Take a look at the newest federal grants! Another reentry initiative is being released and this one focuses on improving the strategies that address policies and procedures for successful reentry. The National Endowment for the Humanities is providing funding to strengthens efforts to extend the life of important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture, and digital objects and to make their intellectual content widely accessible, often through the use of digital technology.
Bureau of Justice Assistance
Grant Title: BJA FY 18 Innovations in Reentry Initiative: Reducing Recidivism Through Systems Improvement
Grant Info: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=305592
Details: The goal of the Innovations in Reentry Project is to support jurisdictions to identify, coordinate, develop and implement comprehensive and collaborative strategies that address policies and procedures for successful reentry. Improving systems that result in an increase in public safety and reduction in recidivism for individuals reentering communities from incarceration who are at moderate to high risk for recidivating. Within the context of this initiative, reentry is not envisioned to be a specific program, but rather a process that includes systems and policies that begin when the individual is first incarcerated (pre-release) and ends with his or her successful community reintegration and reduction in risk of recidivism (post-release).
National Endowment for the Humanities
Grant Title: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Grant Info: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=305536
Details: The Humanities Collections and Reference Resources (HCRR) program supports projects that provide an essential underpinning for scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities. Thousands of libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country maintain important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture, and digital objects. Funding from this program strengthens efforts to extend the life of such materials and make their intellectual content widely accessible, often through the use of digital technology. Awards are also made to create various reference resources that facilitate use of cultural materials, from works that provide basic information quickly to tools that synthesize and codify knowledge of a subject for in-depth investigation. HCRR offers two kinds of awards: 1) for implementation and 2) for planning, assessment, and pilot efforts (HCRR Foundations awards).