Project Grant 19468065226

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...

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 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...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Endowment for the Arts awarded the National Book Foundation, Inc. a $100,000 Project Grant effective June 1, 2025, through May 31, 2026, under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) to support literary programming initiatives. The funding supports core operational activities including staff salaries, author fees, and teaching artist fees that enable the Foundation to deliver literary arts activities and...

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 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...

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...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded Mid Atlantic Arts, Inc. a Project Grant of $274,000 under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024), effective July 1, 2025, with a completion date of October 31, 2026. The grant supports the coordination and administration of the 2026 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Out Loud National Finals, a national poetry recitation competition designed to promote arts education...

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...