Project Grant CHA27682222
- The Montana Historical Society received a $20,465.63 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149). The award funded a project titled "Drill Rigs and Grain Silos: Harvesting Food History to Capture the Culture of a Community in Change" from January 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019. The project aimed to preserve and provide intellectual access to primary resources...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $626,658 to Humanities Montana through the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129) from June 2021 to April 2023. This Project Grant will support local, statewide, and regional public humanities programming through annual grants administered by Humanities Montana, the state humanities council for Montana. The Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program promotes such public humanities...
- The University of Montana received a $41,341.86 project grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities on October 1, 2018 to complete a planning project by October 31, 2019. The award was made under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), which aims to ensure long-term availability and access to humanities resources held in libraries, museums, archives and other collections. Specifically, the University of Montana used the NEH...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $101,418.00 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130) to the Meeteetse Museum District in Park County, Wyoming. The funding will support a roof retrofit and solar panel installation project at the museums due to severe roof leaks caused by heavy snowfall and below average temperatures. The project aims to better protect the museum's collections, reduce energy costs, and improve the...
- This $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will fund a two-year project to preserve the oral histories of Crow elders in Montana. The project, titled "A People's Oral History of Coal," will conduct over 20 interviews with Crow tribal elders and preserve the recordings in the archives of the Little Big Horn College. This effort aims to document the community's knowledge and...
- This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will fund a summer bridge program at Helena College in Montana called "A Bridge to Humanities Pathways in College: Using Film Production to Explore Local Culture and History." Over a two-year period ending in September 2023, the $144,719 in funding will support three summer programs where high school and at-risk college students research and produce documentary films on topics representing under-explored aspects of the...
- The National Museum of Industrial History was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130). The funding will support Phase 2B of the museum's Second Floor Expansion Project, which will increase the size of the facility by renovating the previously undeveloped 20,000 square foot second floor. This expansion will double the museum's exhibit space and add much needed administrative and...
- The University of Montana received a $499,023 Project Grant award 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 a coordinated set of public humanities programming from December 2021 through May 2023 focused on racial justice, death during the COVID-19 pandemic, Native American scholarship, and the history of pandemics. University of Montana staff will conduct a range of activities...
- The Missouri Humanities Council received a $975,726 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). The funding supported a variety of initiatives focused on heritage, history, and culture in Missouri through June 2023. Subawards were provided to archival organizations to process historical court records and research African American heritage in rural areas. Other subgrantees planned...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $944,736 Project Grant to the Minnesota Humanities Center, doing business as the Humanities Education Center, to support programming under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). This program provides annual grants to state humanities councils to promote local, statewide, and regional public humanities programming. Funding will support the Minnesota Humanities Center's work organizing public events,...
The Montana Historical Society (MHS) received a $1.2 million Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130) to support construction of the new Montana Heritage Center. The NEH award provides $750,000 in federal matching funds, requiring MHS to raise $3 million in non-federal third party contributions. Funding will support permanent installation of compact shelving for collections storage, refurbishing of historic windows, and HVAC system improvements at the new facility. The award period is from May 1, 2021 through December 31, 2024. As the state history organization, MHS will leverage this NEH Challenge Grant to strengthen its institutional capacity and complete a new facility housing its collections, which will enhance the public's access to Montana's cultural heritage.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $461.9k | 11/5/22 | ||
| Not listed | $461.9k | 11/5/22 | ||
| Not listed | $138.1k | 12/22/21 | ||
| Not listed | $150.0k | 12/15/21 |