Project Grant PG26666119

The Black Archives History Research Foundation of South Florida was awarded a $719,535 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program to expand public access to its collections through digitization and virtual research services. Specifically, the Foundation will purchase archival supplies and a large format scanner to digitize its periodical collection, notably the Miami Times collection of South...

The City of Houston HPL Financial Services Division, the awardee, will use a $100,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (CFDA 45.309 - Museum Grants for African American History and Culture) to digitize and make accessible over 1,400 vulnerable audiovisual materials from the African American history collection of the Houston Public Library. The project will involve hiring a full-time contract archivist to coordinate the digitization process with an external vendor, as...

The Meek-Eaton Southeastern Regional Black Archives Research Center and Museum (MEBA) at Florida A&M University will use a $726,884 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program to build its digital capacity and expand public services for its collections. Key activities include hiring a full-time archivist to assist with inventorying, cataloging, and rehousing collections; creating and updating finding...

The Amistad Research Center received a $522,408 federal Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (AAHC) program. The award, effective July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2027, will enable the institution to hire a full-time reference archivist and metadata specialist to address a backlog in cataloging books, rare publications, and the digital American Missionary Association photographs collection. Staff will...

The Dusable Black History Museum & Education Center received a $100,000 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (AAHC) program (CFDA 45.309). The grant will enable the museum to create a digital catalog and finding aid for its collection of over 1,000 boxes of materials related to the history of civic engagement of African Americans in Chicago. The project will involve moving materials out of...

The Withers Collection, Inc., a non-profit organization, received a $100,000 federal Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (AAHC) program (CFDA 45.309). The grant will fund the enhancement of the museum's stewardship of its collection by archivally storing and digitizing approximately 4,000 photographs from its collection that document civil rights history and African American life and culture....

The Weeksville Society will use this $703,414 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (CFDA 45.309) program to complete a comprehensive collections inventory and increase public access to the Weeksville Heritage Center's collections documenting the history of Weeksville, one of the largest free Black communities in pre-Civil War America. Key project activities include cataloging unprocessed collection items,...

This $500,000 National Endowment for the Humanities project grant funds the creation of a new digital imaging studio and staff positions at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The studio and staff will expand the Library's digitized collections of African American, African, and African Diasporic materials. Specifically, the grant supports the establishment of a satellite digital imaging unit and the hiring of two full-time positions to increase the...

The University of Maryland, College Park was awarded a $578,780 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (AAHC) federal grant program (CFDA 45.309). The grant will fund a three-year project to increase accessibility of three archival collections from African American artists: the papers of artist Alonzo Davis, interviews and field notes of artist and scholar Michael D. Harris, and documents of artist...

The $100,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (AAHC) program will support the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture in Charlotte, North Carolina. The grant will enable the center to improve collections stewardship by migrating its inventory into a new collections management database and purchasing custom storage solutions for its permanent collection, which...