Cogut Institute for the Humanities
December 1, 2025

New England Humanities Consortium Community Collaborative Grants

Funding Opportunity

The New England Humanities Consortium (NEHC), of which the Cogut Institute for the Humanities is a member, is offering competitive community collaborative grants for research initiatives in the humanities that seek to encourage cross-fertilization of ideas and interests, as well as to generate long-lasting ties and mutual support among humanities researchers and practitioners from diverse types of institutions across New England.

NEHC will make awards of up to $5,000 for projects that pair faculty colleagues from NEHC member institutions in collaboration with colleagues in non-member regional or local community colleges, public universities, public humanities organizations, and public cultural institutions. For projects whose total budgets exceed $5,000 applicants must list additional committed funding sources and amounts.

Potential areas of funding interest include the following (this list is by no means exhaustive):

  • Collaborative research projects
  • Digital humanities projects
  • Social justice humanities projects
  • Publichumanities programming series
  • Programming with state humanities councils
  • Study, writing, or working groups
  • Shared speakers series across institutions
  • Collaborative course design
  • Exhibitions and public performance series

Eligibility

Applications are welcome from individuals or teams, but the PI must be on the faculty of a NEHC member institution.

Applicants must receive confirmation from the director of the humanities center/institute at the lead PI’s institution that the proposal and budget follow institutional policy and procedure before making their submission to NEHC.

Application

The proposal and budget must be shared with the director of the humanities center/institute at the lead PI’s institution as early as possible and preferably by November 14 for the purpose of verifying that activities and expenses follow institutional policy and procedure. Brown University faculty members should email their proposal and budget to humanities-institute@brown.edu.

Application materials are due to NEHC through the Google Form by 11:59 pm EST, December 1, 2025.

Applications must include the following:

1. Cover page (1 page) stating

  • Title of the project.
  • Name, department/program/school location, and NEHC school representation of PI(s).
  • Requested NEHC funding amount (awards of up to $5000).

2. Project narrative (2 pages, single spaced, 1” margins, 12 pt font) detailing:

  • The goals of the project.
  • How those goals address the mission of the NEHC.
  • Plans for involving NEHC member institutions and which non-member institutions in particular will be involved.
  • How those goals will be pursued.
  • Names and roles of participants.
  • Expected outcomes and/or deliverables.
  • Effect of this project on long-term relations between institutions.
  • External funding sources, if any.
  • Project timeline describing completion of project goals and outcomes.

3. CV (2 page) of Principal Investigator(s)

4. Budget and Award Period:

  • Total budget. (For projects whose budgets exceed $5000, please list additional committed funding sources and amounts, as validated by an attached letter of support.)
  • The award period will typically not exceed one (1) calendar year and must be stated in the application timeline. The awardees will be required to submit a detailed summary of the project at the end of their funding term.

Please review this FAQ document and email questions to cah@colby.edu.

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