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Arts & Humanities External Sources of Funding

• Searchable database of funding opportunities (via Community of Science)

• Federal Agency Web Sites:
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services
  • National Archives and Records Administration
  • National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
  • National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
  • Smithsonian Institution

• A Selected List of Non-Federal Agency Web Sites:
  • American Academy in Rome
  • American Antiquarian Society
  • American Philosophical Society
  • American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
  • American Historical Association
  • American Music Center, Inc.
  • Arts International (Institute of International Education)
  • Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
  • The John Carter Brown Library
  • Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute
  • Center for Hellenic Studies
  • Colorado Council on the Arts
  • Colorado Endowment for the Humanities
  • Alden B. Dow Creativity Center
  • Dumbarton Oaks Center
  • Folger Shakespeare Library
  • Ford Foundation
  • German-American Academic Council Foundation (GAAC)
  • J. Paul Getty Trust
  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • Hagley Museum and Library
  • Houghton Library (Harvard University)
  • Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
  • Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
  • Institute for Advanced Study
  • The Inter-American Foundation
  • International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX)
  • Lilly Library (Indiana University)
  • The Henry Luce Foundation
  • The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
  • The MacDowell Colony
  • The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
  • Michigan Society of Fellows
  • National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
  • The National Gallery of Art
  • National Geographic Society
  • National Historical Publications and Records Commission
  • National Humanities Center
  • New York Public Library
  • Newberry Library
  • Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
  • Open Society Institute
  • Organization of American Historians
  • The David and Lucille Packard Foundation
  • The Playwrights' Center
  • Rockefeller Foundation
  • Society for the Humanities (Cornell University)
  • Stanford Humanities Center
  • Vermont Studio Center
  • Villa Montalvo
  • Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
  • Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation
  • Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
  • Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

• Other Funding Information Resources:
  • The Foundation Center:
  • ArtsWire:  a comprehensive clearinghouse of cultural resources including funding for the arts.
  • Open Studio: The Arts Online:  links to more than 80 internet access sites and hundreds of links to arts and related resources.
  • The Grant Advisor:  lots of federal and non-federal links, deadline dates by subject, article search.
  • The Library of Congress:  a wide range of resources for researchers.
  • A Guide for Proposal Writing (from the NSF's Division of Undergraduate Education)