Project Grant P20AP00338

The National World War II Museum, Inc. received a $1,054,945 project grant award from the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration on April 15, 2021. The grant was awarded under the Economic Adjustment Assistance program (CFDA 11.307) to fund WWII campus improvements at the museum's location in New Orleans, LA. The EAA program supports regions facing adverse economic changes by providing infrastructure and public works assistance. Given the program's goal and the grant...

The National World War II Museum, Inc. was awarded a $3,000,000 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under the Economic Development Initiative, Community Project Funding, and Miscellaneous Grants program (CFDA 14.251). The award, dated August 13, 2024, will support a range of economic development and community development activities centered on preserving and interpreting the history of World War II. While the full scope of the project is not yet known, the...

This $263,860 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service (NPS) under the Cultural Resources Management program (CFDA 15.946) will fund a range of research, interpretation, and preservation projects by the National World War II Museum, Inc. in New Orleans, Louisiana. The award supports a broad scope of cultural resource stewardship activities, including inventory, monitoring, research, rehabilitation, restoration, preservation, documentation, data recovery, education, and...

The Department of the Navy awarded a $408,450 block grant to the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum on November 15, 2021 to support projects commemorating the 75th anniversary of World War II. The funding was provided through the Congressionally Directed Assistance program (CFDA 12.599), which supports Congressional priorities through assistance instruments. It is understood the museum will implement projects and activities between November 2021 and January 2022 to recognize the WWII anniversary,...

The North Carolina Museum of History Foundation, Inc. was awarded a $273,953 block grant from the Department of the Navy on November 1, 2021 to support products and services for the WWII 75th Anniversary through December 31, 2022. The funding was provided through the Congressionally Directed Assistance program (CFDA 12.599), which supports Congressional priorities through assistance instruments identified in the annual Department of Defense appropriations act. Specifically, the Museum will...

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 Department of the Navy, through its Secretary of the Navy and Chief of Naval Operations, awarded a $450,000 block grant to the American Veterans Center. The grant was awarded under the Congressionally Directed Assistance program (CFDA 12.599) to support a project commemorating the 75th anniversary of World War II between October 1, 2021 and January 21, 2022. The Congressionally Directed Assistance program funds Congressional priorities through assistance instruments awarded by the Department...

The Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration (EDA) awarded a $1.125 million Project Grant to the Louisiana Museum Foundation (LMF) on September 13, 2022 under the Economic Adjustment Assistance (EAA) program (CFDA #11.307). The grant funding will support campus improvements at the New Orleans Jazz Museum in Orleans County, Louisiana, including reconstructing the first-floor cafe, constructing an outdoor stage, and making other ground improvements. These infrastructure...

The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) received a $978,044 Project Grant from the National Park Service's Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) program. The grant will fund JANM's redesign of their core exhibition "In the Future We Call Now: Realities of Racism, Dreams of Democracy", which will be the country's largest and most comprehensive exhibition on the experiences of Japanese American communities during World War II. The project will incorporate...

The Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (JACCC) was awarded a $390,737 Project Grant from the National Park Service's Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) program. The grant will enable JACCC to research and interpret the foodways and agricultural practices of the War Relocation Authority camps during World War II in order to deepen the nation's understanding of the Japanese American incarceration experience. Key project activities include: Researching...