Project Grant 18873405522

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 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 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 Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco (CCC) received a $115,521 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) on March 1, 2024. The grant funds the Chinatown Cultural Resilience Project, which aims to inventory, collect, and make accessible place-based intangible cultural assets in San Francisco's Chinatown via oral histories and multimedia records. This cultural assets and safeguarding planning project...

The Museum of Chinese in the Americas was awarded a $150,000 Project Grant by the National Archives and Records Administration under the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003) to digitize and make available 150 oral histories from 11 oral history collections documenting the lived experiences of Chinese Americans across the United States. The collections include oral histories on topics such as Chinese American identity, communities like Chinatown and Sunset...

This federal Project Grant award of $300,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) supports the Chinatown History Project in Los Angeles. The project will leverage a cache of historic photographs and augmented reality tools to virtually reconstruct the Chinatown neighborhood that was demolished in the 1930s to make way for Union Station. The project will combine historical research and multimedia elements to allow users...

The Museum of Chinese in the Americas (MOCA) was awarded a $149,400 Project Grant from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003). The grant, with a performance period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026, supports MOCA's efforts to preserve, digitize, and provide public access to historical records and documentary sources related to Chinese American history. Key activities include digitizing...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $169,101 project grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130) to the Wing Luke Memorial Foundation, also known as the Wing Luke Asian Museum, located in Seattle, Washington. The purpose of this grant is to preserve and restore the historic Eng Family Homestead structure near the museum's location in the Chinatown-International District. This will allow the museum to expand its humanities offerings,...

This federal Project Grant award of $110,000.00, awarded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs on October 15, 2024, supports the "Building Bridges Through Shared Interests US China Value and Cultural Exchange Events" project implemented by the American Chamber of Commerce in the People's Republic of China (AmCham China). The grant, provided under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) federal grant program, is intended to facilitate cultural,...

This federal Project Grant award of $150,000 from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs (CFDA 19.040 Public Diplomacy Programs) supports the "Rebuilding US-China Educational Connectivity" project conducted by the F.Y. Chang Foundation, doing business as the US China Education Trust (USCET). The project aims to help revitalize US-China education ties by creating opportunities for the resumption of exchanges between American and Chinese students,...