The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $759,297 to the Arkansas Humanities Council Inc. through the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129) from June 15, 2021 to April 30, 2023. The funding will support local, statewide, and regional public humanities programming through the Arkansas Humanities Council to benefit Arkansas communities. As part of the longstanding Federal/State Partnership, the award will enable the Council to promote public...
This federal Project Grant award of $949,602.00 was issued by the National Park Service under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program (CFDA 15.904) to the Little Rock School Board (Little Rock School District) in Little Rock, AR. The funding will be used to rehabilitate Central High School, a historic site listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The project scope includes architectural services, historic structure reports, preservation plans, and physical preservation of...
This 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 provide $349,357 to the University of Arizona to deliver tailored educational and training programs for undergraduate and graduate students in museum professions. The project will include two streams: an introduction to curatorial methods for undergraduates, and internship and mentoring opportunities in archives for master's...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $134,749 Project Grant to Tarrant County College District (TCCD) under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). This interdisciplinary, digital humanities project will use geospatial technology to capture and record the oral, architectural, and natural history of the North Side neighborhood in Fort Worth, TX. In conjunction with the North Side community, students and...
The University of Chicago received a $349,969 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to develop "FLORENCE ILLUMINATED: VISUALIZING THE HISTORY OF ART, ARCHITECTURE, AND SOCIETY." This 2-year project, with an award date of September 1, 2024, will create a free online research platform that serves as a repeatable model for integrating and sharing digital humanities research...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $341,959 Project Grant to the University of North Florida (UNF) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The 36-month "Archivist-in-Training Program" will provide intensive archival processing and preservation training to 30 undergraduate students, including paid semester-long internships at local historical societies and museums, as well as professional development with...
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 University of Texas at Austin was awarded a $249,963 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161). The grant will fund the "Building Community, Fighting Exclusion: Black Cuban Oral History Project, 1959-Present," which will create and publicize an open-access digital archive and website. The project will analyze how Afro-Latinx communities were impacted by housing and school segregation, Jim Crow laws,...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $150,000 Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (CFDA 45.169) to Urban Archive, Inc., a Brooklyn-based non-profit organization, to support Phase 4 of their Collections Management and Engagement Program (CMEP). This project aims to enhance Urban Archive's award-winning digital infrastructure, which provides a location-based digital platform and collections management system for cultural organizations across New York State and beyond. The...
This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will fund a summer bridge program at Helena College in Montana called "A Bridge to Humanities Pathways in College: Using Film Production to Explore Local Culture and History." Over a two-year period ending in September 2023, the $144,719 in funding will support three summer programs where high school and at-risk college students research and produce documentary films on topics representing under-explored aspects of the...