The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $500,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130) to Miami University. The grant will support the construction of a new state-of-the-art Humanities Center at the university's Oxford, Ohio campus. The center will consolidate Miami's humanities departments and provide new seminar rooms, office space, and a large event venue. The $62M renovation of Bachelor Hall will create a new Humanities...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $500,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130) to the Model-T Automotive Heritage Complex, Inc. in Detroit, Michigan. The grant will fund the "FORD PIQUETTE PLANT ADA COMPLIANCE PROJECT" to provide a passenger elevator and ADA-compliant restrooms in the 1904 National Historic Landmark building that houses the Ford Piquette Plant Museum. The project aims to enhance...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $223,800 Project Grant to the Florida Humanities Council, Incorporated through the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). The grant supports the "Racial Awareness Project", a multiplatform, interactive initiative focused on educating the public on white supremacy in the wake of a racially motivated shooting in Jacksonville, Florida. The project will include an interactive exhibition, a...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $230,269 Project Grant to the Vizcaya Museum & Gardens Trust Inc. under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The funding will support the museum in retaining six staff members and hiring an additional curator from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023 to preserve archival records and collections related to James Deering and his estate. Key activities include ongoing cataloging,...
The Grand Rapids Public Museum 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 grant will fund the renovation of a portion of the museum's Community Archives and Research Center facility into a new public space. This will include the creation of two flexible artifact labs to be used by K-12 students for hands-on learning, by college students and researchers for in-depth access to the...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Pace University under the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130). The grant will support and showcase the humanities at Pace University's flagship building in Lower Manhattan. Key products and services to be delivered include: Establishing a Storytelling Studio to serve as an updated seminar room for humanities courses, featuring discussion, collaborative student projects, and...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $500,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130) to the Historic Albany Foundation, Inc. The grant will fund the restoration and rehabilitation of the Van Ostrande-Radliff House, the oldest building in Albany, New York, to serve as the new headquarters for the Historic Albany Foundation. The project aims to transform the currently vacant and dilapidated historic building into a facility...
The Elmhurst Art Museum was awarded a $150,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130) to fund a roofing renovation project. The grant, awarded on May 1, 2024, will support necessary renovations to the museum's main building roofing systems in order to protect and sustain the integrity of the museum's permanent collection, public exhibitions and programming, and educational center classes and...
This $148,988 Project Grant was awarded on October 1, 2023 by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program. The grant funding will support the "Mott Haven History Keepers" project, which aims to identify, honor, and invest in members of the Mott Haven community in the South Bronx who are serving as "history keepers" and repositories of the neighborhood's history, despite not being...
The Carnegie Library of Homestead in Munhall, Pennsylvania received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130) on September 1, 2024. The funding will support Phase Two of the library's $15 million capital campaign to renovate and improve its historical 123-year-old building. Specific activities covered by the grant include ADA upgrades, hazard abatement, demolition, general construction,...