Special Encouragement
In accordance with Executive Orders 13256 and 13270, issued in 2002 to help strengthen and ensure the long-term viability of the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Tribal Colleges and Universities, NEH especially welcomes challenge grant applications from these institutions. NEH also especially welcomes applications from two-year colleges. Certain requirements of regular challenge grants are modified for HBCUs, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and two-year colleges: grantees must raise two (instead of three) dollars from third parties for every dollar of NEH funding that is released, and they may take six (instead of five) years to raise the money from third parties.
Guidelines URL: www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/challenge.html

CH-20693, Oglala Lakota College:
Woonspe Okolakiciye (The Knowledge Team).
Founded in 1971, Oglala Lakota College is a tribally controlled college on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota. Both Wounded Knee and the Badlands are located on the reservation, which is home to about 20,000 Oglala Lakota (Sioux). Oglala Lakota College offers a wide range of educational opportunities that prepare students to understand both the larger society and the customs and beliefs of the Lakota people. The college received a $500,000 challenge grant in 2000, to support its mission by endowing professorships in Lakota Studies and the Lakota language.  The college successfully met the NEH challenge by raising $92,380 more than was required.
Project URL: www.olc.edu/