Project Grant P25AP01470
- 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...
- 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 Grant Award Summary The Topaz Museum received a $222,400 Project Grant awarded on September 30, 2025, under the National Park Service's Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933). The grant funds a comprehensive evaluation and planning initiative to enhance the visitor experience at the museum, which interprets the historic Topaz War Relocation Authority camp in Delta, Utah. The project will engage an exhibit developer to assess current exhibits,...
- Federal Grant Award Summary United Tribes Technical College (UTTC) received a $575,479 Project Grant from the National Park Service under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933), awarded September 30, 2025, with completion targeted for September 30, 2027. The grant supports Phase 2 of the Fort Lincoln historic site preservation project in Bismarck, North Dakota, which documents the confinement history of approximately 750 denationalized Japanese Americans...
- 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...
- 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...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Park Service awarded $519,362 to the Wyoming Foundation Heart Mountain on September 15, 2025, under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933) to design and install a permanent exhibit within the sole surviving root cellar constructed by Japanese Americans incarcerated at Heart Mountain during World War II. Following a decade-long restoration effort, the exhibit will interpret the critical role of agriculture...
- 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...
- 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 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...
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 visitor amenities to increase public awareness and accessibility of this World War II Japanese American confinement site. The project will conduct a cultural landscape study utilizing archival records, interviews, and existing condition documentation to create site-specific interpretive elements. The deliverables include digital documentation and analysis of archival materials to identify key historical points of interest, deployment of LIDAR technology to assess human activity and remnants of camp features, and enhanced interpretive resources that communicate the site's historical and cultural significance to visitors. The beneficiaries of this initiative encompass nonprofit and governmental organizations, research scientists, industry stakeholders, and the general public. This award aligns with the National Park Service's mission to preserve and interpret ten major Japanese American World War II confinement sites and related Department of Justice detention facilities.Federal Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $392.4k | 9/17/25 |