The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $358,486 project grant to the Center For Cultural And Technical Interchange Between East And West, Inc. doing business as the East-West Center located in Hawaii, USA. The grant period ran from October 1, 2016 through December 31, 2017 under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163). The grant funded the "Islam in Asia: Traditions and Transformations" project. The project aimed to promote better...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Indiana University $217,254 under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development federal grant program (CFDA 45.163) for the project "Muslim American Identities, Past and Present" from October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017. The grant aimed to promote better teaching and research on Muslim American history and culture in higher education through Indiana University's examination of Muslim American identities over time. As the...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $12,627,300 Project Grant to the California Humanities organization under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). The grant funded 20 documentary films, podcasts, and digital projects created by 19 independent producers and organizations in California between November 1, 2016 and October 31, 2021. The projects explored diverse topics from the history of Asian and LGBTQ communities to agricultural...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to the MPT Foundation, Inc. for the public television program "Here, the People Rule" under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) federal grant program. MPT Foundation will produce a two-hour documentary film for PBS that will explore notable transitions in history through stories involving themes of change. The film is scheduled for completion by May 31, 2023. The NEH Public Programs...
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 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $524,388 Project Grant to the Minnesota Humanities Center under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). The grant, with a period of performance from November 1, 2024 to October 31, 2029, will enable the Minnesota Humanities Center to provide public humanities programming focused on increasing collective understanding of Minnesota communities, histories, and cultural experiences. Key initiatives...
This federal Project Grant award of $150,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) will be used by Loyola Marymount University to run a summer institute for rising high school seniors from historically marginalized and under-served populations in Los Angeles. The institute will introduce students to the concepts of public history and how to grapple with "difficult...
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 federal Project Grant award in the amount of $428,609.00 was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). The grant is awarded to the Nebraska Humanities Council, operating as Humanities Nebraska, a non-profit organization located in Lincoln, Nebraska. This general operating support grant enables Humanities Nebraska to bring the humanities to life through subawards and public programming...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $599,998 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to Verse Video Education, Inc., a woman-owned non-profit organization. The grant funding will support the production of Season Five of the public television series "Poetry in America," which explores American poetry as a central part of the nation's culture and history. The series gathers poets, distinguished individuals from other fields,...