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 $349,931 Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access grant (CFDA 45.149) to the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) to support the "Bilingual Voices in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Phase 2" project. This 3-year project aims to preserve 240 bilingual sociolinguistic interviews, expand the collection by 50 new interviews, and enhance the project website with data visualizations and metadata to provide...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $172,935 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and its collaborators, the Center for Interamerican and Border Studies (CIBS) and the Institute of Oral History (IOH). The grant will fund a 2-week residential summer institute from July 20 to August 3, 2025 for 25 secondary school teachers of art, language arts, sciences, social...
The federal Project Grant award in the amount of $146,245 was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant supports an intergenerational oral history project in Taos, NM that will engage youth aged 14-20 to capture the resilience and cultural knowledge of elders from the region's three land-based cultures. Under the guidance of professional staff and a multi-stakeholder advisory committee, the youth...
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...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $149,698 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Southwest Folklife Alliance Inc. (doing business as Tucson Meet Yourself) for the CLIMATELORE project. This 18-month project, running from February 2024 to July 2025, aims to document the climate-related impacts on folk, traditional, and indigenous communities in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands region. The project will...
This $348,811 federal Project Grant award to Northern Illinois University from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will support the "Midwest Latinx Oral History Digital Library" project. The award will fund the digitization and online dissemination of nearly 300 audio and video oral history interviews along with full-text transcripts, documenting the diversity of the growing Latinx...
The University of Houston (UH) has been awarded a $250,000 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Challenge Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130) to improve the digital infrastructure of its Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage (Recovery) program. The grant will be used to create a customized cloud-based digital repository and content management system to organize, index, and preserve the vast digital archives of manuscripts,...
The National Hispanic Cultural Center Foundation, University of Minnesota, and University of Texas Rio Grande Valley will collaborate on a three-year, $700,000 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize and provide open access to Mexican American art and archival materials. Funded under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program, which supports preserving and providing intellectual access to humanities resources, approximately...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through its Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program, awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to Latinos in Heritage Conservation (LHC) for The Abuelas Project. The Abuelas Project is a multi-year initiative to identify, collect, and share stories about places that matter to Latinx communities in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. The grant funding will support staff time and resources to research and plan the...