Project Grant GE26637819

The National Women's Hall of Fame (NWHF) in Seneca Falls, New York will use a $112,095 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants program to expand its virtual forums engaging communities in dialogue about past, present, and future leaders in women's history. Specifically, NWHF will host six bi-monthly forums from November 2021 through October 2022 highlighting women's equality, women in business, and medical researchers advancing women's...

The Museum of the City of New York, Inc. received a $100,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to support the exhibition "Shirley Chisholm: A Brooklyn Life" in 2024-2025. This exhibition will explore the early life, path-breaking political career, and lasting legacy of Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress and the first woman to run for President on a major party ticket. The...

The New York Historical Society received a $194,648 project grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163). The funding will support the "American Women, American Citizens: 1920-1948" institute, a hybrid learning experience that will convene 30 schoolteachers, 2 teacher advisors, 6 scholar guests, and several educational partners/field trip sites over several months. The institute will...

The New York Historical Society received a $350,948 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to conduct a hybrid professional development institute for K-12 educators titled "Preparing for America at 250: Women and the American Revolution." The institute will convene 30 teachers over several months from July to November 2023, including two in-person weeks at the Historical Society in July and virtual evening sessions in June, August, September, October, and...

The National Park Service, through its Pacific West Region, awarded a $104,005 Cooperative Agreement (Award ID: P24AC02185) to the Rosie the Riveter Trust, a non-profit organization based in Richmond, California. The purpose of the award, funded under the National Park Service Conservation, Protection, Outreach, and Education program (CFDA 15.954), is to support the planning and implementation of the 25th anniversary celebration of the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historic Park....

The Department of Justice Offices Boards and Divisions Office on Violence Against Women awarded a $325,000 cooperative agreement to My Sisters Place under the Education, Training, and Enhanced Services to End Violence Against and Abuse of Women with Disabilities program (CFDA 16.529). The two-year award beginning October 1, 2021 will support My Sisters Place in providing collaborative services to deaf and hard of hearing victims of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, sexual assault,...

The New York Asian Women's Center, doing business as Womankind, was awarded a $450,000 Project Grant under the Grants to Enhance Culturally Specific Services for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program (CFDA 16.016) by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women. The three-year grant, effective from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027, will support Womankind in providing culturally and linguistically specific services to Asian...

The Friends of Alice Austen House will receive $118,340 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Save America's Treasures program to increase access to and preserve portions of the paper-based collection at the Alice Austen House Museum in Staten Island, New York. The Friends will inventory, re-accession, catalog, rehouse and digitize letters, Victorian-era calling cards, and annotated negative sleeves from Austen's photographic work between October 2021 and March 2024. This...

The Department of Justice Offices Boards and Divisions Office on Violence Against Women awarded $300,000 under the Sexual Assault Services Culturally Specific Program (SAS Culturally Specific Program, CFDA 16.023) federal grant to Sepa Mujer, Inc. from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The funding will support Sepa Mujer, Inc., a culturally specific community-based organization, in providing direct intervention and related assistance services to victims of sexual assault from Hispanic...

The federal Project Grant award, funded by the Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) under the Sexual Assault Services Culturally Specific Program (CFDA 16.023), provides $382,500.00 to the New York Asian Women's Center, Inc. (doing business as Womankind) to establish, maintain, and expand culturally specific intervention and related assistance for victims of sexual assault. The funding supports a range of services, including advocacy, accompaniment, crisis intervention,...