Grants for Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development support projects that improve specific areas of humanities education through the development of new or revised curricula and instructional and learning materials. Projects are intended to serve as national models of excellence in humanities education. They must draw upon scholarship in the humanities and use scholars and teachers as advisers. NEH is especially interested in projects that offer solutions to problems frequently encountered by teachers in a particular field of the humanities. Projects may: help schools, colleges, and universities develop (or revise) and implement significant humanities programs, curricula, courses, and materials for teaching and learning; develop and apply technologies to integrate outstanding humanities scholarship into teaching and learning at all levels of K-12 and higher education; or provide materials and tools to ensure that future teachers acquire advanced knowledge and understanding of the humanities.

Support is available for two types of projects:

• Curriculum Development Projects typically unite faculty within individual institutions or from cooperating schools, colleges, and universities to prepare, implement, and evaluate new or revised curricula that can serve as models for humanities teachers nationwide. These projects often involve collaboration among schools and institutions of higher education or organizations such as libraries or museums and regional and national consortia. They also allow faculty to investigate humanities subjects as pathways to instructional reform. Projects must produce specific materials and include plans for maintaining or expanding the results of the grant after the funding ends. Curriculum Development Projects can be funded to a maximum of $100,000 and may span a period of 12 to 18 months.
• Materials Development Projects involve groups of teachers and scholars working collaboratively to create materials focused around a specific humanities topic. The development of the materials will have a significant impact on humanities instruction nationwide. Projects may include the preparation of sourcebooks, document collections, or teaching guides that suggest strategies for reading and interpreting specific humanities topics and texts. Such materials may use print or electronic formats, but preparation of traditional textbooks is ineligible for funding. Applicants may design, produce, and test interactive educational software and other electronic technologies. Projects involving digital materials should run on multiple platforms and should include provisions for long-term development and access. Materials Development Projects can be funded to a maximum of $200,000 and may span a period of up to three years.

For both Curriculum Development Projects and Materials Development Projects, NEH encourages applications in any amount up to the maximum. In every case, the budget must be appropriate to the activities proposed. Applicants should be prepared to assume some cost sharing (i.e., cash contributions made to the project by the applicant and third parties as well as third-party in-kind contributions, such as donated goods and services) toward the project since NEH will not support more than 80% of the total project costs.

Through the Individual Research Grants program, the Wenner-Grenn Foundation will make awards of up to $25,000 for basic research in all branches of anthropology. These grants are intended to seed innovative approaches and ideas, to cover specific expenses or phases of a project, and/or to encourage aid from other funding sources. The Foundation particularly invites projects employing comparative perspectives or integrating two or more subfields of anthropology. Funding covers research expenses directly related and essential to the project (travel, living expenses during fieldwork, equipment, supplies, research assistance, and other relevant expenditures). Grants do not provide for salary and/or fringe benefits, tuition, non-project personnel, travel to meetings, or facilities and administrative (F&A) costs.

Both the Research Grant and Short-Term Grant programs are for the support of scholars in the social sciences or humanities who are working on projects focusing on Eastern Europe or the Baltic. All projects should highlight their potential policy relevance. Applicable academic fields include anthropology, history, political science, Slavic languages and literatures, and sociology. Russia and the Soviet successor states, as well as the former East Germany are excluded from consideration. Research Grants are available to American citizens or permanent residents in the early stages of their academic careers, i.e. before tenure but after the Ph.D., or to scholars whose careers have been interrupted or delayed. Awards are for 2-4 months of research in Washington. Office space at the Wilson Center and a research assistant will be provided whenever possible. Short-Term Grants are for one month and do not include residence at the Wilson Center.

The American Philosophical Society makes fellowship awards in the humanities and social sciences, designed to supplement awarded sabbatical/research leaves. The Sabbatical Fellowship carries a stipend of $30,000 to $40,000 (the precise amount of each fellowship will be determined by the selection committee). Tenure of the fellowship is for the academic year, 2005-2006, or for the calendar year 2006. In the spring of 2006 the fellows will be invited to participate in a two-day, all-expenses-paid symposium at the APS in Philadelphia to meet one another and discuss their work.

The Sabbatical Fellowships program is open to mid-career faculty of universities and 4-year colleges in the United States who have been granted a sabbatical/research leave, but for whom financial support from the parent institution is available for only part of the year. Candidates must not have had financially supported leave at any time subsequent to September 1, 2001. The total of institutional and external support cannot exceed the academic year salary for the year in which the fellowship is held. The Society encourages candidates to use the resources of the American Philosophical Society Library, but this is not a requirement. There is no restriction on where the fellow resides, but an indication of the appropriateness of the available library resources should be given. The candidate's doctoral degree must have been conferred no later than 1997, and no earlier than 1982.