Project Grant 2011JUFX0028

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $106,000 to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) to conduct research on designing smart environments to enhance collective learning and creativity. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Developing large-scale online experiments and computational models to investigate how technological...

The Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio will receive $312,474 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) to create a new Young Adult Creativity Center. The Center will host over 200 annual events and engage more than 6,000 young adults ages 13 to 21 from the greater Cincinnati region in career-building and professional development activities in the creative industries. Two new career-focused programs, Teen...

Federal Grant Award Summary Economic & Community Development Connect received a $1,128,138 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) under the Promotion of the Arts Partnership Agreements program (CFDA 45.025), awarded August 1, 2025, with a completion date of December 31, 2026. This funding supports arts programs, services, and activities aligned with the organization's NEA-approved strategic plan as a state arts agency operating in Connecticut. The award enables the...

This two-year, $148,710 Project Grant awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants for Museums (CFDA 45.312) program will support the University of Connecticut's Greenhouse Studios, collaborating with its Asian and Asian American Studies Institute, to design a replicable community-engaged storytelling model. The project will develop an open-source Omeka plug-in to collect first-person narratives, which will be tested with the Fudeko...

The Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, OH was awarded a $499,395 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will support six mutually reinforcing and free out-of-school learning opportunities for over 5,000 young adults in the Cincinnati region to help offset learning loss resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The center will build on and expand five successful young adult programs:...

This $323,388 award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative research project to examine how smart technological environments can be optimized to augment collective learning and creativity. The research aims to investigate the parameters that drive group-directed learning in three key areas: cooperative behavior, collective intelligence, and collective creativity. The project involves large-scale...

The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, in partnership with the Association of Children's Museums, has been awarded a $738,318 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) 21st Century Museum Professionals Program (CFDA 45.032). The grant will fund a professional development program to foster innovative exhibit design for museums catering to children and youth. The project will conduct two training programs for 100 mid-career museum staff, including in-person gatherings,...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary As220, a Providence, Rhode Island-based non-profit organization, received a $870,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration (ETA) under the Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending program (CFDA 17.289) effective July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2027. The grant supports As220's mission to provide arts education and creative workforce development programming targeting underserved populations,...

The federal Project Grant award, with ID MG256076OMS24, was provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants for Museums (CFDA 45.312) program. The $1,231,500 grant will support Voices In Contemporary Art Inc. (Voca), a non-profit organization, in developing the capacity of art museum professionals across the United States in artist-centered stewardship practices. Through 18 workshops attended by teams from over 200 museums, the project will...

PROJECT CREATE: CAREER READINESS AND EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT THROUGH NATIVE YOUTH EMPOWERMENT is a $752,623 project grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Indian Education—Special Programs for Indian Children program (CFDA 84.299). The award was made to Lumbee Land Development, Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit community development corporation serving the Lumbee Tribe and surrounding communities in Pembroke, North Carolina. The...