Project Grant SCO20023GR4514

The National Women's Hall of Fame (NWHF) in Seneca Falls, New York will use a $112,095 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants program to expand its virtual forums engaging communities in dialogue about past, present, and future leaders in women's history. Specifically, NWHF will host six bi-monthly forums from November 2021 through October 2022 highlighting women's equality, women in business, and medical researchers advancing women's...

The Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, Inc. was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs program (CFDA 45.164) to develop the "Pioneering Women of American Architecture" podcast and website. The podcast and accompanying website will feature biographical essays on a diverse range of women architects and designers who played important roles in shaping 20th century American architecture. Both...

The National Museum of Women in the Arts will undertake a $513,020 digital accessibility initiative through September 2024 with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301). As part of this project grant, the Museum will conduct an accessibility audit of its digital spaces, remediate inaccessible digital content, create new fully accessible digital and archival materials, and determine onsite digital accessibility needs....

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded $700,000 to City Lore Inc. under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) on January 1, 2026, for the production of a feature documentary film titled "The Women Who Reported Vietnam." Developed in collaboration with filmmakers Sally Rosenthal and Julia Marchesi, the project will document the experiences and journalistic contributions of female war correspondents who covered the Vietnam War. The documentary...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Historic Hudson Valley a $367,643 project grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs program (CFDA 45.164) to develop the Invisible Women digital school program from January 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023. The grant funds will be used to hire and train staff and interpreters to create and sustain an interactive online field trip experience focused on telling the untold stories of enslaved and free women in colonial and...

The Department of State's Office of Global Women's Issues awarded a $2.96 million cooperative agreement to the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders Inc. to support the Leadership of Local Women Including Young Women and Other Historically Marginalized Group in Preventing, Resolving, and Recovering from Conflict, Violent Extremism (VE) and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is Amplified and Sustained program. This program, funded under the Office of Global Women's Issues' CFDA #19.801 program, will...

The University of Houston was awarded a $249,998 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to undertake the multi-year effort "Democratizing Politics: Mapping the Stories and Significance of the 1977 National Women's Conference." Over three years, the University will develop an open-access digital humanities website and fully-featured website by 2027 to analyze the thousands of participants and...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $100,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program (CFDA 45.164) to the National Museum of Women in the Arts. The grant will support an exhibition titled "Northern Women: Dutch and Flemish Artists of the Long Seventeenth Century" that will showcase the work of women artists from the Netherlands and Flanders during the 17th century. The exhibition will feature paintings, drawings, prints,...

The New York Historical Society was awarded a $205,897 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to conduct the "Rethinking American Feminism, 1948-1977" institute. The institute aims to empower 30 K-12 teachers to incorporate a more diverse range of women's voices and contributions into their instruction on 20th century U.S. history. Over several months from October 2021 to September 2023, the institute will convene teachers and 19 guest scholars, filmmakers, and...

The U.S. Department of Labor's Women's Bureau (CFDA 17.700) awarded a $350,000 Project Grant to the Philadelphia Area Project On Occupational Safety and Health (Philaposh) on September 30, 2023. The grant will fund Philaposh's efforts to engage immigrant women workers in leadership development, training, resource sharing, and support services aimed at preventing and responding to gender-based violence and harassment in their workplaces. Philaposh will implement this program in partnership with...