Digital Humanities Advancement Grants

Maximum award amount

Level I: $75,000
Level II: $150,000
Level III: $350,000, with an additional $100,000 in matching funds

Expected Output

Article; Digital Infrastructure; Digital Resource or Publication; Report; Software; Teaching Resources; Workshop

Period of performance

Up to thirty-six months

About the Program
Application Instructions

The Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program (DHAG) supports work that is innovative, experimental, and contributes to the critical infrastructure that underpins scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities.

DHAG is one of many grant programs at the NEH that funds digital humanities projects. Please consult these resources to help find the right program to support your work. Prospective applicants seeking ODH staff feedback about the fit of their project to the DHAG program are invited to submit a brief project description by emailing @email.

NEH partners with the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) on this program. IMLS encourages DHAG applicants to work in collaboration, and employ the expertise of, library and archives staff at your institution or across the country to strengthen knowledge networks, empower community learning, foster civic cohesion, advance research, and support the traditionally underserved.

What’s New for 2025

The second deadline is now in May (previously in June).
The Funding Restrictions section has been reworked and updated; please consult the list of restricted activities before submitting an application.
The Review Criteria have been reworked and streamlined.
Awards made at the May deadline will be subject to NEH’s Public Access policy (please see here for more information).

Reminders

Applications will be declared ineligible for review if they do not comply with all requirements indicated with a “must” outlined in the NOFO. This includes page and section limits.
Two or more applications for federal funding and/or approved federal award budgets are not permitted to include overlapping project costs.
While we encourage letters of commitment, letters of support are not allowed. Any letters submitted by individuals not participating in the project will be removed from the application.

A webinar for the 2025 deadlines will be posted by October 24, 2024.

Application Instructions

Review your application package

Read the Notice of Funding Opportunity to ensure you understand all the expectations and restrictions for projects delivered under this program and that you are prepared to write the most effective application.

Application Materials

Notice of Funding Opportunity 2025 (PDF)

Grants.gov application package

Program Resources

Frequently Asked Questions 2025 (PDF)

List of recent awards in this program

2025 DHAG webinar

Policy on the Use of Artificial Intelligence for NEH Grant Proposals

Sample Application Narratives

Level I

Level II

Level III

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Complete your application package

Follow the instructions outlined in the Notice of Funding Opportunity and in the Grants.gov instructions.

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