Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support planning for the future of the organization's archives

Planning for the Future of the National Book Foundation's Archives

to support a nationwide initiative to engage readers in public programming with National Book Award winners and other great writers, with a focus on communities in underserved regions

NBF Presents

to support research on the availability in the United States of books translated into English

A Study of Translated Books in the US

to support the Literary Arts Emergency Fund

Literary Arts Emergency Fund

to support COVID-19 emergency response grants for nonprofit literary arts organizations

COVID-19 Emergency Response Grants to Nonprofit Literary Arts Organizations

to support a book documenting and celebrating the 25-year history of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company

25th Anniversary History Book

to support an expansion of the Center for Creative Research, and an increase in national dance touring grants

CCR & National Dance Tours

to support the National Dance Project regranting program

National Dance Project

for support of Theatre, Inc. (Phoenix Theatre), New York

Theatre Inc.

National Theater Program

to continue support for the National Theater Project

National Theater Project

to support the National Theater Project regranting program

to support a three-year residency through the National Playwright Residency Program

National Playwright Residency Program

to support a pilot of the National Theater Project

to continue support for the National Dance Project

to support programmatic enhancements to the National Dance Project

to support the evaluation of electronic book usage

E-Book User Study

to support the National Residency Program

Special National Residency

to support an international conference, collaborative research projects, and an edited volume on critical bibliography

Bibliography Among the Disciplines - Rare Book School Conference and Publication

to support the National Dance Project and related planning

National Dance Project and Related Planning

to support a work plan for establishing a National Leadership Council for the Humanities

National Leadership Council for the Humanities

National Residency Program Bridge Support

toward costs of book and journal donations to institutions in Eastern Europe

EEP - Book/Journal Donations

to complete Foundation support for the development of a coordinated digital database of images and information on plants of the world

Plants Initiative

to support the National Dance Project university residency program for choreographers, and its touring program

Center for Creative Research and National Dance Project Training

toward costs of its book and journal donation activities in Eastern Europe

EEP - Book & Journal Donation Program

EEP - Book and Journal Donation Program

to continue support for the development of collaborative partnerships and inclusive survey administration for the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project

Strategic National Arts Alumni Project

to support Long Wharf Theatre’s Stage II productions

support of Sports Foundation, Inc., which sponsors recreational programs for youth, educational guidance and job training

Exclusive Support of Sports Foundation

National Theater Program  

to support the expansion of current work to educate the public and policy makers about the vital role that the National Endowment for the Humanities plays in national and community life

Promoting Understanding of the Role of the NEH

to support the digitization of out-of-print humanities titles and the dissemination of those titles on an open-access basis

Humanities Open Book

to support a fellowship program to advance the diversity of staffing and curatorial practice in special collections libraries

The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage

to support graduate student training in the conservation of library and special collection materials

Book and Paper Conservation Training Program

to support the New Press in countering book bans through its new "Forbidden Books Series"

Forbidden Books Fund

to support a national choreographic research conference at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography

National Choreography Research Conference

to support the development of a summer fellowship program in critical bibliography

The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography

to support the pre-assessment phase of legacy planning for Meredith Monk and The House Foundation for the Arts, Inc.

Legacy Planning

toward costs of acquiring books and periodicals and sending them to East European institutions

to support the Theory of the Foundation Learning Collaborative

Theory of the Foundation

to support the continuation of pilot programs in graduate-level training in the conservation of library and special collections materials

Book and Paper Conservation Training Program - Phase III

Book and Paper Conservation Training Program - Phase II

Artists as Catalysts

Artists as Catalysts Navigation Image

Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

In portrait orientation, an aerial view of a major highway running parallel to a large border wall set on a hilly landscape

Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 