This $350,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) supports the SAADA Summer Fellowship in Community Archiving program. The two-year project, starting on September 1, 2024, will provide master's-level students with training in community archival practices and digital preservation focused on preserving South Asian American cultural heritage materials. Fellows will learn skills such as...
This $150,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) supports the "?STILL STANDING?: STORIES OF RESILIENCE FROM SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN SMALL BUSINESSES" project. The grant will fund the South Asian American Digital Archive NFP (Saada) to document the resiliency, innovation, and community-building of South Asian American small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic....
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $172,260 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to Montclair State University. The grant, titled "Bridging Histories: Angel Island and Asian American Immigration," will fund a two-week hybrid institute for 25 K-5 teachers. The institute will provide participants the opportunity to visit Angel Island, a historically significant gateway for Asian American immigration, and...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Historic Hudson Valley $269,800 under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development federal grant program (CFDA 45.163) to support a virtual teacher training institute from July 16-22, 2023. The institute will provide professional development to 36 K-12 educators on teaching about slavery in the northern colonial era. The NEH Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program aims to improve teaching of American history and...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $175,000 project grant to Upstander Project, Inc., a non-profit organization, to fund the "Upstander Academy: Rethreading the Needle of Native American History through Land and Water-Based Learning" program. This two-week residential institute, scheduled for July 2025, will provide 25 participants, including 3rd to 12th grade humanities teachers and museum educators, with an immersive and experiential understanding of Native...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program awarded a $148,054 project grant to the San Jose State University Research Foundation to implement the "Resisting Erasure and Asserting Afghan Cultural and Community Resilience" initiative. This community-engaged humanities project seeks to collect and publicly preserve the stories, cultural heritage, and resilience of first- and second-generation Afghan...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $197,846 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to The Interfaith Center of New York, Inc. The grant will fund a three-week institute that provides K-12 teachers with an advanced introduction to the religious diversity of the United States. The institute will include classroom-based workshops, meetings with religious leaders, visits to local houses of worship, and field research in a...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $191,619 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to the American Historical Association (AHA). This grant will fund a three-week virtual institute in June-July 2025 for 30 K-12 educators on the theme of "Africa in World History." The institute aims to enhance the participants' content knowledge and allow them to expand beyond the limited engagement with African...
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....
This federal Project Grant award of $173,044 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) supports a 2-week NEH K-12 institute titled "Indigenous Histories of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands." Led by faculty from Northern Arizona University's History Department and Institute for Native-Serving Educators, the institute aims to expose secondary social studies educators to new historiography, primary sources,...