Digital Humanities : DH Funding
A resource guide for learning about tools, practices, and projects in the field of digital humanities.
Finding Funding for DH Projects
Below are some grant-making organizations that specifically fund DH-related projects.
- Alfred P. Sloan FoundationOne of the Sloan Foundation's major program areas, Digital Information Technology, has funded Digital Public Library of America, Wikipedia, the Internet Archive, and other projects that increase digital access to knowledge.
- Andrew W. Mellon FoundationThe Mellon Foundation's grant-making area in Higher Education in Scholarship & the Humanities includes support for "programs that scale up training for humanistic engagement with the digital".
- ARTStor Digital Humanities AwardsThese awards from the digital image library support intellectually stimulating projects in the field. The winners will each receive full access to Artstor's Shared Shelf digital media management software for five years to upload, catalog, manage, store, and share their projects.
- Google’s Digital Humanities Research AwardsOffering support to university research groups with unrestricted grants for one year, along with access to Google Tools and subsets of the Google Books text corpus.
- MacArthur Foundation - Digital Media & LearningThe MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media & Learning area of grantmaking supports research and design and innovative labs for the educational benefits of digital media.
- NEH Office of Digital HumanitiesThe wing of the National Endowment for the Humanities that offers grant funding to support projects in the digital humanities.
Grant Resources at UW
Ellen Jacks, the Grants Librarian at University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, is an excellent resource for your questions related to finding and applying for grants funding. She also maintains several research guides that can help you with grant proposal writing, finding federal funding, and other topics.