Project Grant P17AP00151

The National Park Service (NPS) awarded a $593,656 Save America's Treasures (CFDA 15.929) Project Grant to the Poston Community Alliance, Inc. to support physical preservation and restoration of several historic adobe school buildings at the Poston World War II Japanese American internment camp site. This grant funding will facilitate stabilization, weatherproofing, security enhancements, and restoration of the rare surviving adobe structures, enabling continued public access and educational...

The Brookland Center for Community Economic Change (BCCEC) was awarded a $499,576 project grant from the National Park Service's Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program to rehabilitate the former Lakeview School in West Columbia, South Carolina. The Lakeview School was the last segregated school for black residents in Lexington County. With this funding, BCCEC will renovate approximately 3,400 square feet of the former school's interior space in the first phase of the project. This will...

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...

The National Park Service awarded $500,000 under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program to the National Mary Potter Club Inc. to rehabilitate the vacant Mary Potter School Shop Building in Oxford, North Carolina. Funds will support work to install HVAC, plumbing, electrical and an elevator in the existing interior space. Upon completion by August 2025, the building will serve the public as a multi-purpose community and literacy center while also functioning as a tourist...

The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) in Los Angeles, CA received a $626,478 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) program. The funding will support JANM's efforts to create a new permanent multi-gallery exhibition centered around a historic barrack from the Heart Mountain Relocation Center. This will include conserving, reinstalling, reimagining, protecting, and...

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...

The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) was awarded a $978,044 Project Grant from the National Park Service under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) program. The grant will fund the redesign of JANM's core exhibition titled "In the Future We Call Now: Realities of Racism, Dreams of Democracy." The new exhibition will be the country's largest and most comprehensive exhibition focused on sharing the experiences of Japanese American communities...

The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) received a $444,426 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service Intermountain Region under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) program. Through this grant, UC Berkeley will conserve and digitize an archive of Japanese-language literary journals published at the Tule Lake Segregation Center during World War II. The university will establish a consultative...

This Project Grant award of $4,250,000 was made by the National Park Service (NPS) under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program (CFDA 15.904) to the University of South Carolina. The funding will be used to rehabilitate the Florence C. Benson Elementary School, a historic property listed or eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. The Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program supports a range of preservation activities including architectural services, historic...

The Elmore Bolling Foundation received a $264,199 Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior National Park Service National Office through the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program. The grant will support restoration and preservation activities at the historic Lowndesboro School in Lowndesboro, Alabama over a three year period ending September 2024. The Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program, identified by CFDA #15.904, provides congressionally mandated grants...