Project Grant MA251559OMS22
- This Project Grant award of $185,586 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services will support a collaborative effort by The Adirondack Experience and multiple partners to facilitate a virtual public programming series examining the history of Adirondack Park through an environmental justice lens. The Adirondack Diversity Initiative, Akwesasne Cultural Center, Mountain Lake PBS, The Nature Conservancy's Adirondack Chapter, and The Wild Center will partner with The Adirondack Experience to...
- This federal Cooperative Agreement award of $1,000,000 from the U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service under the Heritage Partnership Program (CFDA 15.939) supports the operations of the Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership. The funding is intended to engage National Heritage Area recipients, partners, communities, and visitors in shared environmental stewardship, promoting preservation, conservation, education, and outdoor recreation related to the area's cultural,...
- The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Vergennes, Vermont will receive $105,448 under a Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program to implement a boat-building and rowing program. The Museum will partner with local schools to engage 24 students several days a week in building an 18th century replica whaleboat at its boat shop. In spring 2022, the students will utilize the completed boats for an after-school rowing program involving...
- The Vermont Historical Society in Barre, Vermont will create new educational online and in-person content focused on stories of resilience, diversity, and community in Vermont history under a $106,575 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Funded through IMLS's National Leadership Grants program, which supports advancing practices in museums and libraries, the project will develop resources for the Society's Vermont History Explorer website. This digital platform...
- The Institute for Native Pacific Education and Culture (Inpeace) will design the Loko I'a traveling exhibit under a $117,482 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The exhibit will provide Native Hawaiian youth and families an opportunity to learn about loko i'a, traditional Hawaiian fishponds that are a central land management practice, through interactive and hands-on activities incorporating observational, problem-solving approaches. Inpeace will collect...
- The U.S. National Park Service awarded a $1,000,000.00 Cooperative Agreement under the Heritage Partnership Program (CFDA 15.939) to the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission (NEIWPCC), the coordinating entity for the Champlain Valley National Heritage Area. The award will fund administrative and operational programming, staffing, and implementation of resource stewardship, preservation education, interpretative trip planning and tours, cultural revitalization, historic...
- This $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service's Heritage Partnership Program (CFDA 15.939) supports the administration and operations of the Champlain Valley Heritage Partnership. Key activities funded include: Developing and implementing resource stewardship and preservation educational initiatives Providing administrative and operational support for guided interpretive trip planning and tours Carrying out cultural revitalization efforts and historic preservation...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $175,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to the Upstander Project, Inc. for 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 from 3rd to 12th grade humanities teachers and museum educators with an...
- Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness received a $105,000 Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs under the Indian Economic Development program (CFDA 15.032) to conduct a feasibility study for the Wabanaki Way Indigenous tourism experience. The study will assess opportunities to connect and support tribal tourism operations between the Gathering Place campground in Millinocket, Maine and the Wolastoq Inn and Suites and Wilderness Pines Campground managed by...
- This federal Project Grant award of $149,960 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will fund a community-based, collaborative oral history and archival project titled "The Floods Change Everything: Documenting Food Access and Cultural Resiliency Among New American Communities in Vermont". The project will explore the experiences of climate change among resettled refugees in their...
ECHO, LEAHY CENTER FOR LAKE CHAMPLAIN WILL BUILD ON ITS LONG-TERM PARTNERSHIP WITH THE VERMONT ABENAKI COMMUNITY TO IMPROVE INTERPRETATION AND RENEW SUPPORT FOR COMMUNITY PRIORITIES. THROUGH EVALUATION AND ONGOING COLLABORATION WITH ABENAKI PARTNERS, ECHO WILL DESIGN AN EXHIBIT FOR ITS "NATIVE CONNECTIONS" GALLERY AND PROVIDE STAFF WITH CULTURAL COMPETENCY TRAINING TO IMPROVE THEIR CAPACITY TO BUILD AND MAINTAIN HEALTHY COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS. ECHO WILL ALSO HOST A PROGRAM SERIES SPEARHEADED BY THE VERMONT ABENAKI ALLIANCE TO ADDRESS ITS NEED TO CULTIVATE THE NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS, ALIGN CULTURAL REVITALIZATION EFFORTS, AND BUILD CONSENSUS AMONG THE FOUR TRIBAL BANDS. AS A RESULT, ECHO WILL APPROPRIATELY INTERPRET THE ABENAKI COMMUNITY STORY AND HONOR ITS VOICE; THE NEXT GENERATION OF ABENAKI LEADERS WILL FEEL A RENEWED CONNECTION TO THEIR CULTURAL HERITAGE; AND A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF THE ABENAKI EXPERIENCE WILL INFORM MUSEUM PRACTICES.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $0 | 2/20/25 | ||
| Not listed | $208.7k | 7/11/22 |