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 Northwest Film Forum received a $220,725 project grant award from the Department of the Interior National Park Service Intermountain Region. The grant was awarded under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933) to support projects that identify, research, evaluate, interpret, protect, and conserve sites where Japanese Americans were detained during World War II. The funding period was from August 1, 2021 to February 25, 2022. As the sub-awardee, the...
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 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...
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 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 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 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 National Park Service (NPS) awarded a $593,656 Save America's Treasures (CFDA 15.929) Project Grant to the Poston Community Alliance, Inc. to support physical preservation and restoration of several historic adobe school buildings at the Poston World War II Japanese American internment camp site. This grant funding will facilitate stabilization, weatherproofing, security enhancements, and restoration of the rare surviving adobe structures, enabling continued public access and educational...
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...