ACLS Digital Justice Seed and Development Grants 2026-2027 – YOA

Deadline: November 3, 2026

Applications are invited for the ACLS Digital Justice Seed and Development Grants 2026-2027. Generously funded by the Mellon Foundation, this program helps digital tasks throughout the humanities and social sciences that critically interact with the pursuits and histories of individuals of shade and different traditionally marginalized communities by way of the moral use of digital instruments and strategies.

The program seeks to handle the inequities within the distribution of entry to instruments and assist for digital work amongst students throughout varied fields, these working with underneath-utilized or understudied supply supplies, and these in establishments with much less assist for digital tasks. It promotes inclusion and sustainability by extending the OPPORTUNITY to take part within the digital transformation of humanistic inquiry to a higher variety of humanities students and tasks. Additionally, all grant recipients can obtain common monetary planning teaching from the Nonprofit Finance Fund to plan for the lengthy-time period stewardship and sustainability of their tasks.

Grant

The program affords two sorts of grants:

• Digital Justice Seed Grants for begin-up tasks, starting from $10,000-$25,000
• Digital Justice Development Grants, starting from $50,000-$100,000, for tasks which have superior past the proof-of-idea section

Eligibility

Project’s principal investigator have to be a scholar within the humanities and/or the interpretative social sciences.

• Projects have to be made as extensively out there as mental property constraints permit, ideally with essentially the most liberal open-supply and Creative Commons license that’s acceptable for the underlying content material.
• An establishment of upper training within the United States should administer any awarded grant funds.
• For Seed Grants: Project have to be throughout the begin-up or prototyping section of improvement.
• For Development Grants: Projects should reveal proof of great preliminary work in addition to a document of engagement and impression with scholarly and/or public audiences.

Application

Completed purposes have to be submitted no later than 5:00 PM EST on November 3, 2026.

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For extra info, go to ACLS Digital Justice Seed and Development Grants.