Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support stewardship planning and architectural consultants, historic archives and interpretative learning, capacity building for improvement sites, and accessibility

Wilfandel Club Renovation

to support honoraria, administration, and travel costs for a place-based design justice workshop for built environment design students, faculty, and practitioners at Dark Matter U

Dark Matter U Summer Institute

to support public exhibitions of place-based research, art, and design projects and community programming

Morgannale

to support organizational capacity and planning for Rhode Island AAPI History Museum

Rhode Island AAPI History Museum

to support capacity building, skill-building workshops, community programming, and cultural preservation activities aimed to enhance accessibility to ballroom culture at the Haus

The Haus

to support place-based partnerships, community-driven projects, and research

Communiversity

to support the hiring of community experts and consultants, research, public programming, and expanded organizational capacity

Enduring Cultures Initiative

to support the museum’s repatriation and tribal consultation initiative, food sovereignty and Indigenous Garden project including a kitchen renovation, community outreach and programs, as well as culturally responsive rebranding and organizational capacity for the museum

Food Sovereignty and Indigenous Garden Project

to support historic preservation and cultural landscape assessments, and curatorial and development staff

Frances Perkins Center

to support interpretation planning, construction costs, public programming, and organizational capacity

Memorializing Historic Bethel Baptist Church and Its Role In The Modern Civil Rights Movement 

to support a full-time curator position, expanded public programming, and business planning

Nanticoke Indian Museum

to support strategic planning and design for community and cultural heritage spaces at the Old Barracks property in Christiansted, St. Croix

Old Barracks Rehabilitation Project

to continue support for expanded archaeological and historical research, a community center, and public programming for The Christiansborg Archaeological Heritage Project

Osu Castle-Christiansborg Archaeological Heritage Project

to support planning efforts and community engagement for the development of the Enslaved African Burial Grounds

Reimaging the Enslaved African Burial Ground in Van Cortlandt Park

to support a public exhibition, postdoctoral research fellowships, publications, programming, and community engagement

The Paul Revere Williams Archive Initiatives

to support staffing, development, installation of a new exhibit focusing on the cultural history of American Indian communities in the Northern Plains and Rockies, and related programming

Under a Common Sky: Native Cultures of the Northern Plains & Rockies

to support the restoration of James Weldon Johnson's historic writing cabin, preservation planning for the site, and research

Writing Cabin Restoration 

to support staffing capacity, language courses, annual events and art exhibits, artist stipends, and a public realm placekeeping project

FLS Arts and Culture Program

to support the development of an engagement guide and curriculum; a park history audit tool; and an assessment of selected Los Angeles parks

Future Histories for LA Department of Parks and Recreation Sites 

to support Wa Na Wari's program development, oral history training, stipends for community participants, and archiving equipment

Walk the Block and Seattle Black Spatial Histories 

to support leadership, staff positions and public programming at Mujeres de Maiz

 Rooted and Rising: Cultivating a Movement Milpa

to support the Lenape Center's organizational capacity and salaries for leadership team

Capacity Building at the Lenape Center

to support organizational and programmatic development, architectural documentation, and a strategic plan for the Coles House Project

Coles House Project

to support the establishment of Khayelitsha Art School & Rehabilitation Centre's Shack Theatre in the Eastern Cape

KASI RC Inspire Eastern Cape Project

to support brownstone renovations and associated public programming

Magnolia Tree Earth Center

to support Cleo’s Too kitchen and public exhibition space, honoraria for regional and national food heritage leaders, and associated food heritage programming

Preserving Black Regional Foodways

to support Henderson Development’s preservation of the historic Colored Knights of Pythias building and related planning, feasibility, and community engagement

Restoring the Colored Knights of Pythias Building

to support place-based environmental heritage initiatives and network convenings, and organizational development

Community Based Biocultural Resource Management

to support Dikan Center’s Conservation and Cultural Heritage Center, capital project planning, and organizational development

Dikan Center

to support organizational development, capacity building, and planning and design work for the adaptive reuse of Orange Mount Tower

TONE - Orange Mound Tower

to support a NYCHA arts liaison, artists-in-residence salaries and benefits, stipends for participating NYCHA residents, and materials and fabrication fees for the space activations

From Roots to Art: Celebrating NYCHA's Cultural Heritage

to support the restoration of three sculptures, the re-creation of missing sculptures, new mural commissions at the north and south entryways, and the research and installation of interpretive signage documenting the history of the development and its residents

Harlem River Houses Public Art and Community Space Restoration

to support planning, research, design, and the installation of physical markers and the creation of digital content to highlight Los Angeles’ diverse historic places

HistoricPlacesLA Revealed

to support construction costs for the Sosa-Carrillo-Frémont House including new spaces for presentations and exhibits, improved accessibility, and organizational capacity for Descendientes Del Presidio De Tucson

Mexican American Heritage and History Museum

to support historic preservation and conservation work at the W.E.B. Du Bois Centre in Accra, Ghana as well as organizational development and capacity building

W.E.B. Du Bois House and Museum

to support the hiring of an oral historian, a video producer, and essential staff for the newspaper’s oral history project

 Indianapolis Recorder Archive

to support the American Indian Law Alliance’s expanded organizational capacity, historians, scientists, scholars, and Indigenous knowledge keepers necessary to educate the public about the need to preserve the sacred Onondaga Lake’s cultural and historical heritage

Haudenosaunee Maple Bay and Onondaga Lake Heritage Initiative

to support Northern Cheyenne Journey Home Committee’s community-engaged pre-construction planning for the development of the Northern Cheyenne Healing Trail

Northern Cheyenne Healing Trail

to support increased organizational capacity and programming for a neighborhood history project

Aspire House Neighborhood Histories Project

to support Friends of Belmont Beach’s site research and historic interpretation, historic site designation, organizational planning, and board development

Belmont Beach: Preserving an Urban Oasis in the Heart of Haughville 

to support expanded staffing and organizational capacity, board development, and a long-term sustainability plan

Center for Preservation of Gullah Culture

to support Epicenter-NYC's planning for the creation of community hubs focused through arts, culture, and news, space feasibility studies, and organizational capacity

Epicenter Commons / Community Hubs

to support the creation of a redevelopment plan to guide future development along Indiana Avenue in downtown Indianapolis

Indiana Avenue Certified Strategic Plan

to support organizational capacity, community-based Xicano Studies curriculum, learning garden, and fellowships

La Milpa Michigan Initiative

to support Muloma Heritage Center and Diaspora Kitchens’ site development; construction of teaching kitchens; and increased organizational capacity, including culinary and food scholar residencies to lead food programming

Muloma Heritage Center and Diaspora Kitchens 

to support three Indigenous heritage and cultural events in New York and New Jersey, organizational capacity, and long-term sustainability efforts

Organizational and Programmatic Support at Redhawk Native American Arts Council

to support organizational capacity, the creation of a development office, the hiring of a development director, a development coordinator, and communications manager

Organizational Development at AICH

to support the American Indian Center’s continued community partnerships, through a regranting program to the eight Native nations who share geography with the state of North Carolina, student internships, and capacity needed for continued public programming

Reclaiming Native Place, Space, and Knowledge in North Carolina

to support the creation of a narrative walking tour and interactive digital map; archival and historical research; oral history interviews with local residents; and the development of a comprehensive business and sustainability plan

Stories of Solidarity: South Asian Americans and Black Americans in the Fight for Racial Justice

to support the planning and design work for the Dreamstead project and a humanities-focused community fellowship program

The Dreamstead

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

In portrait orientation, an aerial view of a major highway running parallel to a large border wall set on a hilly landscape

Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 