Project Grant PW30440325
- 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 (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in Soviet History" digital humanities archive, which has attracted over 700,000 unique visitors annually despite its outdated design.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 Chicago History Museum (CHM) was awarded a $499k Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs to develop hybrid online and in-person humanities programs and resources from January 2022 through December 2023. CHM will use the funding to create a sustainable framework for connecting with audiences digitally and onsite, enhance its digital humanities content and archives to promote accessibility and interactivity, and center...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program awarded a $300,784 Project Grant to the Minnesota Historical Society to digitize 100,000 pages of historic Minnesota newspapers published between 1849 and 1963, with an emphasis on the period 1923-1963. This effort is part of the state's ongoing participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). The project will preserve and provide digital access to these...
- 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 Field Museum of Natural History received a $217,897 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to process and digitize 15 anthropology collections from around the world. Through this one-year award, the Museum will hire two full-time registration assistants and convert a part-time registrar position to full-time. These staff will organize, describe, and digitally archive...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $149,934 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) to Northeastern University. The grant will support the development of machine learning tools and cataloging workflows to provide access to Northeastern's large collection of over 1 million photographic prints from the Boston Globe photo morgue. The project aims to create open-source software and processes that can be leveraged by...
- The Norwegian-American Historical Association (NAHA) was awarded a $297,303 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant, awarded on September 1, 2024, with a completion date of August 31, 2027, will fund the digitization, rehousing, and cataloging of five collections that document the relief efforts of Norwegian-Americans for occupied Norway during World War II. The collections...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $336,288 project grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Newberry Library in Chicago, IL. The grant funding will support the digitization and online publication of 2,400 rare and historical books from the library's Edward E. Ayer North and Middle American Indian Linguistics Collection, which represents over 300 indigenous languages of North and Central America. This...
- This $151,520 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will support the Colorado Chicano Movement Archives in preserving and providing access to its collections. The awardee, Colorado State University-Pueblo, will use the funding to hire an archivist through January 2023 to process 500 digitized items, create metadata for 300 photographs, and develop finding aids. The...
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 fund a project to digitize archival materials at the Swedish American Museum in Chicago. The $107,780 grant will support several stages of the project, including digitization, rehousing, metadata correction, and publishing of the digitized records online. The goal is to increase public access to material that focuses on personal immigration stories and items relating to the Swedish-American experience in Chicago from the late 1800s through the mid-1900s, when Swedish migration and culture flourished in the city. The project will create digital resources and tools to codify and provide integrated access to these humanities materials.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $107.8k | 8/13/25 |