Project Grant TA29660324
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $131,116 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, doing business as the Health Sciences Division, for the project "A RIVER OF MEMORIES: PRESERVING LIVED EXPERIENCE IN THE BORDERLANDS OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY, TEXAS". This grant, with a performance period from May 1, 2024 to December 31, 2025,...
- The American Film Institute (AFI) received a three-year, $750,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. Through this funding, AFI will undertake an effort to document and provide intellectual access to short films from the silent and early sound film eras (1910-1933) as part of its authoritative AFI Catalog online resource. By including these short films, the AFI Catalog will illuminate...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Rochester Institute of Technology received a $286,330 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to advance accessibility and discoverability of its Deaf Studies, Culture, and History Archives (DSA). The two-year implementation project, running from September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2027, addresses a significant backlog of unprocessed deaf...
- This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) provides $143,386.00 to support the curation and circulation of the Gullah/Geechee Alkebulan Archive over a two-year period from February 2024 to January 2026. The project, led by the Regents of the University of Minnesota, aims to collect and curate oral histories and cultural artifacts related to the Gullah/Geechee Nation through community-based events. The...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) provides $249,963 to the University of Texas at Austin to create and publicize an open-access digital archive and website titled "Building Community, Fighting Exclusion: Black Cuban Oral History Project, 1959-Present." The project will digitize and analyze oral histories to document how Afro-Latinx communities were affected by housing and...
- This Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services will support the WGBH Educational Foundation in creating educational resources to improve access to public media archives. Under the $213,358 award provided through the National Leadership Grants program, the Foundation will develop 20 sets of primary resources featuring archival public television and radio programming aligned with commonly taught topics in American history and current events. The sets will include teaching...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $149,851 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The "COMMUNITY ARCHIVAL RESILIENCE AND ENGAGEMENT (CARE): VOICES OF AA ELDERS IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA" project will preserve and provide access to oral histories and community archival materials...
- This Project Grant award of $185,586 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services will support a collaborative effort by The Adirondack Experience and multiple partners to facilitate a virtual public programming series examining the history of Adirondack Park through an environmental justice lens. The Adirondack Diversity Initiative, Akwesasne Cultural Center, Mountain Lake PBS, The Nature Conservancy's Adirondack Chapter, and The Wild Center will partner with The Adirondack Experience to...
- 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) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) awarded a $321,793 Project Grant to the Texas After Violence Project (TAVP) for the "Archival Belonging: A Guide to Community- and Care-Centered Archiving" project. This 3-year initiative aims to develop a curriculum and toolkit for community archivists and memory workers that is grounded in community-centered archival ethics and practices. The project seeks to build capacity among...
THROUGH MY EYES [THROUGH MY EYES, IS A PROGRAM THAT WILL DIVERSIFY OUR INTERPRETIVE INSIGHTS INTO OUR COLLECTIONS, RAISE AWARENESS OF AFRICAN HERITAGE HISTORY AND COMPLEMENT OUR CURRENT WORK TO CATALOGUE OUR ARCHIVE (SOME 7,000 LINEAR FEET) . WE WILL CREATE A SERIES OF MONTHLY VIDEOS THAT BRING THE INSIGHTS OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS (STUDENTS, TEACHERS, POLITICIANS, LOCAL CELEBRITIES, ETC.) TO THE DOCUMENTS FOUND IN THE ARCHIVE. EACH MONTH, OUR ARCHIVIST AND OTHER RIBHS MEMBERS WILL TEACH THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS ABOUT A DIFFERENT DOCUMENT, AND THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS WILL, IN TURN, TALK ABOUT THEIR PERSONAL INTERTEST IN OR CONNECTION TO THE DOCUMENT, WHICH WE WILL CAPTURE ON VIDEO. THESE WILL BE DISTRIBUTED ON YOUTUBE, AT OUR WEBSITE, AND THROUGH OUR SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS TO SIMULTANEOUSLY: PROVIDE OUR COMMUNITY WITH A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF OUR WORK, INTRODUCE OUR COMMUNITY TO THE BROADER WORLD, AND RAISE AWARENESS OF AFRICAN HERITAGE HISTORY AND CULTURE AS FAR AS OUR DIGITAL PRESENCE WILL REACH.]
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $20.7k | 2/8/24 |