Project Grant PW29053523
- The Hula Preservation Society received a $204,181 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services Program (NANH-Museums) to develop five virtual exhibitions providing insight into 20th century Hawaii. Using resources from its digital archives, the Society will gather content and develop online infrastructure for the exhibitions, implement associated public programming, and launch a social media campaign to...
- Hawaii Community College will utilize a $147,157 National Endowment for the Humanities Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program to engage in cultural heritage preservation and education efforts centered around the newly established Palamanui Forest Preserve from June 2023 through May 2026. Key deliverables include developing digital archives and maps of ancient and modern trails within the preserve, establishing a...
- The University of Hawaii at Manoa will digitize 890 motion picture film reels and videotapes from its Henry Kuualoha Moving Image Archive of Hawaii collections in order to provide access to historical materials documenting Hawaii's path to statehood and its varying impacts on native Hawaiian and Japanese American populations from the 1920s to 2000s. Funded by a $1,050,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under its Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation...
- The Hawaii Council for Humanities has been awarded a $220,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). The grant will fund the delivery of events and programs at colleges, universities, museums, libraries, historic sites, and other cultural and community organizations across Hawaii from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026. These activities are designed to foster community engagement...
- This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129) will provide humanities disaster recovery funding to the Hawaii Council for the Humanities. The grant, awarded on August 1, 2024, will support the council's efforts to deliver humanities-focused programming and community initiatives in response to the Maui wildfires of August 2023. The funding will enable the council to develop...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $652,433 to the Hawaii Council For Humanities through the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129) for the period of June 15, 2021 through April 30, 2023. This Project Grant will support local, statewide, and regional public humanities programming through the Hawaii Council For Humanities. The Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program provides annual grants to humanities councils in each...
- This $149,779 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 deploy a full-time Rapid Response Community Archivist to advance digital preservation and curation activities within tribal libraries, archives, and museums across at least six of Wisconsin's twelve Native Nations. Over the 2-year award period from April 2025 to March 2027, the Community Archivist will provide...
- KVZK/American Samoa Public Media Digitization Project The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $350,000 under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the American Samoa Government Department of Treasury on August 1, 2025, with completion targeted for July 31, 2027. This Project Grant will enable KVZK to complete the digitization, preservation, and public accessibility of 11,630 historic public television programs produced between 1965...
- The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $199,625 Native American and Native Hawaiian Library Services (NANH-L) Project Grant to the Kohe Malamalama O Kanaloa - Protect Kahoolawe Fund. This 2-year grant, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2026, will support the preservation and digitization of approximately 600,000 pages of documents and manuscripts from the late Dr. Noa Emmett Aluli, a respected Moloka'i physician and co-founder of the Protect Kahoolawe Ohana...
- The Bishop Museum was awarded a $491,368 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169). The grant will support the "Mau Ka Leo" project to digitize the Museum's collections and make them publicly accessible online through narrative components and multimedia created by Hawaiian staff. Specifically, the project will retain 15 positions and hire a digital humanities specialist to...
The Hula Preservation Society was awarded $299,517 under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program by the National Endowment for the Humanities to create indigenous-centered finding aids for its oral history video library and disseminate the results. Specifically, Hula Preservation Society will develop the first Indigenous-Controlled Vocabulary for the contents of its oral history library and prepare 60 sets of finding aids integrated with the new taxonomy. These finding aids and controlled vocabulary will be made available online through the University of Hawaii, Hawaii State Public Library, Office of Hawaiian Affairs' Papakilo database, and Hula Preservation Society's own Digital 'Umeke repository of learning. Project results and lessons learned will be shared through a national conference presentation, local public program, and online stories. The grant period is from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $33.8k | 5/5/23 | ||
| Not listed | $265.8k | 5/5/23 |