Project Grant TR26973020

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $350,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to Stone Soup Productions Inc., a woman-owned non-profit media production company. The grant will support the production of the second and third seasons of "The People's Recorder," a national podcast series inspired by the 1930s Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration. The podcast aims to explore the legacy,...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $227,420 under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) federal grant program to the Linguistic Society of America to support the creation and distribution of 20 original podcast episodes and 3 mini-series episodes on the history of African American English through the Subtitle podcast. The podcast episodes will range between 20 to 25 minutes and will be distributed through Subtitle's online and social media platforms, with...

Federal Grant Award Summary The John Gilmore Riley Foundation, Inc., in cooperation with the Florida African American Heritage Preservation Network (FAAHPN), received a $126,000 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program (CFDA 45.309). The award, obligated on October 1, 2025, with a completion date of September 30, 2026, supports the production and distribution of a monthly podcast series...

This federal Project Grant award of $350,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) supports the production of "Sounds of the Uyghurs", a 3D podcast series exploring the ongoing cultural erasure of the Uyghur people in China's Xinjiang province. The project consists of seven 40-minute podcast episodes, the creation of a digital archive of Uyghur cultural content, and an audio installation for a museum setting....

This Project Grant award from the National Park Service - Chesapeake Bay Office under the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network program (CFDA 15.930) provides $150,000 to The Elizabeth River Trail Foundation to develop an immersive audio experience along the 10.5-mile Elizabeth River Trail in Norfolk, Virginia. The "Truth Be Told" project will curate 10 seven-minute audio stories featuring the historical perspectives and experiences of underrepresented communities along the trail, connecting...

KVZK/American Samoa Public Media Digitization Project The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $350,000 under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the American Samoa Government Department of Treasury on August 1, 2025, with completion targeted for July 31, 2027. This Project Grant will enable KVZK to complete the digitization, preservation, and public accessibility of 11,630 historic public television programs produced between 1965...

This two-year, $148,710 Project Grant awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants for Museums (CFDA 45.312) program will support the University of Connecticut's Greenhouse Studios, collaborating with its Asian and Asian American Studies Institute, to design a replicable community-engaged storytelling model. The project will develop an open-source Omeka plug-in to collect first-person narratives, which will be tested with the Fudeko...

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 awarded a $1.25 million Project Grant to the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149). The funding will support the Foundation's implementation of a digital preservation and enhanced access strategy for its Interviews: An Oral History of Television collection from June 2022 through May 2025. The collection comprises over 3,000 hours...

The Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, Inc. was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs program (CFDA 45.164) to develop the "Pioneering Women of American Architecture" podcast and website. The podcast and accompanying website will feature biographical essays on a diverse range of women architects and designers who played important roles in shaping 20th century American architecture. Both...