Project Grant P25AP01473
- 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 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 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 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...
- 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 Japanese American National Museum (JANM) was awarded a $978,044 Project Grant from the National Park Service under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) program. The grant will fund the redesign of JANM's core exhibition titled "In the Future We Call Now: Realities of Racism, Dreams of Democracy." The new exhibition will be the country's largest and most comprehensive exhibition focused on sharing the experiences of Japanese American communities...
- 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...
- 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 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 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...
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 scrubland into productive farms. The exhibit will feature content drawn from primary sources, including historic photos, films, records, oral histories, and memoirs, in consultation with former incarcerees. Guided tours of the root cellar will be offered, and a dedicated website section and documentary film will also be developed to bring nationwide attention to the project. This grant will preserve and interpret this historically significant confinement site, educating present and future generations about the Japanese American experience during World War II internment.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $342.9k | 9/15/25 |