Project Grant 18951965522

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to Young Aspirations/Young Artists, Inc. to support personnel and marketing expenses from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. The grant funding will allow Young Aspirations/Young Artists, Inc. to deliver programs that promote the arts and arts education in Louisiana as part of the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). This program supports opportunities for community...

This $1.5M Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants (CFDA 45.312) program will enable the Ashe Cultural Arts Center and its 19 partner Alliance for Cultural Equity institutions to address structural disparities in support for locally-based arts and cultural organizations in Louisiana. Over the 3-year grant period from September 2023 to August 2026, the project will launch an outreach and education campaign to advocate for...

This $498,763 federal Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program will enable City Lore Inc., a New York-based non-profit cultural organization, to create exhibitions and programming focused on immigrant communities. The exhibitions will explore topics such as women in blues, Cuban music, J'Ouvert festival traditions, and LGBTQ+ house ballroom culture, and will be held in locations across New York,...

This Project Grant award in the amount of $106,050 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports a conference and related activities to increase proposal development capacity at institutions of higher education (IHEs) in the EPSCoR jurisdictions of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The key products and services to be delivered include: (1) conducting a 50-participant proposal development workshop to demystify NSF funding mechanisms and the...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $449,534 to the University of Hawaii at Manoa to document endangered languages through training and capacity building in diaspora communities. The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) Producing richly annotated, multipurpose language documentation materials to serve as the foundation for grammatical studies; 2) Conducting targeted studies of...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) provides $189,899.00 to support a six-day, two-week residential workshop titled "A Sense of Place: Architecture, Culture, and History in the Arkansas Delta." The workshop will bring together 60 teachers from across the United States in grades 6-12 to learn about the important architectural, cultural, and historical...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to the New Orleans Center For Creative Arts Foundation (doing business as The Nocca Institute) from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023. The funding supports personnel and facilities expenses to aid in response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant falls under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024), which aims to support opportunities for arts participation and...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $186,587 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to Tulane University. The grant, titled "BVLBANCHA RISING: LOUISIANA LANDMARKS AND CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGES," will fund two week-long workshops in June 2025 that invite 20 higher education and humanities practitioners to explore coastal Louisiana cultural landmarks threatened by climate change, biodiversity loss, and...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) provides $341,949 to the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation (FAIC) to build teaching capacity and improve equitable access to climate resilience resources for cultural heritage organizations. The key products and services to be delivered under this two-year award include: evaluating and improving existing climate resilience...

This federal Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior National Park Service Alaska Region under the Pacific Northwest and Hawaiian Islands Arts program (CFDA 15.071) provides $243,457.40 to the Goldbelt Heritage Foundation to establish programs that promote the scholarly study and instruction of Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian arts and culture. Over 4 years, the grant will fund the creation of two traditional Tlingit dugout canoes by 300 Southeastern Alaskan youth in grades...