Project Grant SSO29648123

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $175,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to the Upstander Project, Inc. for the "Upstander Academy: Rethreading the Needle of Native American History through Land and Water-Based Learning" program. This two-week residential institute, scheduled for July 2025, will provide 25 participants from 3rd to 12th grade humanities teachers and museum educators with an...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program awarded a $148,054 project grant to the San Jose State University Research Foundation to implement the "Resisting Erasure and Asserting Afghan Cultural and Community Resilience" initiative. This community-engaged humanities project seeks to collect and publicly preserve the stories, cultural heritage, and resilience of first- and second-generation Afghan...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $223,800 Project Grant to the Florida Humanities Council, Incorporated through the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). The grant supports the "Racial Awareness Project", a multiplatform, interactive initiative focused on educating the public on white supremacy in the wake of a racially motivated shooting in Jacksonville, Florida. The project will include an interactive exhibition, a...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $132,760 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program to The Museum At Bethel Woods, a non-profit organization. The grant, titled "1960S ORAL HISTORIES – NEW YORK COMMUNITY CONNECTORS", will fund a project to organize, connect, and collect stories of the 1960s counterculture experience in New York City, with a focus on gathering stories from underrepresented voices...

This federal Project Grant award of $524,388 was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). The grant will support the Minnesota Humanities Center in delivering humanities-focused public programming across the state of Minnesota from November 1, 2024 to October 31, 2029. The programming aims to spark positive change by increasing collective understanding of communities, histories, and cultural...

This $189,708 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will fund a 6-day teacher workshop that explores multiple narratives of the American Revolution and its legacies in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Historical Society and the Concord Museum have partnered to deliver this place-based educational experience, which will guide teachers through famous and lesser-known historic sites in...

This $147,371 federal Project Grant was awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant aims to collaborate with residents of East St. Louis, Illinois to build an archive documenting their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The project has two key components: conducting oral histories with community elders and first responders, and organizing community-based archiving events...

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...

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 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) program, provides $3,131,435 to support emergency relief and educational programming for humanities organizations recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic. The awardee, National Writing Project, will administer approximately 50 subawards of $50,000 each to local, regional, and cross-regional cultural organizations between October 1, 2021 and September 30,...