Project Grant 19353533425

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the Hawaii International Film Festival through the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The grant will support the Festival's personnel, facilities, and marketing expenses to respond to and aid recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. As the NEA's Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program aims to support opportunities for public participation in...

The University of Hawaii at Manoa will digitize 890 motion picture film reels and videotapes from its Henry Kuualoha Moving Image Archive of Hawaii collections in order to provide access to historical materials documenting Hawaii's path to statehood and its varying impacts on native Hawaiian and Japanese American populations from the 1920s to 2000s. Funded by a $1,050,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under its Promotion of the Humanities Division of...

This $163,000 Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior's Interior Business Center was made to the Waimea Hawaiian Homesteaders' Association, Inc. under the Native Hawaiian Community Guest Stewardship program (CFDA 15.068). The grant supports the Aloha Festivals on the Island of Hawaii, which celebrate Hawaiian culture, language, arts, and traditional practices. Key elements of the festivities include island-wide Makahiki-like events and contests such as the Paniolo Festival,...

The Hawaii Council for Humanities has been awarded a $220,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). The grant will fund the delivery of events and programs at colleges, universities, museums, libraries, historic sites, and other cultural and community organizations across Hawaii from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026. These activities are designed to foster community...

This federal Project Grant award for $975,000.00, awarded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the Higher Education Institutional Aid program (CFDA 84.031), will fund the "KA IPU HOOKELE WAA - INDIGENOUS DIGITAL STORYTELLING PROJECT" at the University of Hawaii System's Honolulu Community College campus. The project aims to strengthen the academic quality and expand educational opportunities for underrepresented Native Hawaiian students...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to the Honolulu Museum of Art, doing business as the Honolulu Academy of Arts, to support personnel expenses in response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant was awarded under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) and will support the delivery of products and services from April 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. The Promotion of the Arts Grants to...

Hawaii Community College will utilize a $147,157 National Endowment for the Humanities Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program to engage in cultural heritage preservation and education efforts centered around the newly established Palamanui Forest Preserve from June 2023 through May 2026. Key deliverables include developing digital archives and maps of ancient and modern trails within the preserve, establishing a...

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded a $912,500 Project Grant to the Hawaii State Foundation On Culture And The Arts on July 1, 2024 under the Promotion of the Arts Partnership Agreements program (CFDA 45.025). This funding will support arts programs, services, and activities associated with carrying out the agency's NEA-approved strategic plan over the award period of July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025. The Hawaii State Foundation On Culture And The Arts, as the designated state arts...

This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129) will provide humanities disaster recovery funding to the Hawaii Council for the Humanities. The funding will support the council's efforts to deliver humanities-focused programming and subawards to communities in Hawaii affected by the Maui wildfires of August 2023. The award, with a performance period from August 1, 2024 to July...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $652,433 to the Hawaii Council For Humanities through the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129) for the period of June 15, 2021 through April 30, 2023. This Project Grant will support local, statewide, and regional public humanities programming through the Hawaii Council For Humanities. The Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program provides annual grants to humanities councils in each...