Project Grant P17AP00142

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 Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation received a $224,892 Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior National Park Service under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933). The grant will support the creation and installation of a permanent exhibit at the Mineta-Simpson Institute at Heart Mountain, highlighting the decades-long friendship between former Congressmen Norman Y. Mineta and Alan K. Simpson, who first met as Boy Scouts at the Heart...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Award Summary The National Park Service (NPS) awarded Bainbridge Island Metro Park a cooperative agreement valued at $299,287 under the National Park Service Conservation, Protection, Outreach, and Education program (CFDA 15.954), effective September 16, 2025, with completion by September 30, 2026. Under this agreement, the awardee will collaborate with the NPS to manage facilities and provide public access to the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion...

The Department of the Interior's National Park Service Intermountain Region awarded a $474,528 Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) Grant (CFDA 15.933) to Densho, a nonprofit organization, to preserve and interpret the history of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Through this Project Grant, Densho will digitize 50,000 archival items, conduct outreach to survivors and descendants to gather contextual information, and incorporate the new digital materials into...

The National Japanese American Historical Society Inc. (NJAHS) has been awarded a $119,484 project grant from the Department of the Interior's National Park Service Intermountain Region under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933). The grant will fund a project to catalog and digitize previously unseen photographs, documents, and ephemera from NJAHS' collections related to the ten War Relocation Authority (WRA) incarceration sites and several Department...

The Wing Luke Memorial Foundation, doing business as the Wing Luke Asian Museum in Seattle, Washington, received a $149,468 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant will support the museum's education and tours staff to develop new online curriculum, conduct teacher training workshops, and offer live-virtual tours focused on Asian Pacific...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee received a $295,800 Project Grant award from the National Park Service under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933), effective September 30, 2025, through September 30, 2027. The award supports the expansion and interpretation of museum content focused on the Crystal City Detention Center, the only family detention facility operated by the Department of Justice during World War II Japanese...

The Northwest Film Forum received a $220,725 project grant award from the Department of the Interior National Park Service Intermountain Region. The grant was awarded under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933) to support projects that identify, research, evaluate, interpret, protect, and conserve sites where Japanese Americans were detained during World War II. The funding period was from August 1, 2021 to February 25, 2022. As the sub-awardee, the...

The federal Project Grant award P24AP01822 in the amount of $1,277,100.82 was provided by the National Park Service's Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) Grant Program. The grant supports the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation's efforts to restore and stabilize the last remaining root cellar built by Japanese American incarcerees at the Heart Mountain incarceration site in Park County, Wyoming. Previous JACS grants have funded earlier phases of restoration and...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Park Service awarded the National Japanese American Historical Society Inc. a $1.52 million Project Grant effective September 16, 2025, under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933). The award funds the Fragile Freedoms Project, a three-year initiative designed to advance educator capacity and student understanding of Japanese American World War II (WWII) incarceration history. The project will deliver professional...