Project Grant P25AP02260
- 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...
- 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 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 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...
- 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...
- 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 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 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...
- 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 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, facilities, and online presence while incorporating community stakeholder input gathered through professionally facilitated focus groups and workshops. The primary deliverables include a comprehensive assessment of existing exhibits and artifacts, concept designs for new exhibits with dedicated interpretation of the recently discovered James Hatsuaki Wakasa Memorial Stone, and a prioritized implementation roadmap for subsequent projects. This initiative addresses the significant community impact of newly acquired historical items and supports the National Park Service's mandate to preserve and interpret the ten major Japanese American World War II confinement sites. The project is scheduled for completion by December 31, 2026.Federal Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $148.0k | 9/24/25 |