Project Grant MA257689OMS25
- The Florida Holocaust Museum was awarded a $1,500,000 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301). The grant will support the museum's strategic goal of enhancing access and audience reach by designing and constructing a new state-of-the-art core exhibition. This will include displaying their most impactful items, such as a historic Treblinka boxcar, a Danish rescue boat, the Elie Wiesel archives, and a letter signed by...
- The Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan will receive $200,000 through a Project Grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164). The funding will support the hiring and training of six new professional museum educators to resume in-person group tours and workshops at the Center. The educators will work with school groups, leading tours and providing support services to...
- The Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan was awarded a $605,000 Project Grant from the Department of Education's Innovative Approaches to Literacy program. The 3-year grant funds a Holocaust education program focused on delivering literacy-based educational content on the Holocaust to K-12 students. Additionally, the Center has received previous federal grants totaling $750,000 from the Department of Education and National Endowment for the Humanities to support in-person...
- The Nancy and David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center, in partnership with the Cincinnati Museum Center, will receive a $1,495,762 grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) federal grant program. The funding will support community-centered programming for two exhibitions: "Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away" and "Holding Hope: Stories of Survival During the Holocaust." Key activities will include...
- The U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $249,831 National Leadership Grants for Museums (CFDA 45.312) project grant to Towson University's Albert S. Cook Library, in partnership with Brandeis University Library. The grant will develop, test, and share best practices and digital tools for identifying and cataloging books from the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction (JCR) organization, which distributed over 160,000 books seized from Jewish communities after World War II. The...
- The U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance awarded a $1,100,000 Project Grant (CFDA 16.753 Congressionally Recommended Awards) to the Holocaust Memorial Center (HMC) in Farmington Hills, Michigan. The grant funds the "Holocaust Memorial Centers Security Sector and Law Enforcement Professional Education Program," which provides customized training about the Holocaust and preventing atrocities to state, local, and tribal law enforcement, corrections, and probation...
- The Museum of Discovery and Science in Fort Lauderdale, Florida received a $482,330 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (MFA) federal grant program (CFDA 45.301). The grant will be used to expand the museum's "STEMobile" program, a mobile makerspace initiative that provides interactive STEM experiences for early learners ages 3-5 and their caregivers/teachers. The program will serve 123 early learning centers in the 10...
- The Museum of Discovery and Science in Fort Lauderdale, FL was awarded a $1,009,936 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (MFA) program. The grant will be used to strengthen and expand two paid workforce development internship programs for South Florida high school students in grades 10-12: the Everglades EcoExplorers and the Aviation Academy. The internships will provide students from underserved communities with education,...
- The National WWII Museum has been awarded a $778,383 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301). The grant will fund a comprehensive teacher professional development effort to enhance the teaching of World War II history, coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the war. The project will reach an estimated 15,000 teachers annually through onsite workshops, online courses, community-based training programs, curriculum...
- The Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College received a $500,040 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (MFA) program. The funding will support the creation of exhibitions focused on the history, use, and cultural significance of the Freedom Tower, a National Historic Landmark. Key project activities include content development, curation of exhibitions, an orientation film, and guided interpretive tours in English and...
The Holocaust Documentation and Education Center (HDEC) in Dania Beach, FL received a $1,016,520 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) federal grant program. The funding will support a wide-ranging Holocaust education outreach program for educators and students in South Florida. Key project activities include utilizing HDEC's new interactive learning center resources, such as holographic interviews, interactive smart table displays, and presentations in the multi-purpose orientation theater. The project will also develop new programming focused on K-8 audiences to share stories of resilience and hope. HDEC will hire an exhibit coordinator and educational outreach coordinator to organize activities and build capacity to reach K-12 educators across Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach counties. The project aims to increase student knowledge and understanding of the universal lessons of the Holocaust and is scheduled for completion by September 30, 2027.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $499.1k | 9/19/25 |