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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Media Projects grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number 20140813-TD) supports the creation of humanities-based content for public audiences through film, television, and radio. The program is run through NEH's Division of Public Programs and is designed to help producers and scholars bring significant humanities topics to broad audiences. Projects are expected to focus on substantial humanities ideas, such as influential people, major events, or important themes in history, culture, or public life, with a clear goal of public engagement rather than purely academic output.

Funding is available for two main media formats. Film and television projects can be either stand-alone programs or multi-episode series, and they must be intended for national distribution. NEH is open to a wide range of lengths, from short-form video to full broadcast-length productions, as long as the program is built around strong humanities content and has a credible plan for reaching a national audience. Radio projects are also eligible and can take several forms, including a single documentary-style episode, a limited series, or recurring segments within an existing program. Radio proposals may either create new humanities programming or add deeper historical context and humanities analysis to existing radio content. Unlike film and television, radio projects may be planned for regional or national distribution, depending on the nature of the program and its audience strategy.

A distinctive feature of this opportunity is NEH's encouragement of multi-format public engagement. Applicants can propose companion or supplemental components that expand audience understanding beyond the broadcast itself. Examples include websites, mobile applications, museum exhibitions, book-and-film discussion programs, and podcasts, as long as these elements clearly support and deepen the core film, television, or radio project. At the same time, NEH draws a boundary around stand-alone digital work: if the digital platform is independent of a film, television, or radio project, applicants are directed to other NEH programs instead. Specifically, independent digital platforms should be routed to Digital Projects for the Public for development-oriented work (noting that this program does not currently support production projects), or to the Museums, Libraries, and Cultural Organizations Implementation Grants program for producing a digital platform that stands on its own.

The program offers two grant categories: Development and Production. Development grants are meant to help media producers collaborate with humanities scholars to shape the intellectual framework of the project and prepare it for production. A strong development proposal is expected to culminate in a script and include a detailed outreach and public engagement plan, ideally built in collaboration with one or more partner organizations. Production grants are geared toward actually producing and distributing the media project, supporting films, television programs, radio programs, and related programming that demonstrate strong potential to engage the public with humanities content. Applicants pursuing production support are expected to follow the specific application guidance for Production Grants referenced by NEH.

The award range listed for this opportunity runs from a minimum (award floor) of $1 up to a maximum (award ceiling) of $1,000,000, and there is no cost-sharing or matching requirement. The opportunity is categorized as a discretionary grant within the humanities funding activity area (CFDA 45.164, Promotion of the Humanities - Public Programs). Eligible applicants include a broad set of organization types, including federally recognized Native American tribal governments, nonprofits (including both 501(c)(3) organizations and certain nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status), private and public institutions of higher education, and various levels of government such as state, county, city or township governments, and special district governments.

Key administrative details provided in the notice include a posted date of June 11, 2014, and a closing deadline of August 13, 2014 (with the original and current closing dates listed the same). Additional program information is available through NEH at http://www.neh.gov/grants/mp. For help accessing the full announcement or for program questions, the contact listed is the Division of Public Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities, 400 Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC 20506, phone 202-606-8269, email publicpgms@neh.gov.

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