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Three Sisters Kitchen received a $400,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) under the Economic Adjustment Assistance (EAA) program. The award will support Three Sisters Kitchen in establishing a pre-planning design development strategy to conceptualize a downtown Albuquerque local food campus. The campus aims to build a resilient and sustainable local food economy in central New Mexico by helping local growers and food producers...

Stone Soup Productions Inc. was awarded a $149,420 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164). The grant will support the development phase of Stone Soup Productions' "The People's Recorder" podcast series, which will explore the legacy of the 1930s Works Progress Administration Federal Writers' Project and discuss its achievements, shortcomings, and relevance today. The...

This $974,414 federal Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants program supports George Mason University, in collaboration with several partners, to develop a community archiving prototype and training materials. The key objectives are to: (1) create the Archives for Racial and Cultural Healing (ARCH) National Collaborative, (2) support the Chipman ARCH project as a prototype and develop curriculum/practices for future ARCH regional...

The Museum of Chinese in the Americas was awarded a $150,000 Project Grant by the National Archives and Records Administration under the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003) to digitize and make available 150 oral histories from 11 oral history collections documenting the lived experiences of Chinese Americans across the United States. The collections include oral histories on topics such as Chinese American identity, communities like Chinatown and Sunset...

The 1947 Partition Archive will receive $161,717 under a Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program to pilot the Digital Oral History Archivist Student Fellowship Program. The Fellowship will introduce high school and college students, particularly those from South Asian American backgrounds, to the field of community-based archives through hands-on experiences in cataloging, handling, and preserving digitally archived oral...

The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded $706,008 under the Community Food Projects Competitive Grant Program to Mandela Partners for the Ashland Community Kitchen Initiative in Oakland, California. The initiative will transform a 623 square foot space into a culturally relevant commercial kitchen to increase access to sustainably grown produce and production capacity for limited-resource food entrepreneurs. Specifically, Mandela Marketplace will...

The Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (JACCC) received a $125,000 Project Grant award from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003). The grant will fund JACCC's efforts to preserve and digitize historical records related to Japanese American foodways and culinary experiences during World War II internment camps. The project aims to deepen national understanding of the Japanese...

The La Mama Experimental Theatre Club received a $131,906 project grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Save America's Treasures federal grant program. The award will support the ongoing effort to preserve and digitize the organization's archival materials documenting the off-off Broadway movement from 1991 to 2008. Key deliverables include cataloging paper materials such as programs, flyers, posters, production notes, and photographs. New catalog records...

The Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to support cataloging and digitizing approximately 62 hours of film footage and 90 hours of videotape from the documentary "A Life Apart: Hasidism in America, 1992-1996." The award was made under NARA's National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA #89.003) to undertake activities related to...

The Internet Archive received a $319,880 National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (CFDA 45.312) to expand and enhance the Archives Research Compute Hub (ARCH), an open-source platform supporting computational analysis of web archives collections. The project will create user-informed workflows and continue software development to enable a diverse set of library, archive, and museum partners to add collections to ARCH for upload, discovery, and computational...