Project Grant P17AP00153

The Densho Project was awarded a $382,925 Project Grant by the National Park Service under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) program. The grant will fund a two-year initiative by the Seattle-based nonprofit organization to strengthen its capacity for conducting oral history interviews and preserving narratives related to the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. Specifically, Densho will launch a comprehensive oral history training program to...

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...

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...

The University of Connecticut has been awarded a $370,325 Project Grant from the National Park Service's Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) program. The grant will support the development of the "FUDEKO PROJECT: A Japanese American Digital Journaling Project", which aims to engage approximately 10 Japanese American survivors in recording their personal narratives and experiences of incarceration during World War II. Participants will document their...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee received a $295,800 Project Grant from the Department of the Interior's National Park Service under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933), effective September 30, 2025, through September 30, 2027. This award funds the expansion of museum content and historical documentation related to the Crystal City Detention Center, the only family detention facility operated by the Department of...

Federal Grant Award Summary The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) received a $315,314 Project Grant from the Department of the Interior's National Park Service under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) program, awarded September 22, 2025, with a completion date of December 31, 2027. This award funds the Moab Citizen Isolation Center (MCIC) Archaeological Project, which will conduct three field seasons of comprehensive archaeological excavations and...

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...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation received a $1,165,643 project grant from the National Park Service under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933), awarded September 30, 2025, with completion targeted for September 30, 2028. This award supports a comprehensive educational initiative designed to enhance understanding of Japanese American incarceration during World War II through three primary deliverables: the...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Topaz Museum received a $222,400 Project Grant award, obligated on September 30, 2025, under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933), administered by the Department of the Interior's National Park Service. This award supports enhanced visitor experience and exhibit development at the museum through collaboration with a professional exhibit developer to evaluate existing facilities, exhibits, artifacts, and online...