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This federal Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior's Office of Insular Affairs, under the Economic, Social, and Political Development of the Territories program (CFDA 15.875), provides $149,242.25 to the Office of the Governor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) to plan and execute the 80th Commemoration of the Battle of Saipan and Tinian in 2024. The funding will enable CNMI to organize a four-month commemorative event, primarily focused on June 15,...

The National Park Service awarded a $628,613.85 American Battlefield Protection Program (CFDA 15.926) Project Grant to the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum to conduct primary source research, collect oral histories, and perform a GIS survey of the Ford Island Naval Air Station. The goal is to better understand the impacts and aftermath of the Japanese attack on the naval air station on December 7, 1941, and to develop and implement an interpretive plan for the site. This grant supports the...

The National Park Service (NPS) awarded a $263,860 Cooperative Agreement under the Cultural Resources Management program (CFDA 15.946) to The National World War II Museum, Inc. in New Orleans, LA. The award period runs from August 9, 2024 to September 1, 2027. The Cooperative Agreement will fund a range of research, operational, and educational activities related to cultural resource stewardship and preservation of World War II-related historical, archaeological, and cultural sites,...

This Project Grant award of $299,420 from the National Endowment for the Humanities will support development of the "WWI Memorial Virtual Explorer App" by the United States Foundation For The Commemoration Of The World Wars, also known as The Doughboy Foundation, from March 2021 through February 2024. The app will allow users to place an augmented reality 3D model of the National World War I Memorial in their own space and explore curated historical content about World War I and its...

This $881,800 Project Grant from the Department of the Interior National Park Service will fund repairs and restoration work at the historic Ford Island Control Tower and surrounding buildings at the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum in Hawaii. $440,900 in matching funds will be provided by the Museum. Work will be completed between October 2022 and September 2025. The grant is part of the Save America's Treasures federal program (CFDA 15.929), which provides matching funds for preservation and...

The Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum, doing business as the Kalamazoo Air Zoo, was awarded a $1,301,880 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Save America's Treasures federal grant program (CFDA 15.929). The grant will support restoration of a Douglas SBD-1 Dauntless WWII warplane (serial number 1612) recovered from Lake Michigan for museum exhibition and educational purposes over a three-year period from October 2022 through September 2025. Museum...

This $311,819 Project Grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration (CFDA 64.204 - Veterans Legacy Grants Program) will fund Kennesaw State University Research And Service Foundation, Inc.'s K-12 educational outreach initiative, the Veterans Legacy Program. The project will mentor and supervise undergraduate students as they collect oral history interviews from family members of World War II veterans interred in Georgia veteran cemeteries who participated in...

The National World War I Museum and Memorial (National WWI Museum and Memorial) was awarded a $727,233 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (MFA) program (CFDA 45.301). The project will digitize over 1,500 objects from the museum's collection, including posters, maps, camp newspapers, and oral histories, and make them publicly accessible through the museum's online collections database. The project will reduce the need for...

This federal Project Grant award from the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration's Veterans Legacy Grants Program (CFDA 64.204) provides $320,861.20 to National History Day Inc., a non-profit organization, to implement the "Silent Heroes: Untold Stories from the Korean War" educational initiative. The project will leverage National History Day's network of teachers and students nationwide to identify Korean War-era veterans interred in nearby veterans...

The National Park Service awarded a $129,300 Project Grant under the American Battlefield Protection Program (CFDA 15.926) to the Society of the Cincinnati, a nonprofit organization, to develop an exhibition interpreting the lived experiences of diverse participants in the American Revolutionary War (1770-1783). The project, titled "Voices of Revolution," will portray the stories of individuals on different sides of the conflict, focusing on key battles such as the Siege of...