Project Grant PN30369725

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 award of $100,062 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129) will support the "Knowing Our History Through Chant: A Marianas Cultural Memory Project" conducted by the Guam Humanities Council. The grant will fund scholarly, humanities-based activities to document, preserve, and share chant practices, which are an important form of cultural heritage and knowledge-sharing throughout...

This federal Project Grant award for $256,664.00, provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), supports a collaborative oral history project focused on documenting the experiences of Spanish speakers and speakers of Latin American indigenous languages during the COVID-19 pandemic in Kansas. The key objectives of the project are to: Create and archive a collection of video-recorded pandemic...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (CFDA 11.431 - Climate and Atmospheric Research) provides $299,028 to the University of Hawaii at Hilo to investigate the potential for utilizing traditional indigenous seafaring knowledge to inform community-driven climate resilience strategies. The project aims to identify the current fragility of ancestral seafaring knowledge due to climate impacts and learn about the adaptive...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) awarded a $149,332 Project Grant to the University of Puerto Rico - Arecibo Campus for the "The Island Resilience Project: Cultural Heritage and Community Empowerment in Islote, Puerto Rico." This 2-year project, starting on March 1, 2024, aims to enhance the cultural and community resilience of the Islote, Puerto Rico community against climate change impacts through the...

The Office of the Governor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands will use a $230,914 Project Grant from the Department of the Interior's Economic, Social, and Political Development of the Territories program to educate and empower the local community on the importance of food security. Through September 2027, the Office will collaborate with the Northern Marianas College Cooperative Research, Extension, and Education Service to provide technical assistance on best farming practices...

This $500,000 Project Grant from the Department of the Interior's Office of Insular Affairs will provide the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands with required 10% cost share assistance for disaster and non-disaster grants from FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Grant Program and Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Program from October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2028. Funding will support infrastructure projects that incorporate nature-based solutions, climate change resilience,...

This federal Project Grant award of $150,000.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will fund a two-year initiative titled "Transmission Regained: Recalling Traditional Lifeways through Intergenerational Oral History in the 'World's Borough' Queens." The project, administered by the Research Foundation of the City University of New York through LaGuardia Community College, will invite...

This $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will fund a two-year project to preserve the oral histories of Crow elders in Montana. The project, titled "A People's Oral History of Coal," will conduct over 20 interviews with Crow tribal elders and preserve the recordings in the archives of the Little Big Horn College. This effort aims to document the community's knowledge and...

The International Economic Development Council (IEDC) will establish a program focused on small business development, entrepreneurship, sustainable tourism recovery, economic diversification, and workforce development in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) through a $368,433 project grant awarded on March 22, 2022 by the Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA). The program will enhance local capacity to support economic recovery and resilience in...