Deadlines: 1/28/09 for projects starting 9/09; 8/26 for projects starting 4/10

Production grants support the preparation of a program for distribution. 

• offer cross-platform distribution of humanities content that combine radio or television programs with programs using emerging technologies, museum exhibitions, reading and discussion programs, and other formats that expand and enhance the program’s humanities content, deepen the audiences’ experience of the content, engage audiences in new ways, and expand the distribution of programs;
• include but are not limited to DVDs, Web sites, games, virtual environments, streaming, video on demand, and podcasts, as well as user-generated content;
• engage in simultaneous production of a broadcast program and interactive companion content in order to extend the educational experience of the program’s audience, use resources efficiently, and keep the humanities ideas at the center of the project as the broadcast program and the interactivity are designed;
• engage public audiences interactively in exploring humanities ideas and questions by using new ways to contextualize, interpret, and distribute content;
• result in large-scale, collaborative programs featuring multiple formats; and
• build new programs around previously funded NEH projects using complementary formats that will add new dimensions to the original project, and take advantage of new formats and technologies to reach audiences that were not served by the original project.

Deadlines: 1/28/09 for projects starting 9/09; 8/26/09 for projects starting 4/10

Grants for America’s Media Makers support media projects that explore significant events, figures, or developments in the humanities and offer creative and new approaches to humanities content.

• offer cross-platform distribution of humanities content that combine radio or television programs with programs using emerging technologies, museum exhibitions, reading and discussion programs, and other formats that expand and enhance the program’s humanities content, deepen the audiences’ experience of the content, engage audiences in new ways, and expand the distribution of programs;
• advance the role of cultural repositories in online teaching, learning, and research for public audiences, teachers, students, and scholars;
• include but are not limited to DVDs, Web sites, games, virtual environments, streaming, video on demand, and podcasts, as well as user-generated content;
• engage in simultaneous production of a broadcast program and interactive companion content in order to extend the educational experience of the program’s audience, use resources efficiently, and keep the humanities ideas at the center of the project as the broadcast program and the interactivity are designed;
• engage public audiences interactively in exploring humanities ideas and questions by using new ways to contextualize, interpret, and distribute content;
• result in large-scale, collaborative programs featuring multiple formats; and
• build new programs around previously funded NEH projects using complementary formats that will add new dimensions to the original project and take advantage of new formats and technologies to reach audiences that were not served by the original project.