Opportunity Information: Apply for 20180829 TD
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Media Projects program is a discretionary grant opportunity designed to help producers create documentary film and television, radio, and podcast projects that bring humanities ideas to broad public audiences in engaging, accessible ways. The program is aimed at work that is not just informational, but interpretive: projects are expected to be thoughtful, balanced, and analytical, using humanities scholarship to explore why a topic matters and to encourage reflection rather than simply presenting facts. Supported subjects must be grounded in humanities disciplines such as history, art history, film studies, literature, religious studies, philosophy, or anthropology, and the resulting work should show clear intellectual rigor and credibility through meaningful collaboration with scholars.
Because NEH is a national funding agency, a central expectation is that funded projects demonstrate real potential to reach a wide general audience, not only a niche or academic community. Film and television proposals can be either single programs or series focused on significant people, events, or ideas, with distribution plans that may be regional or national and may use traditional broadcast carriage, streaming, or other online platforms. NEH welcomes a wide range of video lengths, from short-form pieces to broadcast-length programs. Within film and television, the program particularly encourages projects that deepen public understanding of American history and culture and that contribute to civics education, while also supporting strong projects focused on international humanities themes.
For audio, the program supports radio and podcast projects in several formats, including stand-alone episodes, limited series, or segments that fit within an ongoing series. Production-funded audio projects may be broadcast, distributed online, or both, and can be built for national or regional audiences. Across all media types, NEH emphasizes public engagement and encourages producers to think beyond a single format. Applicants can propose supplementary outreach components that extend the impact of the media project, such as book-and-film discussion programs, educational or companion websites, partnerships with cultural institutions, or museum exhibitions tied to the media content.
The opportunity offers two primary funding tracks tied to different stages of work. Development grants typically range from 40,000 to 75,000 and are meant to support early-stage collaboration between media producers and humanities scholars. These awards are intended to help develop the humanities framework and narrative approach and to prepare a project for production. Development outcomes are expected to be concrete: film and television development should result in a script, while radio and podcast development should produce detailed treatments, and applicants may also create robust outreach and public engagement plans in partnership with one or more organizations. Production grants support the full production and distribution of documentary films, television programs, radio programs, and podcasts, with awards noted as up to 650,000 in the program description (while the source data lists an overall award ceiling of 1,000,000). The overall goal at the production stage is to bring a well-developed, scholarship-driven concept to completion and ensure it reaches audiences through credible distribution strategies.
Eligible applicants include a wide range of public and nonprofit entities: state, county, and city or township governments; special district governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; and nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status (other than higher education institutions). The funding activity category is Humanities under CFDA number 45.164, and the agency is the National Endowment for the Humanities. The opportunity is listed under funding opportunity number 20180829 TD, with an original closing date of 2018-08-29 and a creation date of 2018-07-05.Apply for 20180829 TD
- The National Endowment for the Humanities in the humanities sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Media Projects" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 45.164.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2018-07-05.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2018-08-29. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,000,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.
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