Deadline: 1 July 2025
The Enduring Impacts Request for Proposals focuses on the study of archaeological and related interdisciplinary data for the purposes of increasing the understanding of human-environmental interactions over time and to ultimately contribute to mitigating contemporary environmental crises.
This funding opportunity seeks projects focused on the archaeology of sustainable communities and landscapes in changing climates. As sustainability is variable across different places and times, proposals should outline what the term means in the context of the project and what proxies will be used to study it.
Proposals for both research and conservation projects will be considered. Projects should aim to not only produce excellent scholarship and peer-reviewed outputs but also be significantly impactful to present-day stakeholders.
Competitive projects will have positive, measurable, and sustainable benefits that may include strengthening community land tenure or resource rights, empowering connections with traditional foodways and other heritage, and/or helping to support transmission of ecological knowledge and practices.
Benefits
- All grant recipients will join their Explorer Community and gain access to training courses, software tools, equipment loans, and other resources.
Funding Information
- Proposals may request up to $50,000 USD in funding.
Eligible Projects
- Competitive proposals for this RfP consist of projects that:
- Are scientifically rigorous and interdisciplinary;
- Seek stakeholding community buy-in from the outset of the project;
- Integrate community knowledge systems where applicable, appropriate, and with due care for ethical protocols and intellectual property rights;
- Produce archaeological and/or environmental datasets that can be used in the creation of, or advocacy for, solutions to contemporary environmental issues in collaboration with local communities and/or policymakers.
- Incorporate a robust capacity development or capacity sharing component.
- Delineate how the project’s results will be disseminated and used to create culturally and environmentally suitable conservation strategies at the policy level and/or collaborate with local communities to empower, reinvigorate, or build sustainable environmental practices to strengthen resilience in the face of climate change.
- Demonstrate plans for evaluating the impact of the proposed work.
Eligibility Criteria
- This opportunity, awarded at the Level II funding level, is best suited for individual project leaders with demonstrable experience co-creating or collaborating with the stakeholder community(ies) of the proposed study site.
- Applicants must be 18 or older at the time they submit their application.
- Previous National Geographic Explorers as well as those new to their community are welcome to apply.
For more information, visit National Geographic Society.
