ACLS Digital Justice Development Grants - American Council of Learned Societies
Funds digital humanities projects using ethical methods to advance scholarship on marginalized communities and promote inclusion, capacity building, and sustainability.
Funder: American Council of Learned Societies
Due Dates (Anticipated): November 2026
Funding Amounts: $50,000–$100,000 per award; project duration 12–18 months
Summary: Supports digital projects advancing scholarship on marginalized communities, emphasizing ethical digital methods, inclusion, and capacity building in the humanities.
Description
The program provides funding for digital projects that critically engage with the interests and histories of people of color and other historically marginalized communities through ethical use of digital tools and methods. Designed for projects moving beyond the prototyping or proof-of-concept stage, the grant helps teams articulate the next financial, technological, and intellectual development phases. The initiative encourages openness to new sources of knowledge, strategic content building, and knowledge dissemination, as well as capacity building through pedagogical initiatives, public engagement, and collaboration across institutions. Projects should address inequities in digital scholarship and support inclusion and sustainability in the digital transformation of humanistic inquiry. Awardees also receive financial planning coaching to help envision long-term support for their projects.
