Call for Proposals: The History of U.S. Government-Sponsored Boarding Schools for Native American Children
Published November 8, 2024
Funding Opportunity Number: 20261231-AH
Link to Application Package: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357046
Federal Assistance Listing Number: 45.162
Application Deadline: January 15, 2025, 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time
Anticipated Award Announcement: April 2025
Anticipated FY 2025 Funding: Approximately $200,000
Estimate Number and Type of Award: One cooperative agreement
Award Amount: Up to $200,000
Cost Sharing/Match Required: No
Period of Performance: Up to two years. Projects must start between May 1 and September 1, 2025.
Office Hours: December 4, 2024 at noon Eastern Time.
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Eligible Applicants
- nonprofit organizations recognized as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code
- accredited institutions of higher education (public or nonprofit)
- state and local governments and their agencies
- federally recognized Native American Tribal governments
See C. Eligibility Information in the Notice of Funding Opportunity for additional information.
Program Purpose
Between 1819 and the 1970s, United States policies established Indian boarding schools across the nation. American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children were forcibly removed from their homes and placed in boarding schools, often hundreds of miles away from their home and families. Children were beaten, starved, and punished for speaking the Native languages.
NEH announced an interagency partnership with the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative to better understand, record, and recognize the troubled legacy of federal Indian boarding school policies. NEH has expanded upon the DOI initiative through funded activities that include the collection of oral histories and digitization of records documenting the experiences of survivors and descendants of federal Indian boarding school policies. The Indian boarding school system had a profound and lasting effect on Native communities yet remains largely absent from K-12 curricula.
With this notice, NEH announces a call for applications to the Cooperative Agreements for K-12 Learning Resources Program.
Application Components
A competitive application for the History of U.S.-Sponsored Boarding Schools for Native American Children program will, at minimum:
- design curricula, teaching guides, and media resources appropriate to the K-12 classroom and facilitate a variety of professional learning opportunities, using in-person, virtual, and/or hybrid modalities. Examples include, but are not limited to, webinars, professional development workshops, and conference presentations for professional organizations
- reach a broad spectrum of K-12 educational settings and professionals, including public, private, and home-school educators, curriculum developers, and non-profit education organizations through a variety of platforms and mediums
- offer free digital access to resources developed and sustained support for them after the grant period
- secure rights and licensing fees for any visual or audiovisual materials under copyright and meet minimum accessibility requirements under section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
Your application must develop humanities-based resources about Indian boarding schools for a national audience of educators and students and must follow the instructions in the Notice of Funding Opportunity. You may request up to $200,000 for a period of performance of up to two years.
How to Apply
You must submit your application via Grants.gov using the Grants.gov application package . NEH will consider applications received by January 15, 2025. NEH will not review drafts for this program.
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