Project Grant JUSFC1607

The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) was awarded a $169,642 project grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to host a two-session, in-person workshop series for secondary teachers (grades 6-12) in June and July 2025. The workshop, titled "Little Tokyo: How History Shapes a Community Across Generations," will explore how historic events and ongoing challenges have shaped the dynamic...

This $180,567 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will enable the Japanese American National Museum to host a program that invites educators from across the country to Los Angeles to examine the history and ongoing impacts on the Little Tokyo neighborhood. The project will study how events and issues like restrictive covenants, World War II incarceration, eminent domain,...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) provides $100,000.00 to the Seattle School District No 1, doing business as Seattle Public Schools, to support the expansion of the Creative Advantage collective impact project in Seattle public schools. The project aims to enhance public engagement with the arts, provide arts education, and integrate arts with community...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $190,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to the Wing Luke Memorial Foundation, doing business as the Wing Luke Asian Museum, to present two in-person "In Our Own Voices: Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in the Pacific Northwest" workshops for K-12 educators in July 2025. The workshops will build on the success of similar events held by the...

The National Park Service, through the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program (CFDA 15.933), awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to the Puyallup Valley Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League. The grant will support the creation of a permanent exhibit at the Washington State Fair in Puyallup, Washington, to educate visitors about the 7,600 Japanese and Japanese Americans who were incarcerated at the Puyallup Assembly Center during World War II. The exhibit will...

The Wing Luke Memorial Foundation dba Wing Luke Asian Museum will receive $376,640 from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program to conduct two in-person workshops in Summer 2023. The workshops will build on the Museum's previous "In Our Own Words" workshops focused on enriching K-12 educators' understanding of early Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander histories in the Pacific Northwest. Led by...

The Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs awarded $105,299 under the Public Diplomacy Programs federal grant to support the creation of a U.S.-Japan Young Scholars' Training on Nuclear Policy. The Maureen And Mike Mansfield Foundation will organize a bilateral exchange bringing Masters and PhD students from the U.S. and Japan together from September 2022 to January 2024 to deepen their understanding of nuclear policy and security issues. The exchange is intended to advance...

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....

The Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs awarded the Portland Art Museum a $4,917,308.34 Project Grant under the Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Citizen Exchanges (CFDA 19.415) program. The grant funding will support the museum's presentation of the exhibition "The Space in Which to Place Me" featuring artist Jeffrey Gibson at the 60th International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy from July 2023 to November 2024. The Portland Art Museum has...

The University of Arkansas was awarded a $495,513 federal Project Grant from the National Park Service's Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) program, with a project period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026. Under this grant, the university will develop educational curricula and lesson plans for grades 7-12, as well as three professional development workshops for Arkansas teachers, focused on the Rohwer and Jerome incarceration sites in Arkansas. The...