Opportunity Information: Apply for 20230112 PJ
The National Digital Newspaper Program is a discretionary, competitive federal grant opportunity run by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through its Division of Preservation and Access. It supports projects that identify, digitize, and make publicly available historically significant newspapers published in the United States and its jurisdictions. The larger goal is to build a comprehensive national digital resource covering newspapers from 1690 through 1963, representing all 56 states and U.S. jurisdictions, so researchers, students, genealogists, journalists, and the general public can search and read these materials online at no cost.
Awards are made through a cooperative agreement, which generally means recipients should expect an active partnership model with NEH and coordination with the Library of Congress (LC) requirements and standards. Digitized newspaper content produced under this program becomes part of a centralized, searchable database maintained by the Library of Congress, ensuring long-term public access and consistent discovery across states and territories. The emphasis is on preservation-minded digitization and high-quality access: selecting important titles, creating usable digital surrogates, and contributing metadata that supports searching, browsing, and citation.
The opportunity is listed under Funding Opportunity Number 20230112 PJ and CFDA 45.149. The maximum award amount (award ceiling) is $325,000, and NEH anticipated making around 10 awards under this cycle. The opportunity was created on September 14, 2022, with an original application closing date of January 12, 2023.
Eligible applicants are broad and include many public-serving and cultural stewardship organizations: state governments; county governments; 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 IRS 501(c)(3) status (excluding higher education institutions when applying in the nonprofit category). In practice, this means applicants are often state libraries, archives, historical societies, universities, or similar entities positioned to manage newspaper collections, rights and permissions considerations, digitization workflows, and public access commitments.
In short, this program funds the work needed to convert historically significant U.S. newspaper runs (within the 1690-1963 publication window) into high-quality digital content and structured data that can be integrated into a free, nationwide online resource maintained by the Library of Congress, expanding public access to primary sources while supporting long-term preservation and discovery.Apply for 20230112 PJ
- The National Endowment for the Humanities in the humanities (see cultural affairs in cfda) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "National Digital Newspaper Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 45.149.
- This funding opportunity was created on Sep 14, 2022.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jan 12, 2023. (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 $325,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 10 candidate(s).
- 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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