Project Grant ZPA28406122
- The Rosenbach Museum & Library received a $330,977 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program. The two-year grant funded a comprehensive lighting upgrade project to protect and preserve the museum's 400,000-item collection of rare books, manuscripts, and fine art. The project expanded on previous planning efforts and aimed to upgrade, modernize, and automate the artificial...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Pennsylvania received a $325,009 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), effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2027. The award supports the expansion and enhancement of the Digital Scriptorium (DS) Catalog, an open-access digital platform built on Linked Open Data (LOD) technologies that functions as a union catalog of...
- The Library Company of Philadelphia was awarded a $700,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). Over a three-year period from January 2023 to December 2025, the grant will fund the Library Company Papers Project to comprehensively review, process, and digitize the Library Company's institutional records from 1731 to 1880. This will preserve early American history contained...
- This federal Project Grant award of $149,996.00, provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program, supports research to develop computational methods for analyzing literature in low-resource languages. The key objectives are to build a BookNLP pipeline for the Yiddish language, create new annotated training data, and document the procedures for applying this approach to other low-resource languages. The...
- The Preservation Society of Newport County received a $498,415 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149). The funding will support the creation of three new positions and retention of seven existing positions within the Society's Department of Museum Affairs to develop a new exhibition at Rosecliff, one of the historic mansions owned and operated by the...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $350,000 Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections Implementation Level II grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Wagner Free Institute of Science, a National Historic Landmark in Philadelphia, PA. The grant funding will be used to install a sustainable new HVAC system in the library wing and integrate a direct digital control (DDC) system across the site's HVAC...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded $349,999 to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America through the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) on October 1, 2025, to catalog, preserve, and digitize approximately 7,000 at-risk broadsides, ephemera, and prints housed in the Seminary's library. These materials, spanning the 17th century through the mid-20th century, document three centuries of Jewish experience in the United...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $345,896 Humanities Collections and Reference Resources implementation grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library organization. The two-year grant, effective July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2026, will fund the digitization of and permanent online access to nine local history collections from seven public libraries across the...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the Atlantic City Free Public Library a $123,000 project grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to create "The Atlantic City Experience Research Library Digital Repository" from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. The library will use the funding to digitize and provide online access to its cultural heritage collections documenting the contributions of the African...
- The Medford Historical Society & Museum received a $11,985.80 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities on January 1, 2018 to support collections preservation assessment activities through June 30, 2019. The grant was awarded under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), which aims to preserve and provide intellectual access to primary humanities resources held in libraries, museums, and archives. Funds supported...
The Rosenbach Museum and Library received a $149,600 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. The grant will support the organization's efforts to steward and provide digital access to its rare books and manuscripts collection. Key activities to be undertaken include cataloging the majority of the rare book and manuscript collection, migrating records to a cloud-based collection management system, updating the collection management policy, and deaccessioning some non-accessioned items. The funding will retain four existing staff positions and create two new positions to efficiently implement collection stewardship projects that have been deferred due to the pandemic. The grant is expected to make the Rosenbach's collections more accessible to scholars, students, and the general public by supporting the development of its online catalogue. The award period is from October 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. No subawards are intended under this grant.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $0 | 1/23/23 | ||
| Not listed | $0 | 1/23/23 | ||
| Not listed | $149.6k | 11/12/21 |