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...
The American Library Association (ALA) was awarded a $427,092 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164). The grant will fund ALA's "The Great Stories Club: Reading and Discussion for At-Risk Youth" program through August 2024. The program aims to connect librarians with at-risk youth through literature-based outreach and thematic reading and discussion. As the sub-awardee,...
The American Library Association (ALA) received a $249,999 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the federal Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to deliver the "LET'S TALK ABOUT IT: WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE" program. The NEH Public Programs grant supports opportunities for the American public to explore human history and culture through public humanities programs. Under this June 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023 award, ALA will organize...
This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) program, provides $3,131,435 to support emergency relief and educational programming for humanities organizations recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic. The awardee, National Writing Project, will administer approximately 50 subawards of $50,000 each to local, regional, and cross-regional cultural organizations between October 1, 2021 and September 30,...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $285,979 Project Grant to the Providence Public Library (PPL) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program. The grant will fund a collaborative digitization project between PPL and the Rhode Island Historical Society to digitize over 100,000 pages of historical Rhode Island newspapers from PPL's microfilm collection. This will make these important primary sources widely available...
The American Philosophical Association (APA) received a $195,246 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to retain seven staff positions and restore programs suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic's impacts. Key deliverables include restoring the APA's grantmaking activities, continuing to develop webinars, workshops and career resources for philosophers, and planning the 2022 annual conference....
The American Philosophical Society received a $123,300 project grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to support a Postdoctoral Fellowship from January 1, 2022 through June 30, 2024. The NEH grant will fund research and scholarship activities for a postdoctoral fellow at the American Philosophical Society. As described in the program description, the Promotion of the Humanities Research program aims to...
The Carnegie Library of Homestead received a $135,313 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will support continued access to humanities-related collections and programs at the library from January 2022 through December 2022. Key activities to be funded include digitizing 232 reels of historic local newspapers from Western Pennsylvania and holding community...
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 New York Public Library (NYPL) received a $167,683 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 grant will fund the development of the Research Libraries Collection Spaces Construction Design Standard (RLDS) to guide the design of future collection storage, reading room, and workspace construction or renovation projects across 560,000 square feet of NYPL's research library...