Project Grant 19120725523

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to Taiko Community Alliance from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. The grant supports personnel expenses to aid recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). This program aims to provide opportunities for public participation in the arts, integrate arts strategies that promote well-being and community resilience, and build arts...

The Japanese American Cultural And Community Center (JACCC) received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The grant funding will support JACCC's personnel, facilities, and safety supplies expenses from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022 in response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The NEA's Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and...

The Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (JACCC) was awarded a $125,000 Project Grant by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003). The grant funding will be used to preserve and digitize historical records about Japanese American foodways and culinary experiences during World War II internment camps. The project aims to deepen national understanding of the Japanese American experience...

The Southwest Folklife Alliance Inc., doing business as Tucson Meet Yourself, received a $1,000,000 two-year Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The grant funds will support the National Folklife Network initiative to strengthen traditional arts through training, fieldwork, convenings, community collaborations and cultural asset mapping. The initiative will be implemented in...

The Northwest Film Forum received a $220,725 project grant award from the Department of the Interior National Park Service Intermountain Region. The grant was awarded under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933) to support projects that identify, research, evaluate, interpret, protect, and conserve sites where Japanese Americans were detained during World War II. The funding period was from August 1, 2021 to February 25, 2022. As the sub-awardee, the...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to the National Asian American Theatre Company, Inc. doing business as Caata for the period of January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. The funding supports personnel expenses to respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). This program aims to support opportunities for public participation in the arts and arts education,...

The Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to Taala Fund under the Native Initiatives federal grant program (CFDA 21.012). The grant will support technical assistance activities from September 2021 through December 2023 to build the organizational capacity of certified and emerging Native Community Development Financial Institutions. Technical assistance will be provided in eligible areas including personal services, fringe...

The Asian American Writers Workshop Inc., doing business as Asian Pacific American Journal, received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The funding will support personnel expenses from June 1, 2022 through May 31, 2023 to aid the organization's response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to Pan Asian Repertory Theater Inc. from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023 under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The funding will support personnel expenses for Pan Asian Repertory Theater Inc. in response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program aims to support opportunities for all people to...

The University of Connecticut has been awarded a $370,325 Project Grant from the National Park Service's Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) program. The grant will support the development of the "FUDEKO PROJECT: A Japanese American Digital Journaling Project", which aims to engage approximately 10 Japanese American survivors in recording their personal narratives and experiences of incarceration during World War II. Participants will document their...