The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $312,176 Project Grant to Alabama State University under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will fund the Enhancing Access to Alabama's Black Political and Educational History archival processing project at Alabama State University from June 2023 through May 2026. The project aims to process, conserve, and create finding aids for the historic records of the Alabama State Teachers...
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...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the Georgia Humanities Council, Inc. $1,289,722 under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129) from June 15, 2021 through April 30, 2023. The funding will support the Georgia Humanities Council in promoting local, statewide, and regional public humanities programming through annual operating grants. As the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Georgia Humanities Council will...
Auburn University will implement a redesigned year-long Alabama history-themed writing program for incoming first-year college students at two Alabama correctional facilities, under a $149,989 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The grant will support the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project (APAEP) at Auburn University to offer its quality educational experiences to incarcerated individuals in Alabama. Specifically, APAEP will redesign and implement...
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded a $969,625 Project Grant to the Alabama Council On The Arts to support arts programs, services, and activities associated with carrying out the agency's NEA-approved strategic plan. This funding, covering the period of July 1, 2023 to December 31, 2024, enables the Alabama Council On The Arts to administer subawards to Alabama arts organizations such as museums, theaters, ballet companies, and symphonies. These subawards provide production...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Albany State University a $165,474 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The two-year grant funded the "STRENGTH FROM ADVERSITY: A READING, DISCUSSION, AND MENTORSHIP PROGRAM" from January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2018. This program enhanced the teaching and study of the humanities by creating new teaching and learning resources, and...
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...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $759,297 to the Arkansas Humanities Council Inc. through the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129) from June 15, 2021 to April 30, 2023. The funding will support local, statewide, and regional public humanities programming through the Arkansas Humanities Council to benefit Arkansas communities. As part of the longstanding Federal/State Partnership, the award will enable the Council to promote public...
The American Library Association (ALA) received a $2,221,576 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) program. Through this funding, ALA will administer a $2 million subaward program to provide 200 public, academic, school, tribal, prison and special libraries with $10,000 each to develop humanities programming. The subawards will deliver immediate short-term relief to libraries as they recover from the...
The University of South Alabama received a $453,394 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. The grant will support efforts to preserve and share community histories of underrepresented groups in South Alabama through two projects. Staff will be retained and hired at the University's McCall Rare Book & Manuscript Library to process and digitize existing oral history collections,...