Deadline: 3 December 2024
The American Council of Learned Societies is accepting applications for its Digital Justice Grants to promote and provide resources for projects at various stages of development that diversify the digital domain, advance justice and equity in digital scholarly practice, and/or contribute to public understanding of racial and social justice issues.
This program supports digital projects across the humanities and interpretative social sciences that critically engage with the interests and histories of people of color and other historically marginalized communities through the ethical use of digital tools and methods. In this way, the program seeks to address the inequities in the distribution of access to tools and support for digital work among scholars across various fields, those working with under-utilized or understudied source materials, and those in institutions with less support for digital projects.
The program offers two kinds of grants: Digital Justice Seed Grants for projects at early stages of development; and Digital Justice Development Grants for projects that have advanced beyond the start-up or early phases of development. All grantees will have the opportunity to collaborate with the Nonprofit Finance Fund on developing a long-term financial plan for their projects.
Funding Information
- Digital Justice Seed Grants
- Amount: between $10,000 and $25,000 Grant
- Digital Justice Development Grants
- Amount: between $50,000 and $100,000
- Grant terms must begin between July 1, 2025 and December 31, 2025, with a workplan that lasts from 12-18 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible:
- At least one of the project’s principal investigators must be a scholar in the humanities and/or the interpretative social sciences.
- Projects must demonstrate evidence of significant preliminary work as well as a record of engagement and impact with scholarly and/or public audiences.
- Projects must be made as widely available as intellectual property constraints allow, ideally with the most liberal open-source and Creative Commons license that is appropriate for the underlying content.
- An institution of higher education in the United States must administer any awarded grant funds.
For more information, visit ACLS.
