Cooperative Agreement F16AC00179

The U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service awarded a $440,226 Project Grant under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) program to Camera News, Inc. dba Third World Newsreel. This grant will fund the production of a hybrid documentary film titled "They Took My Father Too" that tells the story of a Japanese American family separated by the detention of the father at the Tuna Canyon Detention Station during World War II. The documentary will...

This federal Project Grant award of $300,000 was provided by the Department of the Interior's National Park Service Intermountain Region under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933). The funding will support Visual Communications Media, a non-profit media arts organization, to produce a 30-minute narrative film called "The Camera" that explores the intergenerational trauma and ongoing impacts of the Japanese American incarceration during World War...

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 Department of the Navy, through its Secretary of the Navy and Chief of Naval Operations, awarded a $450,000 block grant to the American Veterans Center. The grant was awarded under the Congressionally Directed Assistance program (CFDA 12.599) to support a project commemorating the 75th anniversary of World War II between October 1, 2021 and January 21, 2022. The Congressionally Directed Assistance program funds Congressional priorities through assistance instruments awarded by the Department...

The Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum will receive $2,044,017 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Save America's Treasures federal grant program (CFDA 15.929) to conduct preservation activities for the USS Bowfin submarine from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023. The Museum, operating as the USS Bowfin Submarine Museum and Park, will drydock the submarine—a key artifact from World War II's Pacific fleet—after towing it from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Preservation work will...

The Densho Project was awarded a $382,925 Project Grant by the National Park Service under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) program. The grant will fund a two-year initiative by the Seattle-based nonprofit organization to strengthen its capacity for conducting oral history interviews and preserving narratives related to the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. Specifically, Densho will launch a comprehensive oral history training program to...

This $450,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) under the Environmental Studies (ES) program (CFDA 15.423) will support the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography in conducting an offshore survey of Guam's World War II submerged battlefield. The 2-year project, running from September 2024 to September 2026, will leverage Scripps' expertise and specialized facilities to carry out comprehensive mapping, exploration,...

The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) was awarded a $978,044 Project Grant from the National Park Service under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) program. The grant will fund the redesign of JANM's core exhibition titled "In the Future We Call Now: Realities of Racism, Dreams of Democracy." The new exhibition will be the country's largest and most comprehensive exhibition focused on sharing the experiences of Japanese American communities...

This Project Grant award from the National Park Service's American Battlefield Protection Program (CFDA 15.926) will provide $129,300.00 to The Society of the Cincinnati to develop an exhibition that interprets several key battles of the American Revolutionary War (1770-1783) through the diverse lived experiences of participants. The exhibition, titled "Voices of Revolution," will focus on the Siege of Yorktown, Battle of Monmouth, Siege of Savannah, Battle of Brandywine, Young's...

The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation received a $224,892 Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior National Park Service under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933). The grant will support the creation and installation of a permanent exhibit at the Mineta-Simpson Institute at Heart Mountain, highlighting the decades-long friendship between former Congressmen Norman Y. Mineta and Alan K. Simpson, who first met as Boy Scouts at the Heart...