Project Grant 19051583623

The Department of the Interior National Park Service National Office awarded $380,850 under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program (CFDA 15.904) to Project We Hope, Dream, and Believe on September 1, 2021 for the restoration and preservation of the Malcolm X House in Inkster, Michigan. The goal of the project grant funding is to convert the home, also known as the Wilfred and Ruth Little Home, into a museum highlighting Malcolm X's civil rights work. The Historic Preservation...

This federal Project Grant award for $600,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) will support the production of a documentary film with the working title "ADELANTE!" The film will serve as a biographical portrait of the influential Chicano playwright, activist, and director Luis Valdez, exploring the history and significance of Chicano identity through the lens of Valdez's pioneering theatrical company El...

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program, provides $260,952 to the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation to continue the Alvin Ailey Choreographic Legacy Project. The Project will historically preserve choreography from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater repertory for restaging by professional dance companies and universities through cataloging production notes, performance histories, and...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded Firelight Media Inc., a non-profit organization that supports and develops non-fiction filmmakers of color, a $700,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) funding opportunity. The grant will support the production of a documentary film titled "Sun Ra and the Roots of Afrofuturism" that will be broadcast as part of PBS' American Masters series. The film will explore the life and...

This federal Project Grant award of $200,000.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) will support a series of programming titled "Harlem as an Incubator" from October 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026. The programming will present the history of Harlem as an incubator of arts, culture, and activism for people of the African diaspora through lectures, public discussions, and readings. The goal is to construct...

The Center for Independent Documentary, Inc., a non-profit organization, received a $700,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164). The grant, awarded from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2025, will support the production of a documentary film on the life and work of W.E.B. Du Bois, weaving his personal and professional biography with the historical and social context of his times. The film will feature Du...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the St. Louis Black Repertory Company through the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) to support personnel and marketing expenses from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. The Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program aims to support opportunities for public participation in the arts and arts education. Funding will allow the St. Louis Black...

The Academy Foundation received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164) to support the implementation phase of the Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971 temporary exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Opening in February 2022, the exhibition explores the visual culture of Black cinema from its early days to just after the Civil Rights Movement with the...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the Houston Grand Opera Association a $385,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to engage the Houston community in discussion around themes and stories explored in HGO's opera productions and new operatic works. The grant will fund the production of opera performances, the development of new operas celebrating Houston's cultural heritage, and community dialogue sessions reaching an estimated...

The Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation will receive $978,876 through a Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Save America's Treasures program to make archival materials from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater accessible for restaging. The Foundation will catalog and digitize technical information needed to restage ballets, collect and analyze dramaturgical content and rights information for each work, and develop "dance capsules" comprising this collected...