Project Grant PW26943220

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program provided $199,510 to the Yivo Institute For Jewish Research to digitize and provide online access to three collections in its archives. Specifically, the award supported retaining five staff members to digitize approximately 70,000 pages from the Vilna Territorial Collection, Records of the Lithuanian Jewish Community Council, and the Jewish Customs...

The Center for Jewish History, Inc. will receive $700,000 through a three-year Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. The Center will arrange, describe, and provide intellectual access to the records of the Council of Jewish Federations for the first time. Totaling 1,475 linear feet, the Council's records document 20th century American Jewish philanthropy and public service at the national...

The Center for Jewish History, Inc. was awarded a $199,791 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support preservation and access activities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program. Through this funding, the Center will retain 14 core staff positions and hire one intern to sustain public-facing and preservation services. Key deliverables include preserving physical collections, increasing access through continued...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $349,524 Project Grant under its Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, a non-profit organization. The grant supports a 3-year project to process, digitize, and provide online access to 122 linear feet of records from four major 20th century American labor union collections held in Yivo's Jewish Labor and Political Archives. These collections, which...

The Bay Area Video Coalition, Incorporated (BAVC) received a $215,186 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. The grant will fund a national study of audiovisual preservation to be conducted between March 2023 and February 2025. As part of the study, BAVC will design and implement surveys, interviews, and site visits to assess the demographics, practices, challenges, and needs of organizations...

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...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $700,000 to Bard College through its Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to develop the International Digital Dura-Europos Archive project from July 1, 2022 to May 31, 2025. The International Digital Dura-Europos Archive project aims to increase global access to and understanding of cultural heritage artifacts and data from the important archaeological site of Dura-Europos in Syria. Using linked...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded New York University $348,580 under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) from September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2025. As part of their Master's degree in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation, NYU students will gain practical experience through course projects and three internships over the course of their studies. The internships will improve the condition and accessibility of unique media...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $1.25 million Project Grant to the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149). The funding will support the Foundation's implementation of a digital preservation and enhanced access strategy for its Interviews: An Oral History of Television collection from June 2022 through May 2025. The collection comprises over 3,000 hours...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) has awarded a $299,211 Project Grant to La Mama Experimental Theatre Club Inc., a non-profit cultural organization in New York City. This 3-year grant (July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2027) will fund the "PRESERVING OFF-OFF-BROADWAY: EXPANDING ACCESS TO LA MAMA'S BORN-DIGITAL MATERIALS" project. The project will preserve, catalog, and publicly share La Mama's...