New Grant Opportunities

Department of Labor 
FY 2022 YouthBuild Program
WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to provide pre-apprenticeship services that support education, occupational skills training, and employment services to opportunity youth, ages 16 to 24, while performing meaningful work and service to their communities. The YouthBuild program model contains wrap-around services such as mentoring, trauma-informed care, personal counseling, and employment – all key strategies for addressing community gun violence. Click here for more information.
WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Public or private non-profit agencies including rural, urban, or Native American/Tribal entities 
WHEN'S IT DUE? January 21, 2022

National Endowment for the Humanities 
FY 2022 Media Projects Program
WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program supports the development, production, and distribution of radio programs, podcasts, and stand-alone documentary films that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways. Projects must be grounded in humanities scholarship and demonstrate an approach that is thoughtful, balanced, and analytical; proposals must demonstrate the potential to attract a broad general audience. Click here for more information.
WHO'S ELIGIBLE? 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
WHEN'S IT DUE? January 12, 2022

National Endowment for the Humanities 
FY 2022 Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities National Endowment for the Humanities
WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program supports national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars, humanities professionals, and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Click here for more information.
WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Nonprofits, institutions of higher education, and state, local, tribal, and territorial governments
WHEN'S IT DUE? March 2, 2022

National Archives and Records Administration
FY 2023 Publishing Historical Records in Collaborative Digital Editions
WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to provide access to, and editorial context for, the historical documents and records that tell the American story. Funding will support projects to publish online editions of historical records, which may focus on broad historical movements in U.S. history, such as law, including its social and cultural history; politics; social reform; business; military; the arts; and other aspects of the national experience, including any aspect of African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American history. Click here for more information.
WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Nonprofit organizations, colleges, universities, and other academic institutions, states and local government agencies, and Native American tribes and groups
WHEN'S IT DUE? June 8, 2022

National Archives and Records Administration
FY 2023 Archives Collaboratives: Implementation Grants
WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program supports archives collaboratives working together to make their collections more readily available for public discovery and use. This program will fund archives collaboratives to share best practices, tools, and techniques; assess institutional strengths and opportunities; create replicable and sustainable digital platforms for historical collections; virtually unify records from multiple repositories, and promote management structures for long-term sustainability and growth. Click here for more information.
WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Collaborations of three or more of the following types of organizations: nonprofit organizations, colleges, universities, and other academic institutions, states and local government agencies, and Native American tribes and groups
WHEN'S IT DUE? June 8, 2022

National Archives and Records Administration
FY 2023 Mellon Planning Grants for Collaborative Digital Editions in African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American History and Ethnic Studies
WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program promotes access to America's historical records to encourage understanding of the nation's democracy, history, and culture. In particular, this program intends to broaden participation in the production of historical and scholarly digital editions by supporting BIPOC history professionals, encouraging innovative rethinking of historical digital editions, supporting planning activities essential to producing digital edition projects rooted in African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American history, and stimulating collaborations that help to bridge longstanding institutional inequalities by promoting resource sharing and capacity building. Click here for more information.
WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Nonprofit organizations, colleges, universities, and other academic institutions, states and local government agencies, and Native American tribes and groups
WHEN'S IT DUE? June 8, 2022

Department of Commerce 
FY 2022 Public Safety Innovation Accelerator Program
WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to transform the future of public safety operations by supporting projects that will accelerate research, development, production, and testing of key public safety capabilities related to mission-critical voice, location-based services, and user interface/user experience. Projects will address the urgent need of first responders to have access to the same broadband communications and innovative technologies that consumers on commercial networks currently expect. Click here for more information.
WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Nonprofit and for-profit organizations, institutions of higher education, state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, and hospitals
WHEN'S IT DUE? January 18, 2022

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