. The Institute provides participants with an opportunity to interact and exchange ideas with other archivists and records keepers from around the state.

      • The Institute is intended primarily for county and municipal archivists and records managers. Historians, genealogists, county officials, and other individuals who work with historical records are also invited to participate. Sara Baxter at sara.baxter@tn.gov or (615) 253-3470.

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• National Historical Publications and Records Commission Grants

  • The Tennessee Historical Records Advisory Board (THRAB) encourages applications for NHPRC grants from colleges and universities, historical societies, local governments and other agencies or institutions which collect and preserve historical records.

    • Parties interested in applying for an NHPRC grant may contact the NHPRC directly or visit the websites below:

    • Kathleen Williams, Executive Director
      National Archives and Records Administration
      700 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
      Room 106
      Washington , DC 20408-0001
      E-mail: kathleen.williams@nara.gov
      Phone: (202) 357-5263
      Fax: (202) 357-5914

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• State Board Programming Regrants

  • *Application Deadline TBD