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The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the University of Illinois at Chicago to develop a humanities curriculum and discussion forum program titled "Visualizing Parallels Between the US 'Indian Wars' and the 'Global War on Terror'." Through this award made under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162), UIC will partner with the Emerging Veteran Art Movement to prepare a...

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration awarded a $342,000 Veterans Legacy Grants Program (CFDA 64.204) project grant to the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. The grant will fund the institute's "Vietnam Veterans: Legacies of Service" project, which will commemorate Vietnam veterans and service members interred in VA national or grant-funded cemeteries. The project will create lesson plans, conduct teacher professional development, and...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $193,876.59 Project Grant to George Mason University under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) to support the project "COMING HOME: DIALOGUES ON THE MORAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND SPIRITUAL IMPACTS OF WAR" from May 1, 2018 to September 30, 2019. The project aimed to enhance the teaching and study of the humanities by creating new resources, programs, and curricula...

This federal Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program provides $2,398,281.00 in funding to the Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research (PAVIR) to increase access to evidence-based PTSD treatment for military service members and veterans. The key products and services to be delivered include: Training behavioral health technicians to deliver written exposure therapy (WET) to patients Overseeing the delivery of...

The Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration awarded Texas State University a $344,015 Project Grant under the Veterans Legacy Grants Program (CFDA 64.204) on June 6, 2024. The grant will fund the university's project titled "Texas Veterans Legacy for Tomorrow," which will leverage storytelling, social work methodologies, educational pedagogy, and primary source materials to create publicly accessible resources for university professors, high school teachers, and...

The Minnesota Humanities Center received a $196,556 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program. Through this funding, the Center will organize a series of public forums from June 2023 to May 2025 to examine the experiences of underrepresented military service members. Specifically, the Complicated Service Discussion Series will bring together veterans and community...

The Maine Humanities Council Corp received a $123,181 project grant award 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 award period was from September 1, 2016 through December 31, 2017 to support the "Telling the Story: A Book Group for Veterans" project located in Maine. The project aimed to enhance the teaching and study of the humanities by creating new...

This federal Project Grant award of $600,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) will support the production of a one-hour documentary film titled "One More Mission." The film explores the history, impact, and legacy of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), the first American veterans' organization to demand an end to the war its members had fought in. The Catticus Corporation, a woman-owned non-profit...

This federal Project Grant award of $320,861.20, awarded on June 6, 2024 by the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration under the Veterans Legacy Grants Program (CFDA 64.204), will support National History Day Inc.'s "Silent Heroes: Untold Stories from the Korean War" initiative. The project will leverage National History Day's network of teachers and students nationwide to identify Korean War-era veterans interred in nearby veterans' cemeteries, and guide...

The U.S. Defense Health Agency awarded a $2,916,605 Project Grant under the Department of Defense's Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to the Boston VA Research Institute, Inc. (BVARI) on September 30, 2023. The 4-year award, titled "LONG-TERM PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH OUTCOMES FOLLOWING MILITARY DEPLOYMENT: THE VETERANS AFTER-DISCHARGE LONGITUDINAL REGISTRY (PROJECT VALOR)", will fund BVARI's research to investigate risk factors, prevention, and...