Project Grant AO202501X443G028

The New York Public Library, in partnership with Teachers College, Columbia University, will deliver a two-week combined summer institute titled "Harlem's Education Movements: Changing the Civil Rights Narrative" through a $378,290 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Through scholarly presentations, dialogue with movement veterans, place-based pedagogy, and guided exploration of the Schomburg Center's archival collections, the institute will provide 25...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $554,624 Project Grant under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program to The Exploratorium in San Francisco, CA. The grant will fund the creation of a cohort-based leadership development training program for middle and senior-level managers at the museum. The program aims to address inequitable access to leadership development opportunities and will involve identifying and hiring consultants to collaborate on designing the...

The Mechanics Institute was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164). The funding will support staffing, presenters, and audiovisual infrastructure to deliver a hybrid online and in-person civil rights programming series from October 2021 through September 2022. Key products include planning discussions on prison reform, immigration, and reparations issues. The...

The Towson University-led project, funded through a $150,000 National Leadership Grants for Museums (CFDA 45.312) award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, will develop a student-centered outreach model for academic archives. This two-year project will conduct a series of virtual forums with students, faculty, and practitioners to inform the creation of a data-driven, cost-effective, and generalizable student-centered outreach model for academic archives. The model will be...

The Institute of International Education Inc. was awarded a $250,000 cooperative agreement by the Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs to help displaced universities take critical next steps to become sustainable institutions at their new locations. The award was made under the AEECA/ESF PD Programs of the United States Department of State to provide civil society and democracy building public diplomacy programs within Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia for the period of...

The Regents of the University of Minnesota, through its Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, was awarded a $249,892 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants (CFDA 45.312) program. The grant will fund a 2-year project to increase educational equity in higher education by developing models and guidance to help academic libraries formalize programs that support open education initiatives. The project will focus on improving...

The Institute For The Psychological Sciences Inc. received a $180,966 Supplemental Assistance to Institutions of Higher Education project grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the Education Stabilization Fund federal grant program. The grant period runs from July 31, 2021 through July 31, 2022. The Education Stabilization Fund program aims to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. This particular SAIHE award will likely support...

This $199,950 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will support Full Spectrum Features NFP, a Chicago-based non-profit organization, to host a three-week institute for educators on the history of Japanese American resettlement after World War II. The institute will take place both virtually and in-person in Chicago, the largest non-West Coast resettlement site for Japanese Americans....

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $175,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to San Diego State University (SDSU) Foundation to fund a two-week, twenty-five participant summer institute for K-12 educators focused on "Using Comics to Teach Social Justice." The institute will engage participants with SDSU instructors experienced in developing comics curriculum to explore the medium's usefulness for...

Saint Louis University received a $439,282 project grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to conduct the "Global Geographies of Knowledge" institute from October 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023. The institute will enrich scholarship on the complex entanglements that characterized the first age of globalization from 1400 to 1800. Drawing from fields including historical geography,...