This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162), will provide $150,000 to Loyola Marymount University to run a summer institute on the topic of "The Public Uses of the Past." The institute will introduce rising high school seniors from historically marginalized and under-served populations in Los Angeles to public history and...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $1,295,514 Project Grant to the National History Day Inc. under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The four-year cooperative agreement will support educational programming from 2023 to 2026 focusing on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and continued efforts toward a more just and inclusive society. National History Day Inc. will produce...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $120,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to the South Asian American Digital Archive NFP (Saada), a non-profit organization. This one-year grant from October 1, 2023 to December 31, 2024 will support a residential summer institute for middle and high school teachers that explores methods used by community archives to challenge dominant historical narratives and give voice to...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $175,045 Project Grant to National History Day Inc. under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant will fund the "Moving Freedom Forward: Teaching a More Inclusive History" initiative, which combines teacher training and curriculum development to enhance classroom teaching and student learning about the histories of marginalized communities. The...
This three-year, $149,696 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will support the "Inclusive Public History" initiative at Montclair State University. The initiative aims to develop faculty expertise in public history through training programs, create new public and digital history courses, and establish opportunities for place-based student learning at cultural institutions. These activities align with the federal program's goal of promoting humanities teaching...
This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will support experiential professional development for educators focused on colonial history in New Hampshire. Awarded $373,434, the grant will run from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2024. The University of New Hampshire will lead place-based encounters for educators along the Great Bay estuary, considering the experiences of Native American and African American populations alongside early European settlers. Educators will...
This Cooperative Agreement award of $100,000.00 from the National Park Service's Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) will support the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), a minority-owned non-profit organization, to document and preserve the oral histories of African American migrant workers at the Worthington Farmstead. The project aims to foster meaningful collaborations with local communities and...
The federal Project Grant award of $136,528 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) supports the "Blank Spaces in the Library Archives" community-based learning and digitization project at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). The project aims to document and publicize the underrepresented lived experiences of people of color from the 18th to...
This $199,950 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will support Full Spectrum Features NFP, a Chicago-based non-profit organization, to host a three-week institute for educators on the history of Japanese American resettlement after World War II. The institute will take place both virtually and in-person in Chicago, the largest non-West Coast resettlement site for Japanese Americans....
This $300,704 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program aims to study how collectives of socially and economically disadvantaged (SED) individuals are creating entrepreneurial opportunities and building more inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems. The project will involve an interdisciplinary research collaboration between two minority-serving institutions to explore how marginalized communities are...