Project Grant 19124985223

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $500,000 Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grant to Literary Arts Inc., doing business as Portland Arts & Lectures, to renovate their new building located at 716 SE Grand in Portland, Oregon. The renovations will create additional classroom, event, community, and staff workspace, allowing Literary Arts to expand its literary and humanities programming. Planned improvements include a new bookstore, coffee bar, multi-purpose area...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) will provide $120,000.00 to Le Moyne College to support the creation of a course called "Publishing Today." The course will reinvigorate interest in English Literature majors by educating students on the current publishing industry landscape. It will feature guest speakers and experts from...

Prime Time Family Reading (Prime Time) received a $199,979 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant will support Prime Time's development of a bilingual book series and accompanying resources titled "A More Perfect Union" aimed at encouraging literacy and civic engagement among families with young children. Key activities include the...

The Library of America, in partnership with the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures, will produce 400 Years of Latino Poetry, a $1,698,898 project grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164). The initiative includes publishing a groundbreaking anthology of Latino poetry spanning 400 years; public programs and conversations with literary scholars, poets, and historians across...

The Edith Wharton Restoration, Inc., doing business as The Mount, received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities on January 1, 2022 to support full-time, on-site literary and history programming through December 31, 2022. The programming will focus on issues of racial justice, gender equality, and immigration using Edith Wharton's life and works as a framework. Three types of public programs are planned to 1) relate Wharton's works to present-day...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $599,998 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to Verse Video Education, Inc., a woman-owned non-profit organization, to support the production of Season Five of the public television series "Poetry in America." The grant funding will cover a portion of the expenses across the eight episodes that will explore American poetry as a central part of American culture and history, exposing...

The American Library Association (ALA) received a $2,221,576 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) program. Through this funding, ALA will administer a $2 million subaward program to provide 200 public, academic, school, tribal, prison and special libraries with $10,000 each to develop humanities programming. The subawards will deliver immediate short-term relief to libraries as they recover from the...

The American Library Association's (ALA) Public Programs Office (PPO) received a $499,990 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to sustain its core activities through December 2022. The grant will support the PPO's ongoing professional development and peer-sharing, development of future humanities projects, professional recognition efforts, and evaluation of the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Verse Video Education, Inc. $299,765 under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program (CFDA 45.164) to support the completion of five episodes in Season 4 of the public television show Poetry in America. Titled "More Perfect Union," these episodes will focus on American poems that examine the nation's shared narratives. Each episode will profile a work representing different American styles, traditions, and...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $200,000 to the City of Englewood, New Jersey through the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program (CFDA 45.164) to implement the "Humanities for All: Expanding Library Services in Multiple Languages" project from January 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023. The grant funds will be used by the Public Library of Englewood to retain one staff position and create four new ones to conduct multilingual programming in Spanish, Korean,...