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Private
American Library Association (Publishing Committee) · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 6, 2026 · 28 days left
- Award
- Up to $5,000
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
Grants up to $5,000 to make reading lists, indexes, web guides, or other guides to library resources. Libraries, groups, and individuals can apply. Proposals are due November 6, 2026.
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Private
The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 12, 2026 · 3 days left
- Award
- Up to $1,000
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ! Only 3 days left to apply
Schools and colleges that teach Japanese can get up to $1,000 for textbooks and teaching materials. The grant pays back costs after purchase. Laptops and other electronics are not covered.
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Local
South Arts · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 20, 2026 · 42 days left
- Award
- $1,000 – $10K
Pilot grants for arts journalism and cultural coverage: travel grants for reporting trips, grants to individual arts journalists, and larger grants to media outlets that hire them. Applicants must live in or be headquartered in a South Arts state such as...
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Federal
Institute of Museum and Library Services · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 13, 2026 · 35 days left
- Award
- $25K – $1M
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ! Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
- i Past Tennessee awards on file: 14
National Leadership Grants for Libraries (NLG-L) projects enhance the quality of library services nationwide. The program supports projects that: promote adult reading, and health and financial literacies; focus on programming and archival practices...
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Federal
Institute of Museum and Library Services · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 13, 2026 · 35 days left
- Award
- $5,000 – $350K
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ! Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
- i Past Tennessee awards on file: 18
he Museums for America (MFA) program invests in museums of all sizes – from small to large – and disciplines in project-based efforts to serve the public through educational programs and exhibits, community partnerships, and collections stewardship activities.
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Federal
Institute of Museum and Library Services · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 13, 2026 · 35 days left
- Award
- $50K – $750K
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ! Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
- i Past Tennessee awards on file: 14
The National Leadership Grants for Museums program (NLG-M) invests in projects that address critical needs of the museum field. NLG-M projects have the potential to advance practice in the profession to strengthen museum services for the public through the...
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Federal
Institute of Museum and Library Services · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 13, 2026 · 35 days left
- Award
- $5,000 – $350K
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ! Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
- i Past Tennessee awards on file: 18
Museums Empowered: Professional Development Opportunities for Museum Staff is a special initiative of the Museums for America grant program, designed to support projects that use learning and training to generate change and growth within museums of all...
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Foundation
Wyeth Foundation for American Art · Opening soon
- Deadline
- Opens Oct 15, 2026 · due Dec 15, 2026
- Award
- $5,000 – $25K
Should we apply? · Get ready
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
Grants for museums and other nonprofits doing research, exhibitions, catalogues or conservation of historic American art. Grants are usually $5,000 to $25,000. Art of the last 30 years and living artists are not funded.
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Local
Henry County Helping Hand, Inc. · Opening soon
- Deadline
- Opens Oct 12, 2026 · due Nov 13, 2026
- Award
- Amount not specified
Should we apply? · Get ready
- ! Local program: Henry County
Henry County's yearly radio auction gives its proceeds to local groups. Nonprofits, schools, colleges, local government and fire departments in Henry County can apply online. The window is October 12 to November 13, 2026.
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Corporate
Main Street America · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 15, 2026 · 6 days left
- Award
- Amount not specified
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ! Only 6 days left to apply
Grants that help rural Main Street programs find and promote local science history and assets. Only Main Street America accredited or affiliate programs in towns of 50,000 people or fewer, with budgets under $1 million, can apply.
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Federal
National Park Service · Department of the Interior · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 4, 2026 · 26 days left
- Award
- $10K – $50K
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
Goal: Encourage outdoor recreation and natural, historical, and cultural tourism that expands access to and awareness of the Chesapeake Bay watershed and fosters economic development of communities.ObjectivesNPS Chesapeake Gateways is offering this...
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Federal
Bureau of Justice Assistance · Department of Justice · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 29, 2026 · 20 days left
- Award
- Up to $2.5M
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
- i Past Tennessee awards on file: 3
This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the BJA FY2026 Veterans Treatment Court Program. This opportunity supports the implementation and enhancement of veterans’ treatment court (VTC) operations to reduce the use of opioids, stimulants, and...
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Federal
U.S. National Science Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 20, 2026 · 11 days left
- Award
- Amount not specified
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
- ! Only 11 days left to apply
- i Past Tennessee awards on file: 628
The Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Excellence in Research (HBCU-EiR) program was established in response to direction provided in the Senate Commerce and Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee Report (Senate...
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Foundation
Simons Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 12, 2026 · 34 days left
- Award
- Up to $7.5M
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
Five-year research and training centers at HBCUs in math, neuroscience, physics, or ecology and evolution. Each center can get up to $1.5 million a year.
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Federal
Office of Naval Research · Department of Defense · Open
- Deadline
- Due Dec 11, 2026 · 63 days left
- Award
- $450K – $525K
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
- i Past Tennessee awards on file: 51
Key programmatic objectives of the DoN HBCU/MI Program are achieved through the implementation and performance of three program goals:
• enhancing the research and educational capabilities of HBCU/MIs in scientific and engineering disciplines critical to...
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Foundation
Wenner-Gren Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 15, 2026 · 6 days left
- Award
- Up to $80K
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
- ! Only 6 days left to apply
Gives $80,000 for nine months of writing a book on anthropology for general readers. Applicants need an anthropology PhD earned within 15 years. Independent scholars are encouraged to apply.
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Private
American Philosophical Society · Open
- Deadline
- Due Dec 1, 2026 · 53 days left
- Award
- Up to $7,000
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
Pays research costs like travel to archives, fieldwork, and lab supplies. Scholars need a doctorate or published work of that level; independent scholars may apply. Grants go up to $7,000 and are paid to the person.
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Private
Harry Ransom Center (University of Texas at Austin) · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 6, 2026 · 28 days left
- Award
- $2,000 – $7,000
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
Funds research visits to the Ransom Center's literature, art, and film archives in Austin. Fellowships pay up to $3,500 a month; travel stipends are smaller. Independent researchers such as journalists and artists may apply.
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Private
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 26, 2026 · 17 days left
- Award
- Up to $3,000
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
Gives $3,000 research fellowships in American history. Doctoral candidates, college faculty and independent scholars can apply. Fellows research in New York archives such as the Gilder Lehrman Collection.
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Foundation
The Teagle Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- Due Dec 1, 2026 · 53 days left
- Award
- Up to $300K
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
Helps colleges rebuild general education around great humanities texts. Planning grants up to $25,000 and implementation grants up to $300,000 are offered. Start with a short concept paper.
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