Project Grant PN29585724
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program awarded a $148,054 project grant to the San Jose State University Research Foundation to implement the "Resisting Erasure and Asserting Afghan Cultural and Community Resilience" initiative. This community-engaged humanities project seeks to collect and publicly preserve the stories, cultural heritage, and resilience of first- and second-generation Afghan...
- 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...
- This Project Grant award for $132,462 from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will fund the "Pandemic Voces from the Richman Neighborhood" community-based oral history project. The project will record 30 oral history interviews, approximately 20 in Spanish, with residents of the predominantly Latinx, Spanish-speaking, and underserved Richman neighborhood in Fullerton, California to capture...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $150,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the South Asian American Digital Archive NFP (SAADA) to document the resilience, innovation, and community-building of South Asian American small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project, titled "?STILL STANDING?: STORIES OF RESILIENCE FROM SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN SMALL BUSINESSES", will train...
- The University of California, Irvine (UCI) received a $349,486 project grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to implement processes for ethically preserving and maximizing public accessibility of its "PrisonPandemic" collection. This collection contains thousands of letters and hundreds of phone calls from incarcerated individuals describing their experiences in prison...
- 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 deploy 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 the 2-year award period from April 2025 to March 2027, the Community Archivist will provide...
- This $163,304 National Endowment for the Humanities project grant funds Densho, a public history organization in Seattle, Washington, to restart its oral history program on the Japanese American World War II incarceration and its aftermath. The grant provides funding from January 2022 through December 2023 for staffing and equipment to conduct, process, and preserve oral histories with individuals impacted by Japanese American internment. As part of the NEH's Promotion of the Humanities Division...
- 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 National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $12,627,300 Project Grant to the California Humanities organization under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). The grant funded 20 documentary films, podcasts, and digital projects created by 19 independent producers and organizations in California between November 1, 2016 and October 31, 2021. The projects explored diverse topics from the history of Asian and LGBTQ communities to agricultural...
- The Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco (CCC) received a $115,521 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) on March 1, 2024. The grant funds the Chinatown Cultural Resilience Project, which aims to inventory, collect, and make accessible place-based intangible cultural assets in San Francisco's Chinatown via oral histories and multimedia records. This cultural assets and safeguarding planning project...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $149,851 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The "COMMUNITY ARCHIVAL RESILIENCE AND ENGAGEMENT (CARE): VOICES OF AA ELDERS IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA" project will preserve and provide access to oral histories and community archival materials documenting the experiences of elderly Asian American residents in San Francisco during the COVID-19 and anti-Asian hate pandemics. The project will train young community members to conduct photovoice oral histories with elders and offer archival preservation workshops, with the resulting materials made publicly accessible through the UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library. The project aims to explore themes of impact, survival, community, and resilience, considering how the elders' past experiences and cultural practices have helped them navigate the current crises.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $149.9k | 2/26/24 |