Project Grant P25AP01331
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation received $1,165,643 from the Department of the Interior National Park Service under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933) on September 30, 2025. The award supports a three-year project (through September 30, 2028) designed to enhance public understanding of Japanese American incarceration during World War II through interconnected educational and community engagement initiatives. The...
- 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...
- 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...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Department of the Interior's National Park Service awarded a Project Grant of $315,314 to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on September 22, 2025, under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933). The award funds a comprehensive archaeological and archival research initiative focused on documenting the history and material remains of the Moab Citizen Isolation Center (MCIC), a World War II-era Japanese...
- 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 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 $180,567 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will enable the Japanese American National Museum to host a program that invites educators from across the country to Los Angeles to examine the history and ongoing impacts on the Little Tokyo neighborhood. The project will study how events and issues like restrictive covenants, World War II incarceration, eminent domain,...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Utah State University received $590,660.54 in Project Grant funding from the National Park Service under CFDA 15.933 (Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites) to plan, design, and interpret the Kooskia Internment Camp in northern Idaho. The award, obligated on September 17, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of December 31, 2027, supports a publicly-engaged planning and design process that will develop interpretive pathway alternatives, signage, and...
- 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...
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 across 12 Japanese American World War II confinement and historically related sites. Key deliverables include professional leadership workshops, teacher-to-teacher networking initiatives, innovative curriculum development, primary and secondary source research, and in-depth field sessions designed to enhance educators' capacity to teach the Japanese American incarceration experience and its historical significance. The project employs historic inquiry and place-based pedagogy to develop model teaching units that will inform present and future student learning about Japanese American confinement and equal justice principles. Beneficiaries span multiple stakeholder categories, including nonprofit and educational institutions, government entities, research scientists, and the general public. This initiative supports the Norman Y. Mineta Japanese American Confinement Education Grants Program, which was established by Congress under Public Law 117-328 to advance educational understanding of Japanese American incarceration during World War II.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $1.0m | 9/16/25 |