Project Grant P22AP01707
- 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 University of Arkansas was awarded a $495,513 federal Project Grant from the National Park Service's Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) program, with a project period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026. Under this grant, the university will develop educational curricula and lesson plans for grades 7-12, as well as three professional development workshops for Arkansas teachers, focused on the Rohwer and Jerome incarceration sites in Arkansas. The...
- Grant Award Summary The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service awarded the National Japanese American Historical Society Inc. a $1.52 million Project Grant under CFDA 15.933 (Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites) on September 16, 2025, for implementation through September 16, 2028. The awardee will launch the Fragile Freedoms Project to deliver professional development and educational resources to over 500 classroom educators and confinement site education staff...
- 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...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation received $1,165,643 from the Department of the Interior National Park Service under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933) on September 30, 2025. The award supports a three-year project (through September 30, 2028) designed to enhance public understanding of Japanese American incarceration during World War II through interconnected educational and community engagement initiatives. The...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Department of the Interior's National Park Service awarded a Project Grant of $315,314 to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on September 22, 2025, under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933). The award funds a comprehensive archaeological and archival research initiative focused on documenting the history and material remains of the Moab Citizen Isolation Center (MCIC), a World War II-era Japanese...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Park Service (NPS) awarded $503,362 to Densho through the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) program on September 30, 2025, to support a cross-regional initiative documenting Japanese American resettlement communities in the Midwest and East Coast. The project will conduct up to twenty oral histories with aging survivors and their descendants, publish new and updated encyclopedia articles for each region, and...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Park Service awarded $519,362 to the Wyoming Foundation Heart Mountain on September 15, 2025, under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933) to design and install a permanent exhibit within the sole surviving root cellar constructed by Japanese Americans incarcerated at Heart Mountain during World War II. Following a decade-long restoration effort, the exhibit will interpret the critical role of agriculture...
- 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 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...
FUNDING OPPORTUNITY NUMBER P21AS00034FUNDING OPPORTUNITY GOALS TEXT THE JAPANESE AMERICAN CONFINEMENT SITES JACS GRANT PROGRAM PUBLIC LAW 109 441, 120 STAT 3288 PROVIDES FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO ORGANIZATIONS AND ENTITIES WORKING TO PRESERVE HISTORIC JAPANESE AMERICAN CONFINEMENT SITES AND THEIR HISTORY, INCLUDING PRIVATE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS STATE, LOCAL, AND TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS AND OTHER PUBLIC ENTITIES, FOR THE PRESERVATION AND INTERPRETATION OF U S CONFINEMENT SITES WHERE JAPANESE AMERICANS WERE DETAINED DURING WORLD WAR II REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL AGREEMENTSPURPOSE OF AWARD SUMMARY OF THE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT OVERARCHING GOAL TO PRESERVE AND INTERPRET THE HISTORY AND IMPACTS OF JAPANESE AMERICAN INCARCERATION DURING WORLD WAR II OBJECTIVES TO CREATE AN EVENT TO COMMEMORATE THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE JEROME AND ROHWER INCARCERATION SITES SUMMARY OF PROJECT SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES NORTHWEST FILM FORUM AND JAPANESE AMERICAN MEMORIAL PILGRIMAGES WILL HOST AN IN PERSON AND VIRTUAL PILGRIMAGE TO THE JEROME AND ROHWER SITES IN ARKANSAS TO COMMEMORATE THE EIGHTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE OPENINGS OF THE JEROME AND ROHWER CAMPS WHILE PROVIDING A SPACE FOR ELDERS TO SHARE THEIR STORIES AND AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNGER GENERATIONS TO LEARN AND PARTICIPATE THIS HYBRID EVENT WILL PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR BROAD PARTICIPATION THROUGH IN PERSON ACTIVITIES IN MCGEHEE, ARKANSAS AND VIRTUAL ACTIVITIES PROGRAMMING WILL INCLUDE PANEL AND SMALL GROUP DISCUSSIONS AND ORAL HISTORY AND ARTIFACT WORKSHOPS PERFORMANCE GOALS INCLUDING MILESTONES AND EXPECTED OUTCOMES DEVELOPMENT OF A 3 DAY IN PERSON AND VIRTUAL PILGRIMAGE RECORDINGS OF DISCUSSIONS AND ACTIVITIES MADE ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC AND REPORT HIGHLIGHTING SUCCESSES AND RELEVANT STATISTICS BENEFICIARIES THE PUBLIC EDUCATORS NPS JACS SITES ORGANIZATIONS PRESERVING JACS SITES AND HISTORY
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| Not listed | $0 | 3/6/24 | ||
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| Not listed | $60.6k | 8/15/22 |