The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $188,125 to the Kentucky Humanities Council, Inc. dba Kentucky Humanities through the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130) from May 2017 through September 2020. The funding supported the Prime Time Family Reading Time Kentucky Expansion into Public Schools project to strengthen Kentucky Humanities' institutional capacity and work in the humanities. As part of the project, Kentucky Humanities expanded its Prime Time...
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 Verse Video Education, Inc. $299,765 under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program (CFDA 45.164) to support the completion of five episodes in Season 4 of the public television show Poetry in America. Titled "More Perfect Union," these episodes will focus on American poems that examine the nation's shared narratives. Each episode will profile a work representing different American styles, traditions, and...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $150,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) for the project "Enriching the Humanities Curriculum to Embrace Cultural Relevance". The project objectives are to: (1) develop five new culturally relevant courses to support a new Hispanic Studies minor; (2) provide...
This Project Grant award of $133,971 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will support the "PRIDE IS OUR HERITAGE II: WEAVING ELDERS' STORIES & COMMUNITY RECONNECTION" project conducted by the Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe. The project aims to safeguard the knowledge and memories of tribal elders and encourage the intergenerational transmission of cultural practices disrupted by...
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...
This federal Project Grant award of $150,000, provided by 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 be used by Loyola Marymount University to run a summer institute for rising high school seniors from historically marginalized and underserved populations in Los Angeles. The institute will introduce students to public history and how to grapple with "difficult...
This Project Grant award of $137,266 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) supports the University of Arizona in revising the required "Readings in the Literary Genres" course for Spanish majors and minors. The revised course explores the theme of "life as a road or journey" through four geo-cultural modules covering the Iberian Peninsula, Latin America,...
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...
The American Library Association (ALA) received a $2,221,576 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) program. Through this funding, ALA will administer a $2 million subaward program to provide 200 public, academic, school, tribal, prison and special libraries with $10,000 each to develop humanities programming. The subawards will deliver immediate short-term relief to libraries as they recover from the...