NEH Implementation of Recent Executive Orders

This page provides information regarding recent Executive Orders and their impact on the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

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Page last updated: Feb. 11, 2025

Changes in NEH Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) 

Applicants should be aware of several recent revisions that NEH is making to its current funding opportunities, or NOFOs.  To comply with recent Administration Executive Orders (“Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing,” “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” and “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling”), NEH is adding several new prohibited categories to the Funding Restrictions section of its NOFOs.   

As required by the Administration’s Executive Orders, NEH awards may not be used for the following purposes:  

• promotion of gender ideology;  
• promotion of discriminatory equity ideology;  
• support for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) or diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) initiatives or activities; or  
• environmental justice initiatives or activities.  

More information about these Executive Orders may be found on the White House’s Presidential Actions webpage.  

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