Project Grant PE29603324

This $350,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) supports the SAADA Summer Fellowship in Community Archiving program. The two-year project, starting on September 1, 2024, will provide master's-level students with training in community archival practices and digital preservation focused on preserving South Asian American cultural heritage materials. Fellows will learn skills such as digitization, metadata creation, oral history interview techniques, and ethical storytelling. They will also create a digital collection and curate an exhibit highlighting a South Asian American community. As a subrecipient, the South Asian American Digital Archive NFP (Saada) will leverage its expertise in community-based archiving to deliver this program and make these humanities materials more widely accessible.