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NEH - Challenge Grants

Internal Competition Completed

Principal Investigators Selected:

Sara Hall, Germanic Studies

Program Summary

NEH challenge grants are capacity-building grants, intended to help institutions and organizations secure long-term improvements in and support for their humanities programs and resources. Grants may be used to establish or enhance endowments or spend-down funds (that is, funds that are invested, with both the income and the principal being expended over a defined period of years) that generate expendable earnings to support ongoing program activities. Grantees may also use funds for one-time capital expenditures (such as construction and renovation, purchase of equipment, and acquisitions) that bring long-term benefits to the institution and to the humanities more broadly.

UIC is restricted to one application.

Additional Information
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/challenge.html#program

Deadlines

UIC Internal Letter of Intent (Mandatory)	March 1, 2011
UIC Internal Competition (If necessary)	TBD
Sponsor Letter of Intent	NA
Sponsor Full Proposal	May 4, 2011

Letter of Intent

Depending upon the number of LOIs submitted, OVCR might be required to facilitate an internal peer review process to select UIC’s submission(s) to this program. White paper instructions will be posted if necessary.

eLOI Form & Instructions – Adobe Acrobat Requirements

Download the file directly to your computer or to a disk, right click on the link, then select "save link as" or "save target as" from the dropdown options.
Open eLOI.
Position the hand pointer inside a form field and click.

To accept the field change and go to the next field, press Tab or use your mouse to click on the next form field.
To accept the field change and go to the previous field, press Shift + Tab or use your mouse to click on the previous form field.

Complete the form fields.
After completing the form, click “Save” then click “Submit to RDS@uic.edu”.

Letter of Intent (LOI): eLOI Form (Fillable PDF*)

*Please note:

Fields highlighted in red are required to successfully submit the form.
Do not print then submit scanned version of e-LOI via email.

Please contact Tony Halford at ahalford@uic.edu or 6-7036 with any questions

If an authorized principal investigator is not listed above, please consider the limited competition still open. Contact RDS@uic.edu for further information.