The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $175,000 Project Grant to City Lore Inc., a non-profit art gallery and cultural hub in New York City, for the "SOMOS BORICUAS: UNDERSTANDING PUERTO RICAN MIGRATION AND COMMUNITY BUILDING THROUGH THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES" summer institute program. This program uses Puerto Rican migration to the mainland U.S. as a case study to explore key humanities questions related to citizenship, rights, and the role of cultural traditions and...
This federal Project Grant award of $137,266.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) is being used by the University of Arizona to revise the required course "Readings in the Literary Genres" 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...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through its Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program, awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to Latinos in Heritage Conservation (LHC) for The Abuelas Project. The Abuelas Project is a multi-year initiative to identify, collect, and share stories about places that matter to Latinx communities in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. The grant funding will support staff time and resources to research and plan the...
Prime Time Family Reading (Prime Time) received a $199,979 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant will support Prime Time's development of a bilingual book series and accompanying resources titled "A More Perfect Union" aimed at encouraging literacy and civic engagement among families with young children. Key activities include the...
The Library of America, in partnership with the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures, will produce 400 Years of Latino Poetry, a $1,698,898 project grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164). The initiative includes publishing a groundbreaking anthology of Latino poetry spanning 400 years; public programs and conversations with literary scholars, poets, and historians across...
The State Historical Society of Colorado (History Colorado) was awarded $500,000 under a Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs to support humanities initiatives in rural Colorado through September 2022. History Colorado will install a new wireless network across its eight museum properties to improve connectivity for visitors, staff, and community members. It will also reinterpret the Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center,...
The Maine Humanities Council Corporation was awarded a $750,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program. The two-year grant will fund a text-based humanities initiative titled "WHAT IF ...?: AFROFUTURISM AND THE QUEST FOR A JUST, INCLUSIVE, AND SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY." The initiative aims to provide Mainers opportunities to read, reflect, and connect with one another through discussion of...
Manchester Community College will create an academic art history reader focused on traditionally marginalized communities, titled "Not Your Grandfather's Art History." Funded through a $145,258 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under its Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program, the reader aims to provide increased representation of voices and images in the classroom. It will feature analytical...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program awarded a $148,955 Project Grant to the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey (UPR Cayey) to implement the "Collective Care: Oral Histories of Climate Change in Puerto Rico" project. The project aims to preserve and improve access to a collection of oral histories documenting community-led responses to natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic in Puerto...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $149,999 Project Grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) through the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The "Stories of Resilience: Latino Community Health Workers and COVID Response in North Carolina" project aims to document the experiences of Latino community health workers in North Carolina responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. The project will...