Project Grant PG23265016

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) has awarded a $299,211 Project Grant to La Mama Experimental Theatre Club Inc., a non-profit cultural organization in New York City. This 3-year grant (July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2027) will fund the "PRESERVING OFF-OFF-BROADWAY: EXPANDING ACCESS TO LA MAMA'S BORN-DIGITAL MATERIALS" project. The project will preserve, catalog, and publicly share La Mama's...

The Northeast Document Conservation Center, Inc. (NEDCC) received a two-year, $350,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. Through this funding, NEDCC will provide free preservation training, resources and assessments to ensure the long-term care of humanities collections. Specific deliverables include eight hands-on disaster preparedness workshops, eight general preservation...

The University of Hawaii at Manoa will digitize 890 motion picture film reels and videotapes from its Henry Kuualoha Moving Image Archive of Hawaii collections in order to provide access to historical materials documenting Hawaii's path to statehood and its varying impacts on native Hawaiian and Japanese American populations from the 1920s to 2000s. Funded by a $1,050,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under its Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation...

This federal Project Grant award of $349,423.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) supports the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) in expanding its "Circle of Care for Audiovisual Collections in Tribal Archives" initiative. The project aims to train tribal archivists and librarians in assessing, inventorying, digitizing, and managing audiovisual collections. Key activities include onsite workshops...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $350,000 Project Grant under the Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), a nonprofit preservation organization. Through this 2-year award, NEDCC will provide a range of preservation services and training resources to support the long-term care and stewardship of paper-based, photographic, audiovisual, and digital collections at cultural institutions across the...

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program, provides $260,952 to the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation to continue the Alvin Ailey Choreographic Legacy Project. The Project will historically preserve choreography from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater repertory for restaging by professional dance companies and universities through cataloging production notes, performance histories, and...

The Friends of Alice Austen House will receive $118,340 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Save America's Treasures program to increase access to and preserve portions of the paper-based collection at the Alice Austen House Museum in Staten Island, New York. The Friends will inventory, re-accession, catalog, rehouse and digitize letters, Victorian-era calling cards, and annotated negative sleeves from Austen's photographic work between October 2021 and March 2024. This...

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) provides $155,090 to Appalshop, Inc. to preserve and improve access to its archival collections relating to Appalachian history and culture. Through digitization efforts of photographic negatives from 1935 to 1955 and 16mm archival films, as well as purchasing scanning equipment, the award supports enhancing public access to these...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA) a $349,927 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) on March 1, 2026, with completion scheduled for February 29, 2028. This award funds preservation field services specifically designed to support small and medium-sized organizations through consultation and training, national educational programs, and a...

The Center for Jewish History, Inc. was awarded a $199,791 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support preservation and access activities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program. Through this funding, the Center will retain 14 core staff positions and hire one intern to sustain public-facing and preservation services. Key deliverables include preserving physical collections, increasing access through continued...