Project Grant ST252547OMS22
- The federal Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Save America's Treasures program provides $294,532 to Chromadiverse, Inc. to preserve, digitize, and make publicly accessible the Margaret Elizabeth "Marbeth" Schnare photography collection of the Dance Theatre of Harlem. The 3-year project (10/1/2024 - 9/30/2027) will inventory, transport, digitize, and rehouse the collection of 6,000 photographs and 100 documents, and develop a...
- The Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation will receive $978,876 through a Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Save America's Treasures program to make archival materials from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater accessible for restaging. The Foundation will catalog and digitize technical information needed to restage ballets, collect and analyze dramaturgical content and rights information for each work, and develop "dance capsules" comprising this collected...
- The Urban Archive, Inc. was awarded a $150,000 Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program. The grant will support Phase 4 of Urban Archive's Collections Management and Engagement Program (CMEP), which provides a location-based digital platform and collections management system for cultural organizations across New York State to expand access to their digitized...
- Award Summary The National Park Service (NPS) awarded $670,000 to the Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association (92nd Street Y) under the Save America's Treasures program (CFDA 15.929) on September 19, 2025. This Project Grant funds the archiving and digitization of the 92NY Media Archives, a nationally significant collection containing over 8,000 audio recordings of prominent 20th-century thinkers, writers, and political leaders. The project will be completed by April 30, 2029, and...
- The Withers Collection, Inc., a non-profit organization, received a $100,000 federal Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (AAHC) program (CFDA 45.309). The grant will fund the enhancement of the museum's stewardship of its collection by archivally storing and digitizing approximately 4,000 photographs from its collection that document civil rights history and African American life and culture....
- The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to the International Association of Blacks in Dance Inc. from January 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023 under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The grant funding will support personnel and facilities expenses to aid the organization's response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program aims to support...
- The National Park Service (NPS) awarded $300,000 to Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc. through the Save America's Treasures program (CFDA 15.929) on September 23, 2025, to support conservation of the historic Norton Owen Collection. This Project Grant funds physical preservation and conservation work on a nationally significant cultural collection held by the organization in Becket, Massachusetts. The award requires a dollar-for-dollar non-federal match and will extend through April 30, 2029,...
- The Buffalo Soldiers National Museum will receive $150,000 through a Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture federal grant program to improve collections care and access. Specifically, over the two-year project period from July 2022 through June 2024, the Museum will catalog and digitize more than 4,000 items in its African American military collection. It will also provide staff with collections...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Jackson State University's Margaret Walker Center (MWC) received $1,083,521 in Project Grant funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program (CFDA 45.309) for the award period October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2027. The grant supports the preservation and digitization of the MWC's archival collections, which were threatened by severe storm damage in 2023. Primary...
- The University of Arizona and its partner organizations will develop an innovative training program under a $196,356.64 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. The training program will bring together digital preservation experts and cultural heritage practitioners from under-resourced organizations to collaborate in preparing digital preservation peer assessments. Participants will learn digital preservation concepts and...
Urban Bush Women Inc., doing business as Urban Bush Women, was awarded a $430,500 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Save America's Treasures federal grant program (CFDA 15.929). The funding will support efforts from October 1, 2022 through December 31, 2025 to improve the management, preservation, and accessibility of Urban Bush Women's archival collections documenting the work of choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and the organization from 1984 to present. A part-time archival assistant will work with project staff to properly document, rehouse, and digitize audio/visual materials, print materials, performance costumes, textiles, and magnetic storage media according to archival standards to preserve this collection chronicling four decades of influential choreography bringing attention to racial equity and social justice in American dance history.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $215.3k | 9/19/22 |