The Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI) has recently announced three new grant opportunities with awards ranging from $50,000 to $150,000. The three different categories for award include: higher education; library, archives, and museums grant; and a program for an artist or scholar in residence.
Higher Education grant: open to two-year and four-year minority-serving higher education institutions such as Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions (ANNHs), American Indian Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs), Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs), Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Native American-Serving, Nontribal Institutions (NASNTIs), and Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs). The grants will support the creation or maintenance of community stories in digital formats, where those stories would benefit from inclusion of Library collections. The Library will award one grant for up to $60,000 to support the development of a digital interface, publication, exhibit or experimental approaches to integrating Library collections in a course, program, or interest group that will make use of the product for educational purposes at the institution. Applications close November 15. Please note: the deadline for submitting questions to LOC-grants@loc.gov is November 6.
Library, Archives and Museums grant: open to local cultural heritage organizations to enable storytelling across a range of platforms. Specifically, the Library seeks to award up to $60,000 to a library, archive or museum to support the design and implementation of digital projects (digital exhibits, interfaces, multimedia productions or publications) that use digital materials from the Library of Congress to engage Black, Indigenous or other community members of color. Applications close November 15. Please note: the deadline for submitting questions to LOC-grants@loc.gov is November 6.
Artist or Scholar in Residence program: open to artists or scholars whose work connects with the intersection of technology and cultural heritage, and engages with the legacies of racial division in the U.S. Proposed projects will help the Library and the American people imagine new ways of preserving, accessing and sharing the stories of underserved communities, connecting the nation’s past to its future. Each Artist/Scholar in Residence will be supported for two years with $50,000 during the first year and $100,000 in the second year of the residency. Applications close November 22. Please note: the deadline for submitting questions to LOC-grants@loc.gov is November 14.
Webinars with information on each opportunity will be available later this month.