The National Endowment for the Humanities serves and strengthens our nation by supporting high-quality projects and programs in the humanities and by making the humanities available to all Americans.
The overarching goals of the Research and Development program are to support projects that tackle significant issues related to the preservation and accessibility of humanities collections and resources. The program encourages projects that seek innovative methods for preserving materials crucial to cultural heritage and improving the ways these materials are organized, searched, discovered, and used. This supports a broad cause of maintaining and enhancing accessibility to humanities collections for educational and cultural enrichment.