This $190,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will fund two one-week workshops in July and August 2024 for a total of 72 K-12 teachers. The workshops will focus on the history and cultural legacy of the Gullah-Geechee people, who are descendants of enslaved Africans in the Lowcountry region of Georgia. In partnership with Gullah-Geechee descendants, scholars, and institutions,...
This $300,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.149 - Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access) supports a two-year initiative led by the University of Georgia to build climate change resilience for the Gullah Geechee community on Sapelo Island, Georgia. The project will document culturally important sites and ecological knowledge in the island's salt marshes through human-scale photography, strengthening resiliency planning for this...
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 $341,959 federal 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 fund a 36-month Archivist-in-Training program at the University of North Florida (UNF), in partnership with five local museums and historical societies. The program will provide 30 undergraduate students with intensive training in archival processing and preservation, paid semester-long internships at the partner...
This Project Grant award of $343,197 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) supports the "Advancing Diversity in the Library Preservation Profession: Developing Summer Internships in Partnership with HBCUs" project. The project aims to introduce undergraduate students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to careers in librarianship, with a focus on preservation,...
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...
The Regents of the University of Minnesota was awarded a $149,923 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to conduct a 2-year participatory research project exploring indigenous reproductive health and reproductive justice (IRH/RJ) within the Dakota and Chamoru communities. Through a series of community-engaged conversations and storywork methods, the project will document and...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $345,896 Humanities Collections and Reference Resources implementation grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library organization. The two-year grant, effective July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2026, will fund the digitization of and permanent online access to nine local history collections from seven public libraries across the...
This Project Grant award of $133,971 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will support the "PRIDE IS OUR HERITAGE II: WEAVING ELDERS' STORIES & COMMUNITY RECONNECTION" project conducted by the Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe. The project aims to safeguard the knowledge and memories of tribal elders and encourage the intergenerational transmission of cultural practices disrupted by...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $149,445 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to The Anderson Center For Interdisciplinary Studies, Inc. for the "MISSISSIPPI DIALOGUES: A COMMUNITY COLLECTING INITIATIVE" project. This 17-month project aims to document local community histories and knowledge related to flooding and living with the Mississippi River, in order to foster climate resilience...