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 Interior National Park Service Intermountain Region awarded a $179,041 Project Grant to the American Baptist Historical Society under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) federal grant program. The funding will support the Society's efforts to digitize and preserve archival documents and photographs related to the experience of Japanese Americans and the work of Northern Baptists who assisted those who were forcibly incarcerated during World...
The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) in Los Angeles, CA received a $626,478 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) program. The funding will support JANM's efforts to create a new permanent multi-gallery exhibition centered around a historic barrack from the Heart Mountain Relocation Center. This will include conserving, reinstalling, reimagining, protecting, and...
The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) was awarded a $978,044 Project Grant from the National Park Service under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) program. The grant will fund the redesign of JANM's core exhibition titled "In the Future We Call Now: Realities of Racism, Dreams of Democracy." The new exhibition will be the country's largest and most comprehensive exhibition focused on sharing the experiences of Japanese American communities...
The Department of the Interior National Park Service Intermountain Region awarded Densho, a nonprofit organization, a $476,743.00 Project Grant under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933). The grant will support Densho's efforts to preserve and interpret the history of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Specifically, Densho will undertake a major update of the Densho Encyclopedia, an important online resource providing accurate...
The Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (JACCC) was awarded a $390,737 Project Grant by the National Park Service's Intermountain Region under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) program. Through this two-year grant, the JACCC will research and interpret the foodways and agricultural practices of the World War II War Relocation Authority camps to deepen the nation's understanding of the Japanese American incarceration experience. The project will...
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 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 funds a project 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 through...
This federal Project Grant award of $300,000 was provided by the Department of the Interior's National Park Service Intermountain Region under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933). The funding will support Visual Communications Media, a non-profit media arts organization, to produce a 30-minute narrative film called "The Camera" that explores the intergenerational trauma and ongoing impacts of the Japanese American incarceration during World War...
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...