Project Grant 1678007072

The Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco will implement a youth arts fellowship program called "Generation Chinatown" under a $117,020 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301). The fellowship will deepen 7-10 multiethnic high school students' creative skills and civic leadership abilities through workshops, public art projects, and engagement with Chinatown residents to explore issues of place,...

The federal Project Grant award of $150,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) supports the "Transmission Regained: Recalling Traditional Lifeways through Intergenerational Oral History in the 'World's Borough' Queens" project. This initiative invites young people in the diverse student body of LaGuardia Community College, part of the Research Foundation of the City University of New...

The Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco received a $100,110 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program to create a seven-month exhibition titled "Xianrui: Cathy Lu" and a community youth engagement program. The exhibition and programming will explore topics relevant to the state of Asian American identity and xenophobia facing the community. The Chinese Culture Center will co-design the programming...

The Kidzu Children's Museum in Chapel Hill, North Carolina was awarded a $425,998 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. This 3-year grant, effective September 1, 2023, will enable the museum to develop a framework for supporting refugee communities, including regular family programming, a skills-development volunteer program for teenage refugees, and a best practices toolkit. The project aims to serve 300...

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded $117,500 under the Public Diplomacy Programs federal grant to Kunsthauswien GMBH. The funding supports Kunsthauswien's invitation of four American and US-based artists—Alia Ali, Nakeya Brown, Pixy Liao, and Carmen Winant—to showcase their works at the Photo Festival Foto Wien from March 5 to March 31, 2022. The Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) aims to support U.S. foreign policy goals through civic engagement and...

The Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center will relaunch its Teen Arts Council program to address critical needs in arts education and the social-emotional impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on youth. Funded by a $108,420 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the National Leadership Grants program, the Teen Arts Council empowers teens to create and plan arts programs for their peers. It will use strategies such as diversity, supportive staff, authentic work...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $181,039 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum Inc. The grant will support "Under One Roof: Teaching Immigration and Black History Through the NYC Tenements," a new series of two one-week, residential workshops for 60 middle and high school educators. These workshops, to be held at the Tenement Museum in New York City in July...

This $946,152 Project Grant award from the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs under the Services for Trafficking Victims program (CFDA 16.320) will fund the "Steps to Success" project implemented by Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE) and the Heal Refugee Health and Asylum Collaborative (HEAL). The project will provide trauma-informed, person-centered services to 100 Spanish-speaking, foreign-born, labor and sex trafficking survivors aged 15-25 in Maryland. Key services...

The Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco, doing business as the Chinese Culture Center, received a $146,555 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America program. The grant will support the expansion of the Center's "41 Ross Artist-in-Residence" program, located at the Center's offsite storefront space in San Francisco's Chinatown. Key activities include selecting three artists for three-month residencies, organizing public...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $249,400 Project Grant to the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) through the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian (LB21) program (CFDA 45.313). The grant will fund the expansion of AMIA's Pathways Fellowship program, which provides paid internships, mentorship, and professional development training to support career pathways into media preservation for individuals from underrepresented groups, including BIPOC, LGBTQIA+,...