*Editor’s Note: there will be no GrantWeek during Thanksgiving Week. GrantWeek will return on Wednesday, December 2, 2015 and resume its usual Monday release schedule the following week.
GRC Member Among Highest-Rated i3 Finalists
Jacksonville State University (JSU) in Alabama is among the highest-rated finalists of the FY 15 Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund competition.
NEA Announces Next Big Read Competition
The National Endowment for the Arts recently announced the next round of its Big Read program. The program supports innovative community reading programs, focused on a single book or poet, with the goal of encouraging reading and participation by diverse audiences.
NPS Announces Funding for Underrepresented Communities to Preserve Their Historic Places
The National Park Service (NPS) recently awarded $500,000 in grants to help fund preservation projects at sites with ties to Latino, African American, Asian American, LGBTQ, women, and Native American communities.
GRC Organizes Discussions with Federal Program Officers for Members
If representatives from your institution will be in the nation’s capital, feel free reach out to your assigned GRC staff to organize federal agency meetings for your visit.
NEH Holds Challenge to Explore Data from Early U.S. Newspapers
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is calling for entries as part of a new challenge to create web-based projects that pull data from Chronicling America, a digital repository of historic U.S. newspapers.