Project Grant PN29350723
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $451,162 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to Appalshop Inc., a non-profit media and arts organization in Whitesburg, Kentucky. The grant will fund the treatment and digitization of three major Appalachian photonegative collections that were damaged by flooding in July 2022. The project will preserve and provide access to images documenting Eastern Kentucky and...
- 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 a $349,126 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to Christiansburg Institute, Inc. The objective of this 2-year grant, with a performance period from June 2024 to May 2026, is to digitize four data-rich school and community collections related to the Christiansburg Institute, a historically Black educational institution in Virginia. The digitization effort will create...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded East Tennessee State University a $225,266 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will provide online access to over 30,000 artifacts, photographs, audio recordings, and manuscripts from the university's Reece Museum and Archives of Appalachia. Three staff will be hired and undergraduates employed to process and digitize collections, apply metadata...
- This $147,371 federal Project Grant was awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant aims to collaborate with residents of East St. Louis, Illinois to build an archive documenting their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The project has two key components: conducting oral histories with community elders and first responders, and organizing community-based archiving events...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through its Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), awarded a $348,758 project grant to the American Congregational Association to digitize, describe, transcribe, and make accessible 22,000 pages of early church records from the New England region. The project, titled "NEHH: Recovering Untold Stories from Revolutionary New England," aims to recover the experiences of African American and...
- This $349,999 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), will fund a project by Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to digitize, transcribe, and preserve 17th-century court records related to escaped enslaved laborers and indentured servants in the Chesapeake region. The project will create a publicly accessible database and...
- This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) provides $143,386.00 to support the curation and circulation of the Gullah/Geechee Alkebulan Archive over a two-year period from February 2024 to January 2026. The project, led by the Regents of the University of Minnesota, aims to collect and curate oral histories and cultural artifacts related to the Gullah/Geechee Nation through community-based events. The...
- This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) provides $283,189 to Winston-Salem State University to conduct an ethnographic study of the experiences of Black faculty, especially women, teaching at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The project, titled "Amplifying Our Voices: The HBCU Experience Among Black Faculty," seeks to examine the culture and nuanced...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $132,760 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program to The Museum At Bethel Woods, a non-profit organization. The grant, titled "1960S ORAL HISTORIES – NEW YORK COMMUNITY CONNECTORS", will fund a project to organize, connect, and collect stories of the 1960s counterculture experience in New York City, with a focus on gathering stories from underrepresented voices...
This $136,500 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program supports a 2-year project by Appalshop Inc. to identify, preserve, and amplify Black Appalachian experiences and voices in central Appalachia. The project involves cultural mapping of Black churches and faith experiences, collecting oral histories from an integrated community in Kentucky, and participating in residencies with other organizations working with historically disadvantaged communities. Key project activities include archiving, community development, and performing arts programming across Appalshop's programs to document and share Black Appalachian heritage.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $136.5k | 9/18/23 |