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    <AgencyName>National Endowment for the Humanities</AgencyName>
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          <Email>info@neh.gov</Email>
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        <Address>1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20506</Address>
        <Phone>202-606-8400</Phone>
        <Phone2>800-634-1121</Phone2>
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            <NameColumnValue>William D. Adams</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Chairman</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Carole Watson</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Brett Bobley</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Michael McDonald</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Laura M.H. Davis</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Courtney Chapin</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Judy Havemann</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Evagren O. Caldera</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Jeffrey Thomas</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Adam Wolfson</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>John Gleason</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Barry Maynes</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>William C. Rice</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Nadina Gardner</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Karen Mittelman</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Jane Aikin</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Carol Peters</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Director, EDSITEment Partnership</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Edythe Manza</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Director, Federal/State Partnership</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Tanya Peltz</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Director, Information Resource Management</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Andrea Anderson, Acting</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Brett Bobley</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Director, Office of Digital Humanities</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Robert Straughter, Acting</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Anthony Mitchell</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Director, Office of Human Resources</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Larry Myers</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Director, Office of Planning and Budget</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>David Skinner</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Director, Office of Publications</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Carole Watson</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Director, We the People Program</TitleColumnValue>
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        <Paragraph MissionStatmentId="94" SortOrder="1">The National Endowment for the Humanities supports research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>According to the agency's authorizing legislation, the term "humanities" includes, but is not limited to, the study of the following: language, both modern and classical; linguistics; literature; history; jurisprudence; philosophy; archeology; comparative religion; ethics; the history, criticism, and theory of the arts; and those aspects of the social sciences that employ historical or philosophical approaches.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>To increase understanding and appreciation of the humanities, the Endowment makes grants to individuals, groups, or institutions: schools, colleges, universities, museums, public television stations, libraries, public agencies, and nonprofit private groups.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Bridging Cultures Initiative</Heading>
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                <Footer>For further information, call 202-606-8337.</Footer>
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              <Paragraph>This initiative encourages projects that explore the ways in which cultures around the globe, as well as the many subcultures within America’s borders, have influenced American society.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Challenge Grants</Heading>
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                <Email/>
                <Footer>For further information, call 202-606-8309.</Footer>
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              <Paragraph>Nonprofit institutions interested in developing new sources of long-term support for educational, scholarly, preservation, and public programs in the humanities may be assisted in these efforts by a challenge grant.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Digital Humanities</Heading>
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                <Email>odh@neh.gov</Email>
                <Footer>For further information, call 202-606-8401.</Footer>
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              <Paragraph>The Office of Digital Humanities encourages and supports projects that use or study the impact of digital technology on education, preservation, public programming, and research in the humanities.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Education</Heading>
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                <Email/>
                <Footer>For further information, call 202-606-8500.</Footer>
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              <Paragraph>Through grants to educational institutions and fellowships to scholars and teachers, this division strengthens sustained thoughtful study of the humanities at all levels of education.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Federal and State Partnership</Heading>
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                <Footer>For further information, call 202-606-8254.</Footer>
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              <Paragraph>Humanities committees in each of the 50 States, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and Guam receive grants from the Endowment, which they in turn grant to support humanities programs at the local level.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Preservation and Access</Heading>
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                <Email/>
                <Footer>For further information, call 202-606-8570.</Footer>
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              <Paragraph>This division supports projects that will create, preserve, and increase the availability of resources important for research, education, and public programming in the humanities.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Public Programs</Heading>
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                <Email/>
                <Footer>For further information, call 202-606-8268.</Footer>
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              <Paragraph>This division strives to fulfill the Endowment's mandate "to increase public understanding of the humanities" by supporting those institutions and organizations that develop and present humanities programming for general audiences.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Research</Heading>
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                <Footer>For further information, call 202-606-8389.</Footer>
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              <Paragraph>This division promotes original research in the humanities by providing grants for significant research projects.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>We the People Program</Heading>
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                <Email/>
                <Footer>For further information, call 202-606-8235.</Footer>
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              <Paragraph>This program is designed to encourage and enhance the teaching, study, and understanding of American history, culture, and democratic principles.</Paragraph>
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          <WebAddress>https://www.usajobs.gov/</WebAddress>
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        <Header>Employment</Header>
        <Paragraph>National Endowment for the Humanities job vacancies are posted online at USAJOBS.</Paragraph>
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          <WebAddress>http://www.grants.gov</WebAddress>
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        <Header>Grants</Header>
        <Paragraph>Those interested in applying for a humanities grant should visit www.neh.gov for information and guidelines related to grant programs offered by the National Endowment for the Humanities. For further information, call 202-606-8400. Applications for grants must be submitted online using the link below.</Paragraph>
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        <Header>Publications</Header>
        <Paragraph>The Endowment’s bimonthly review, "Humanities", is available by subscription ($24 domestic, $33.60 foreign) through the U.S. Government Printing Office, P.O. Box 979050,  St. Louis, MO 63197–9000, or by phone at 202-512-1800.</Paragraph>
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      <Footer>For further information, contact the Office of Communications, National Endowment for the Humanities, Room 510, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20506. Phone, 202-606-8400 or 800-634-1121. TDD, 202-606-8282 or 866-372-2930.</Footer>
      <Email>info@neh.gov</Email>
      <WebAddress>http://www.neh.gov</WebAddress>
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