NEH/SSRC Humanities Grantmaking: Sustaining Humanities Infrastructure Program (SHIP)

FAIN: ZOR-283459-21

Social Science Research Council (Brooklyn, NY 11201-2790)
Jason Rhody (Project Director: May 2021 to February 2022)
Daniella Sarnoff (Project Director: February 2022 to June 2022)
Fredrik Palm (Project Director: June 2022 to January 2024)
Daniella Sarnoff (Co Project Director: August 2021 to February 2022)

A grant program resulting in 20 subawards to provide relief to universities and other academic non-profit organizations recovering from the coronavirus pandemic to build humanities infrastructure responsive to the needs of underserved communities and institutions.

The Social Science Research Council, a nearly 100-year-old nonprofit with decades of experience in grantmaking to humanities scholars and organizations, requests $4,927,834 from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of the Sustaining Humanities Infrastructure Program (SHIP), which would offer grants of up to $100,000 to humanities organizations seeking relief and planning for recovery in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition to support for the full range of humanities infrastructure--the people, projects, and resources at the core of humanities scholarship and teaching--SSRC would prioritize projects and institutions that emphasize topics, themes, and approaches related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as applications from Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs).