Project Grant PG27180720

The Bay Area Video Coalition, Incorporated (BAVC) received a $215,186 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. The grant will fund a national study of audiovisual preservation to be conducted between March 2023 and February 2025. As part of the study, BAVC will design and implement surveys, interviews, and site visits to assess the demographics, practices, challenges, and needs of organizations...

This $149,779 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will support the deployment of a full-time Rapid Response Community Archivist to advance digital preservation and curation activities within tribal libraries, archives, and museums across at least six of Wisconsin's twelve Native Nations over a two-year period. The Archivist will provide culturally relevant technical...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) awarded a $321,793 Project Grant to the Texas After Violence Project (TAVP) for the "Archival Belonging: A Guide to Community- and Care-Centered Archiving" project. This 3-year initiative aims to develop a curriculum and toolkit for community archivists and memory workers that is grounded in community-centered archival ethics and practices. The project seeks to build capacity among...

This $1,565,565 Project Grant awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Save America's Treasures (CFDA 15.929) program will enable Appalshop Inc., a non-profit media and arts organization in Whitesburg, Kentucky, to digitally preserve nearly 700 hours of its audiovisual collection documenting the history of Appalachia. The project activities will include the cleaning and digitization of flood-damaged film and videotape following a catastrophic flood event in 2023 that...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $150,000 Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (CFDA 45.169) to Urban Archive, Inc., a Brooklyn-based non-profit organization, to support Phase 4 of their Collections Management and Engagement Program (CMEP). This project aims to enhance Urban Archive's award-winning digital infrastructure, which provides a location-based digital platform and collections management system for cultural organizations across New York State and beyond. The...

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 $131,116 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, doing business as the Health Sciences Division, for the project "A RIVER OF MEMORIES: PRESERVING LIVED EXPERIENCE IN THE BORDERLANDS OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY, TEXAS". This grant, with a performance period from May 1, 2024 to December 31, 2025,...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded Kawaiaha'o Church Corporation $100,000 under the Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services Program (NANH-Museums) to hire an archivist to oversee management of its historical sites and archive library as the church undertakes a mold remediation project from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2025. The archivist will help coordinate relocation of the archival collection, oversee contractors performing mold remediation, and work with the project...

The Utah Community Preservation Program (UCPP) is a $347,604 Project Grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities on March 1, 2021 with a completion date of February 28, 2024. The grant is funded through 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, archives, and historic sites. Under this award, the Utah Division of Arts...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management under the Eastern Nevada Conservation, Recreation and Development program (CFDA 15.017), will support CyArk and the Arborglyph Collaborative in documenting and preserving the unique arborglyphs (tree carvings) found on quaking aspen trees in Lincoln County, Nevada. The $143,300 project will utilize advanced 3D documentation technologies such as LiDAR scanning and photogrammetry to create a...