Project Grant SGE21023GR0168

This $974,414 federal Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants program supports George Mason University, in collaboration with several partners, to develop a community archiving prototype and training materials. The key objectives are to: (1) create the Archives for Racial and Cultural Healing (ARCH) National Collaborative, (2) support the Chipman ARCH project as a prototype and develop curriculum/practices for future ARCH regional...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $200,000 to Duke University to conduct a cross-national study using generative artificial intelligence, social simulation models, and online experiments. The goal is to identify how social media algorithms can be redesigned to promote mutual understanding, increase trust, and reduce polarization. The research design involves training large language models...

The International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) will deliver training and resources to address hate crimes through a $400,000 project grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance. The grant was awarded on October 1, 2022 under the Community-Based Approaches to Advancing Justice program (CFDA 16.047). Over a three-year period concluding September 30, 2025, ICSVE will train law enforcement, community stakeholders, and victim...

This Project Grant award, valued at $200,000.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Federal Grant Program for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075). The project, conducted by New York University (NYU), is examining the causal impact of social media usage on individual well-being and out-group animosity across multiple countries through a global field experiment. The research team is incentivizing a large sample of people to temporarily reduce...

This Project Grant award of $250,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science was provided to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to conduct research exploring methods for signaling to human users when a video has been manipulated or entirely constructed using deepfake technology. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year grant include: Assessing the effectiveness of three different methods for visually alerting users...

The Academy Foundation, on behalf of a national consortium of film archives and libraries, was awarded a $211,540 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program (CFDA 45.312) to research and design a searchable online resource for underrepresented film collections. The grant-funded project will develop a dataset gathering individuals and film titles from secondary sources related to social, gender, racial, ethnic, ability, sexual...

The Foundation for Advancement in Conservation will develop new online training resources for the Connecting to Collections Care program through a $431,390 Institute of Museum and Library Services project grant awarded September 1, 2022. Under the grant, the Foundation will create 33 new webinars, six online courses with closed captioning and translations in English and Spanish, and enhance the program's website search functionality and accessibility through August 31, 2025. As the sub-awardee...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs provides $266,750 to support the presentation of American films at the 17th anniversary of the Vienna-based International Human Rights Film Festival "This Human World". The grant, awarded under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) on September 25, 2024, will enable the non-profit organization This Human World KG to curate and showcase American cinematic works that explore...

The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan received a $710,096 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants for Museums (CFDA 45.312) program. The grant will fund the development of a streaming data collection and analysis pipeline to enhance the functionality of the Social Media Archive (SOMAR). This project aims to balance social media data privacy and reuse by...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $180,830 Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (CFDA 45.313) grant to the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) to train archivists on inclusive practices for serving autistic communities and empower autistic individuals with oral history skills. The project, titled the "Autistic Voices Oral History Project," will deliver two workshops to improve archivists' competencies in accessibility and representation,...