The American Library Association (ALA) was awarded a $427,092 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164). The grant will fund ALA's "The Great Stories Club: Reading and Discussion for At-Risk Youth" program through August 2024. The program aims to connect librarians with at-risk youth through literature-based outreach and thematic reading and discussion. As the sub-awardee,...
The American Library Association (ALA) received a $2,221,576 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) program. Through this funding, ALA will administer a $2 million subaward program to provide 200 public, academic, school, tribal, prison and special libraries with $10,000 each to develop humanities programming. The subawards will deliver immediate short-term relief to libraries as they recover from the...
The American Library Association's (ALA) Public Programs Office (PPO) received a $499,990 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to sustain its core activities through December 2022. The grant will support the PPO's ongoing professional development and peer-sharing, development of future humanities projects, professional recognition efforts, and evaluation of the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Women Make Movies Inc. $500,000 under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program (CFDA 45.164) to support the project "ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE?" from May 2021 through March 2023. The Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program aims to provide opportunities for the American public to explore human history and culture through public programs in various community venues. For this award, Women Make Movies...
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...
This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129) provides $459,061.00 in funding to the Nebraska Humanities Council, operating as Humanities Nebraska, for a 5-year period from November 1, 2024 to October 31, 2029. The grant enables Humanities Nebraska to bring the humanities to life through subawards and public programming tailored to the needs, resources, and interests of...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to The Catticus Corporation, a woman-owned non-profit organization, to produce, test, assess, and host an educational interactive documentary website titled "The Barbara Johns Project." This project aims to illuminate the African American struggle for freedom during the era of segregation (Jim Crow) in the South between the Civil War and...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $1,295,514 Project Grant to the National History Day Inc. under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The four-year cooperative agreement will support educational programming from 2023 to 2026 focusing on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and continued efforts toward a more just and inclusive society. National History Day Inc. will produce...
The University of Southern California received a $499,999 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to support a Humanities Discussions Project titled "LA2026". The project will bring together members of the public and humanities scholars for 18 discussions about museum and cultural exhibitions at 6 partner institutions in the Los Angeles region. These discussions will reframe conversations about...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $119,970 Project Grant under its Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the University of Illinois for the "No Longer at the Margins: A Digital Project to Amplify Access to the Archives of Women in Science" initiative. This collaborative project between the University of Illinois Archives, Science Stories, and the University of Minnesota Archives aims to digitize and provide...