The Bishop Museum was awarded a $491,368 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169). The grant will support the "Mau Ka Leo" project to digitize the Museum's collections and make them publicly accessible online through narrative components and multimedia created by Hawaiian staff. Specifically, the project will retain 15 positions and hire a digital humanities specialist to...
The National Science Foundation Division of Biological Infrastructure awarded a $109,530 project grant to the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii to support the "Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research: Bringing Asia to Digital Life: Mobilizing Underrepresented Asian Herbarium Collections in the US to Propel Biodiversity Discovery" effort. The grant period runs from September 15, 2021 through August 31, 2025. Under this award, the Bishop Museum will digitize underrepresented Asian plant...
The Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii was awarded a $513,137 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The award supports the launch of "Ka Ula Wena: Oceanic Red", an exhibition organized by Native Hawaiian curators in partnership with Hawaiian and Pacific knowledge-holders. The exhibition will highlight rarely seen cultural objects from the museum's collections as well as Oceanic objects on loan that feature the...
The National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded a $697,754 Project Grant under the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (CFDA 10.912) to the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. The grant, titled "Eliminating Critical Bottlenecks to Conservation in Hawaii. Developing Information Resources and an Island-Wide Network of Native Seed Producers," aims to address conservation challenges in Hawaii by establishing an island-wide...
The federal Cooperative Agreement award of $400,000.00 was provided by the Department of Defense Washington Headquarters Service Office of Economic Adjustment under the Community Economic Adjustment Assistance for Compatible Use and Joint Land Use Studies program (CFDA 12.610). The award was granted to the Bishop Museum, a non-profit organization based in Honolulu, Hawaii, on September 30, 2024, with a performance period extending through September 29, 2034. The purpose of this award is to...
The federal Project Grant award of $565,859.75 was provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects program (CFDA 84.215). The grant will fund the "HAWAI'I ALIVE DIGITAL CURRICULUM" project, which aims to develop and improve literacy skills for...
The National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $220,703 Project Grant to the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal grant program. The three-year award beginning May 1, 2023 will support collaborative research between the Bishop Museum and University of Hawaii at Manoa to address knowledge gaps critical to advancing conservation of native Hawaiian land flora and fauna. Specifically, the grantees will conduct microbial...
The Department of the Interior National Park Service awarded a $200,000 Save America's Treasures project grant to the Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission (HPHC) to provide new collection storage space and rehouse the state's archaeological collections. This grant is funded through the Congressionally Directed Spending program and will be completed by September 30, 2026. The Save America's Treasures grants, authorized under CFDA 15.929, provide matching funds for...
The National Park Service awarded a $1,252,542 Historic Preservation Fund - Grants-In-Aid (CFDA 15.904) Project Grant to the State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) on October 1, 2024. This three-year grant will support DLNR's comprehensive historic preservation efforts across Hawaii, including architectural services, historic structure reports, preservation planning, physical preservation of historic sites, documentation of cultural heritage, and support for...
The Hawaii State Archives will receive $216,982 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services Program (CFDA 45.308) to digitize over 100,000 architectural photographs from the 20th century and make them accessible online in both Hawaiian and English. Specifically, the grant will fund the digitization of high resolution files from more than 40 boxes of photographs, slides, and prints from renowned Hawaiian architects David Franzen...