Project Grant P25AP01333
- This $519,362 federal Project Grant award from the National Park Service's Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) program will fund the design and installation of a permanent exhibit inside the sole surviving root cellar built by Japanese Americans incarcerated at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming during World War II. The exhibit will highlight the critical role of agriculture at the Heart Mountain camp, illustrating how incarcerees transformed desert...
- This $189,575 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will support two one-week workshops for educators to learn about the Japanese American incarceration during World War II. The workshops will utilize faculty members from the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation staff as well as outside experts. The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, a non-profit organization, operates the Heart...
- 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...
- 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 Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program, administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service (CFDA 15.933), awarded a $2,494,369 Project Grant to Densho, a Seattle-based nonprofit organization. The grant funds the development of the Densho Educational Engagement Platform (DEEP), a comprehensive, AI-assisted digital platform to support educators in effectively utilizing high-quality historical content related to Japanese American incarceration...
- The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation will receive $378,826 from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development federal grant program (CFDA 45.163) to conduct the "Echoes of History: Mistreatment and Incarceration in the American West" project from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2024. The Foundation will host two week-long workshops in June and July of 2023 that explore the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World...
- 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...
This $1,165,643 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) program aims to enhance understanding of the history and legacy of Japanese American incarceration during World War II. The grant recipient, the Wyoming Foundation Heart Mountain (doing business as Heart Mountain WY Foundation), will undertake three key initiatives: 1) Promoting social connection and participatory learning through a Nikkei community platform and Japanese American legacy flashcards for K-12 teachers, students, and camp descendants; 2) Conducting traveling teacher workshops to equip educators with resources and knowledge to effectively teach this history; and 3) Delivering professional ethics seminars to instill a commitment to understanding and addressing historical injustices among future professionals. These efforts are intended to broaden awareness and foster connections to this critical aspect of American history. The grant period runs from September 30, 2025, through September 30, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $776.8k | 9/11/25 |