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...
The Center for Jewish History, Inc. will receive $700,000 through a three-year Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. The Center will arrange, describe, and provide intellectual access to the records of the Council of Jewish Federations for the first time. Totaling 1,475 linear feet, the Council's records document 20th century American Jewish philanthropy and public service at the national...
The Medford Historical Society & Museum received a $11,985.80 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities on January 1, 2018 to support collections preservation assessment activities through June 30, 2019. The grant was awarded under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), which aims to preserve and provide intellectual access to primary humanities resources held in libraries, museums, and archives. Funds supported...
The Center for Jewish History in New York was awarded a $153,292 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the agency's Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) for the period of January 1, 2022 through August 31, 2024. The funding will support LONG-TERM RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS AT THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY IN NEW YORK, enabling the Center to provide fellowships for scholars to conduct humanities research using its resources. As indicated in the program...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $349,300 Project Grant to the American Jewish Historical Society under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). This 3-year project will process and digitize the regional office records series from the institutional archives of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which documents the organization's frontline initiatives to combat antisemitism, racism, and other forms of hate across over 25...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $213,238 Project Grant to The Center for Jewish History, Inc. under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161). The grant will fund three 12-month NEH Scholar in Residence Fellowships over a three-year period from January 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027. The NEH Scholar in Residence Fellowship supports high-level original research utilizing the Center's extensive collections on Jewish culture and history, the largest...
The Center for Jewish History, Inc. has received a $350,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to reconstruct the building envelope of its collection storage stacks. This project, which is part of the Center's broader sustainability initiative, will improve the preservation of its irreplaceable Jewish historical collections and reduce energy costs and emissions. The grant will cover 90% of the cost to...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $175,045 Project Grant to National History Day Inc. under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant will fund the "Moving Freedom Forward: Teaching a More Inclusive History" initiative, which combines teacher training and curriculum development to enhance classroom teaching and student learning about the histories of marginalized communities. The...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $349,999 under its Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program to the Huguenot Historical Society in New Paltz, New York. The three-year project grant will support the preservation, cataloging, digitization and online publication of historic documents from the Society's collections as well as materials from the Town of New Paltz, the Dutch Reformed Church of New Paltz, and the Haviland-Heidgerd Historical...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $341,959 project grant to the University of North Florida (UNF) and five local museums and historical societies under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The 36-month Archivist-in-Training program will provide intensive archival processing and preservation training to 30 undergraduate students, including paid semester-long internships at the local historical institutions. The...