Project Grant PN29593224
- The National Public Housing Museum received a $409,752 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' (IMLS) Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant supports the museum's development of a participatory exhibition and public programming that explores the role of music in the development of public housing communities, and the role of these communities in the creation and celebration of music. The exhibition and programming will be co-curated with current and former...
- 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 Public Housing Museum was awarded a $258,550 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301). The grant will fund a two-year project to create a series of rotating exhibitions about the history of public housing in Los Angeles, Saint Louis, and the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. The museum will use a participatory approach, engaging with housing authorities and residents in these locations to give voice and perspective to...
- This $148,988 Project Grant was awarded on October 1, 2023 by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program. The grant funding will support the "Mott Haven History Keepers" project, which aims to identify, honor, and invest in members of the Mott Haven community in the South Bronx who are serving as "history keepers" and repositories of the neighborhood's history, despite not being...
- The Indiana Medical History Museum received a $185,679 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The funding will support a two-year initiative to improve storage and environmental conditions for the museum's important visual collections, which will help preserve and expand public access to these humanities resources. The project aims to share lessons learned with other institutions...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program awarded a $148,955 Project Grant to the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey (UPR Cayey) to implement the "Collective Care: Oral Histories of Climate Change in Puerto Rico" project. The project aims to preserve and improve access to a collection of oral histories documenting community-led responses to natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic in Puerto...
- This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) program, provides $3,131,435 to support emergency relief and educational programming for humanities organizations recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic. The awardee, National Writing Project, will administer approximately 50 subawards of $50,000 each to local, regional, and cross-regional cultural organizations between October 1, 2021 and September 30,...
- The Chicago History Museum (CHM) was awarded a $499k Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs to develop hybrid online and in-person humanities programs and resources from January 2022 through December 2023. CHM will use the funding to create a sustainable framework for connecting with audiences digitally and onsite, enhance its digital humanities content and archives to promote accessibility and interactivity, and center...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $181,039 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum Inc. The grant will support "Under One Roof: Teaching Immigration and Black History Through the NYC Tenements," a new series of two one-week, residential workshops for 60 middle and high school educators. These workshops, to be held at the Tenement Museum in New York City in July...
- The Boston Children's Museum will receive $220,175 from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to develop the "Our City" exhibition through community outreach and engagement. The Museum seeks to preserve humanities collections and staff by working with community members to identify meaningful objects from existing holdings, record oral histories, and install object vignettes and audio guides. Activities include...
The National Public Housing Museum received a $145,731 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to support the "Records of Resilience: Stories from Public Housing" initiative. This project aims to collect, preserve, and make accessible oral histories from current and former public housing residents across the United States. The museum will collaborate with these communities to capture first-hand narratives about their experiences of housing insecurity, as well as the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19, climate change, and environmental injustice. The resulting archive of oral histories will enhance the museum's existing collections and provide crucial insights into the resilience of public housing residents facing complex social and environmental challenges. The project will run from February 1, 2024 to January 31, 2026.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $145.7k | 1/31/24 |