Project Grant P23AP01458
- 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 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 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...
- Grant Award Summary The National Park Service awarded Densho a $2.49 million Project Grant under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933) effective September 30, 2025, with a completion date of September 30, 2028. Densho is developing the Densho Educational Engagement Platform (DEEP), a comprehensive, artificial intelligence-assisted digital platform designed to support educators in teaching about Japanese American World War II incarceration. The platform...
- 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 Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (JACCC) was awarded a $125,000 Project Grant by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003). The grant funding will be used to preserve and digitize historical records about Japanese American foodways and culinary experiences during World War II internment camps. The project aims to deepen national understanding of the Japanese American experience...
- 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 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...
- This $163,304 National Endowment for the Humanities project grant funds Densho, a public history organization in Seattle, Washington, to restart its oral history program on the Japanese American World War II incarceration and its aftermath. The grant provides funding from January 2022 through December 2023 for staffing and equipment to conduct, process, and preserve oral histories with individuals impacted by Japanese American internment. As part of the NEH's Promotion of the Humanities Division...
- 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 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 Densho's online encyclopedia, interactive map-based website, names registry, and other public programs and resources. The overall goal of this JACS Grant is to preserve and share the history and impacts of the Japanese American incarceration experience during WWII for the benefit of the public, educators, National Park Service sites, and other organizations engaged in related preservation and education efforts.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $291.5k | 7/31/23 |