Funding opportunity number: P23AS00031. The japanese american confinement sites (jacs) grant program (public law 109-441, 120 stat. 3288) provides financial assistance to organizations and entities…

The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation received a $224,892 Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior National Park Service under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933). The grant will support the creation and installation of a permanent exhibit at the Mineta-Simpson Institute at Heart Mountain, highlighting the decades-long friendship between former Congressmen Norman Y. Mineta and Alan K. Simpson, who first met as Boy Scouts at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp during World War II. The exhibit will convey how the two leaders transcended cultural and political differences, with the goal of empowering visitors to engage in their own civic dialogues. The funding will cover the design, fabrication, and installation of interpretive panels, artifacts, and multimedia displays for the exhibit, which is expected to be completed by November 1, 2025.

Funding opportunity number: P23AS00031. 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. Purpose of award:overarching goal. To preserve and interpret the history and impacts of japanese american incarceration during world war II. Objectives. To complete planning for construction of visitor center to share the history of japanese americans during world war II. Summary of project specific activities: the heart mountain wyoming foundation will create and install a permanent exhibit on the lives and careers of the late secretary norman y. Mineta (democrat) and senator alan k. Simpson (republican). A decades-long friendship between mineta and simpson began in 1943 when they met as BOY scouts behind the barbed wire of wyomings heart mountain relocation center. The exhibit will convey how two former congressmen found ways to transcend cultural and political differences. The mineta-simpson institute at heart mountain will host the exhibit where this friendship will be used to empower visitors to engage in their own civic dialogues.performance goals including milestones and expected outcomes:design, fabrication and installation of exhibit, including interpretive panels, artifacts and multimedia displays. Beneficiaries:the public educators NPS jacs sites organizations preserving jacs sites and history