Project Grant PW29674624
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $602,630 to the Alaska Humanities Forum through June 15, 2021 to April 30, 2023 under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). The funding will support the Alaska Humanities Forum in delivering local, statewide, and regional public humanities programming through annual grants. As the state humanities council for Alaska, the Forum will utilize the funds to promote humanities initiatives in communities across...
- This three-year Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities, under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161), will fund the transcription, translation into English, annotation, and publication of oral narratives from the Upper Inlet Dena'ina people of Southcentral Alaska. The $292,183 in funding will support Native Village of Eklutna to complete the known corpus of audio-recorded narratives primarily collected from late Elder Shem Pete between...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $175,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to the Upstander Project, Inc. for the "Upstander Academy: Rethreading the Needle of Native American History through Land and Water-Based Learning" program. This two-week residential institute, scheduled for July 2025, will provide 25 participants from 3rd to 12th grade humanities teachers and museum educators with an...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded $350,000 under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the American Samoa Government on August 1, 2025, to complete the KVZK/American Samoa Public Media Digitization Project. This project will digitize, preserve, and provide public access to 11,630 historic public television programs produced by KVZK spanning 1965 to 2020. The award addresses a funding gap that emerged following an...
- 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) provides $432,912 to Yale University to document and preserve the endangered Um?nhon (Omaha) language spoken in Nebraska and Iowa. The primary goals are to capture contemporary connected speech of the approximately 27 remaining Um?nhon first-language speakers, and to digitize and make accessible the extensive existing language...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $149,660 Project Grant to Macalester College under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169). The grant aims to update the "Seventeen Moments in Soviet History" digital humanities archive, which has attracted over 700,000 unique visitors annually despite its outdated design. The project will enhance the archive's functionality by improving ADA compliance, accessibility, and...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $350,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Utah Division of Arts and Museums. The grant will fund the Utah Collections Preservation Network (UCPN) project, which aims to expand access to comprehensive virtual and on-site, culturally appropriate training and mentorship activities. These activities are designed to enhance the preservation literacy...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $187,868 Project Grant to Southern Utah University (SUU) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163). The grant, titled "Voices of the Ancients: Archaeology and Oral History in the American West," aims to help teachers grapple with difficult and complex history and expand the American narrative. The project will investigate the archaeology of the ancient Fremont people, engage with the...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $219,998 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129) to the Amerika Samoa Humanities Council (ASHC), a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. The grant, awarded on October 1, 2023, will support the NEH Pacific Islands Cultural Initiative, which aims to foster community engagement and nurture local cultural and educational sectors through events and programs at colleges, universities,...
- 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...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the Museum of the Aleutians Association, doing business as Museum of the Aleutians Inc., a $345,484 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The 3-year grant, running from June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2027, will fund the "Sharing Voices: Making the Tachiqalax Collection Accessible through Unangam and Academic Collaboration" project. This project aims to 1) expand the number of perspectives telling the history of the Tachiqalax archaeological site on Unalaska Island, Alaska, and 2) increase access to the site's histories and archaeological materials so that researchers, educators, and the Unangax people can engage in learning, research, and cultural stewardship. The grant will support cataloging, curating, and making approximately 100 cubic feet of Tachiqalax archaeological materials accessible online, thereby broadening access to and decolonizing this period of U.S. colonial history, developing a multivocal history with researchers and Unangax communities, and building capacity in Alaska Native collections stewardship.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $320.5k | 5/17/24 | ||
| Not listed | $25.0k | 5/17/24 |