Cooperative Agreement P13AP00025

The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) received a $444,426 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service Intermountain Region under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) program. Through this grant, UC Berkeley will conserve and digitize an archive of Japanese-language literary journals published at the Tule Lake Segregation Center during World War II. The university will establish a consultative...

The Wing Luke Memorial Foundation received a $180,407 Project Grant from the National Park Service's Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) program to design and fabricate a new permanent exhibition at the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience. The exhibition will tell the broader history of the Japanese American World War II incarceration experience using personal stories and archival research, with a focus on the Puyallup Detention Facility and...

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...

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...

The Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (JACCC) was awarded a $390,737 Project Grant under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) program by the Department of the Interior National Park Service Intermountain Region. The grant will fund research and interpretation of the foodways and agricultural practices of Japanese Americans incarcerated in War Relocation Authority (WRA) camps during World War II. Key project activities include: Developing iconic...

The National Park Service, through the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program (CFDA 15.933), awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to the Puyallup Valley Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League. The grant will support the creation of a permanent exhibit at the Washington State Fair in Puyallup, Washington, to educate visitors about the 7,600 Japanese and Japanese Americans who were incarcerated at the Puyallup Assembly Center during World War II. The exhibit will...

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...

The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) in Los Angeles, CA received a $626,478 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) program. The funding will support JANM's efforts to create a new permanent multi-gallery exhibition centered around a historic barrack from the Heart Mountain Relocation Center. This will include conserving, reinstalling, reimagining, protecting, and...

The Department of the Interior National Park Service Intermountain Region awarded Densho, a nonprofit organization, a $476,743.00 Project Grant under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933). The grant will support Densho's efforts to preserve and interpret the history of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Specifically, Densho will undertake a major update of the Densho Encyclopedia, an important online resource providing accurate...

This $189,575 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will support two one-week workshops for educators to learn about the Japanese American incarceration during World War II. The workshops will utilize faculty members from the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation staff as well as outside experts. The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, a non-profit organization, operates the Heart...