Challenge Grants Awards List November 2014
2015 Offers/Awards
Museum of Northern Arizona
Flagstaff, AZ
NEH: $122,524 Nonfederal Matching: $367,574 Total Project: $490,098
Title: Revitalizing Community Connections in the Native Peoples of the Colorado Plateau Gallery
Project Description: Renovation of space in the Ethnology section of MNA’s Native Peoples of the Colorado Plateau exhibition.
Imperial Valley Desert Museum Society, Inc.
Ocotillo, CA
NEH: $260,000 Nonfederal Matching: $520,000 Total Project: $780,000
Project Title: Endowing the Imperial Valley Desert Museum: Broadening Humanities Perspectives in Archeology and in Non-museum Going Demographics
Boulder Museum of History
Boulder Historical Society, Inc.
Boulder, CO
NEH: $500,000 Nonfederal Matching: $2,140,000 Total Project: $2,640,000
Project Description: Support the creation of the new Museum of Boulder in a repurposed Masonic Lodge building in downtown Boulder, Colorado
Gainesville University of Florida Libraries
Gainesville, FL
NEH: $500,000 Nonfederal Matching: $1,500,000 Total Project: $2,000,000
Title: Repositioning Florida's Judaic Library: Increasing Access to Humanities Resources from Florida, Latin America, and the Caribbean Communities
Project Description: Endowment for library staff, acquisitions, public and scholarly outreach activities, and digitization projects related to the Jewish experience in Florida, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
Macon Mercer University, Macon
Macon, GA
NEH: $500,000 Nonfederal Matching: $1,500,000 Total Project: $2,000,000
Project Title: Mercer University Southern Studies Center - NEH Challenge Grant
Project Description: Endowment for new humanities programs in a Center for Southern Studies.
Martha's Vineyard Museum
Martha’s Vineryard, MA
NEH: $500,000 Nonfederal Matching: $1,500,000 Total Project: $2,000,000
Project Title: Martha's Vineyard Museum Education Endowment Challenge Project Description: Endowment for the position of Education Director and related humanities programs.
Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit, MI
NEH: $500,000 Nonfederal Matching: $1,500,000 Total Project: $2,000,000
Project Title: Endowment of the Vice President of Learning and Interpretation
Project Description: Endowment for the position of Vice President of Learning and Interpretation
Thomas Cole Historic House
Catskill, NY
NEH: $300,000 Nonfederal Matching: $900,000 Total Project: $1,200,000
Title: Thomas Cole Historic Site Endowment for Programming
Project Description: Endowment for enhanced humanities exhibitions, community and school programs, and honoraria for speakers and fellows.
Studio Museum in Harlem
New York, New York
NEH: $500,000 Nonfederal Matching: $1,500,000 Total Project: $2,000,000
Project Title: New Facility Project
Project Description: Architectural fees, concept design, schematic drawings, and project management, for the museum’s facility expansion.
Strong Museum
Rochester, NY
NEH: $500,000 Nonfederal Matching: $1,500,000 Total Project: $2,000,000
Project Title: Gallery Renovation Project (Strategic Initiative on Learning and Human Development)
Project Description: Renovation of a large central gallery for new exhibitions that explore humanities themes in the museum’s collection of toys, dolls, and games.
Bismarck State College
Bismark, ND
NEH: $500,000 Nonfederal Matching: $1,000,000 Total Project: $1,500,000
Project Title: Endowment for Humanities Programs
Project Description: Endowment for faculty director course release; research fellowships; partial program assistant salary; as well as student and faculty humanities programs.
Miami University, Oxford
Oxford, OH
NEH: $500,000 Nonfederal Matching: $1,500,000 Total Project: $2,000,000
Project Title: Miami University Humanities Center
Project Description: Endowment for a humanities teaching lab, a faculty research collective, a research apprenticeship program, and partial salary for a program coordinator for the humanities center.
Oregon Humanities
Portland, OR
NEH: $500,000 Nonfederal Matching: $1,500,000 Total Project: $2,000,000
Project Title: Endowment support for Humanities Programs in Oregon
Project Description: Endowment for the Idea Lab Summer Institute for teachers and teens and the Conversation Project about ideas crucial to Oregon communities.
Japanese Garden Society of Oregon
Portland, OR
NEH: $500,000 Nonfederal Matching: $1,500,000 Total Project: $2,000,000
Project Title: Cultural Crossing at the Portland Japanese Garden: Enlarging Americans' Understanding of Japanese Perspectives and Worldview
Project Description: Construction of a new educational facility to expand the Garden’s humanities offerings.
Gettysburg College
Gettysburg, PA
NEH: $500,000 Nonfederal Matching: $1,500,000 Total Project: $2,000,000
Project Title: Expanding Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College
Project Description: An Endowed Professorship in Civil War Era Studies, thereby freeing funds to support a new tenure-track position in war and memory studies.
American Philosophical Society
Philadelphia, PA
NEH: $500,000 Nonfederal Matching: $1,500,000 Total Project: $2,000,000
Project Title: Endowing a Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies
Project Description: Endowment for the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies.