Project Grant CHA26885921

This $151,520 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will support the Colorado Chicano Movement Archives in preserving and providing access to its collections. The awardee, Colorado State University-Pueblo, will use the funding to hire an archivist through January 2023 to process 500 digitized items, create metadata for 300 photographs, and develop finding aids. The...

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program provides $331,528 to Lewis & Clark College to rebuild and reinvigorate its special collections program. The College will use the funding over two years from October 2021 through September 2023 to create exhibits, process Indigenous and Asian archives, and develop a community archive with the local Vietnamese community. This will allow the special...

The Denver Public Library (DPL) was awarded a $266,467 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149). Through its "Bridging the Gap: Post-Baccalaureate Apprenticeships for Underrepresented Populations in Archives" initiative, DPL will recruit and hire two post-baccalaureate apprentices from underrepresented groups in archives and preservation professions for a...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant to the Braddock Carnegie Library Association, doing business as Braddock Carnegie Library, to support renovations to the adult and children's/teen libraries. The grant funding will support renovations to improve these library spaces from May 1, 2023 through February 29, 2024. The award is being made under the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130). This program aims to strengthen...

The Pikes Peak Library District Foundation will digitize its aerial photography collection from the Stewart Brothers Commercial Photographers Collection under a $228,969 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301). The Foundation will digitize thousands of photographic prints and negatives documenting Colorado Springs' growth from 1952 to 1995. It will hire a senior library associate to assist with prioritizing digitization of...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130) to Colorado State University (CSU) to support the renovation of space for the university's new Center for Engaged Humanities. The Center will engage members of the public and community organizations as critical collaborators in humanities scholarship and programming designed to strengthen local, state, and regional democratic institutions...

The Library Company of Philadelphia was awarded a $700,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). Over a three-year period from January 2023 to December 2025, the grant will fund the Library Company Papers Project to comprehensively review, process, and digitize the Library Company's institutional records from 1731 to 1880. This will preserve early American history contained...

The Carnegie Library of Homestead received a $135,313 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will support continued access to humanities-related collections and programs at the library from January 2022 through December 2022. Key activities to be funded include digitizing 232 reels of historic local newspapers from Western Pennsylvania and holding community...

The Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI), in partnership with the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI), received a $270,486 two-year Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants program (CFDA 45.312). The funding will support enhancements to Hyku, an open-source multi-tenant repository platform system suitable for access to diverse materials. This will build upon previous work to improve the...

The Colorado Museum of Natural History (DMNS) received a $297,271 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to process and provide access to the WS Ranch Archaeological Project collection. Funded under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), which supports preserving and providing access to historical resources, DMNS will sustainably preserve approximately 500,000 artifacts from the unprocessed WS Ranch collection....