Project Grant P25AP02186
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 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...
- 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'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 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
The Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee received a $295,800 Project Grant from the National Park Service under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933) awarded on September 30, 2025, with completion targeted for September 30, 2027. The grant supports the expansion of museum content and historical documentation focused on the Crystal City Detention Center, the only family detention center operated by the Department of Justice during World War II Japanese American incarceration. The deliverables include developing and deploying a touring exhibit designed to engage former internees, their descendants, and current Crystal City residents in sharing personal narratives and artifacts. The project also encompasses archival research conducted at the National Archives and Library of Congress to enhance public understanding of the detention center's unique operational role and historical significance. These activities aim to build community awareness and foster participation from multiple stakeholder groups, including nonprofit organizations, public and private institutions, researchers, policymakers, and the general public.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $197.2k | 9/23/25 |