Deadline: 9-Nov-22
The National Park Service is offering funds through its Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program to provide financial assistance to organizations and entities working to preserve historic Japanese American confinement sites and their history.
It includes private nonprofit organizations; educational institutions; state, local, and tribal governments; and other public entities, for the preservation and interpretation of U.S. confinement sites where Japanese Americans were detained during World War II.
The authorizing legislation for the Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program identifies up to $38 million for the entire life of the grant program for projects to identify, research, evaluate, interpret, protect, restore, repair, and acquire historic confinement sites in order that present and future generations may learn and gain inspiration from these sites and that these sites will demonstrate the Nation’s commitment to equal justice under the law (Public Law 109-441, 120 Stat. 3288; as amended by Public Law 111-88).
Projects funded through the Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program must benefit one or more historic Japanese American confinement sites. The term historic confinement sites is defined as the ten War Relocation Authority sites (Gila River, Granada, Heart Mountain, Jerome, Manzanar, Minidoka, Poston, Rohwer, Topaz, and Tule Lake), as well as other historically significant locations, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior, where Japanese Americans were detained during World War II. These sites are specifically identified in Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites, published by the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Western Archaeological and Conservation Center, in 1999.
Funding Information
- Estimated Amount of Funding Available per Award: The minimum grant request is a $5,000 Federal share. Over the entire life of the Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program, each applicant may receive no more than $3.8 million total (that is, 10% of the congressionally authorized amount of $38 million).
- Estimated Number of Agreements to be Awarded:(Approximately 20 awards)
- Each activity or project under the grant agreement will be treated individually, with more detail provided in a scope of work and budget as proposed by the recipient organization and approved by the NPS.
Eligible Projects
The types of projects eligible for funding from the Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program include the following categories:
- Capital projects: including construction of new interpretive centers, restrooms and interpretive trails.
- Documentation: including identification, research, and evaluation of historic confinement sites; projects may include archeological surveys, National Register of Historic Places nominations, and National Historic Landmark nominations.
- Oral history interviews: including recording, transcribing, digitally processing and sharing the interviews.
- Interpretation and education related to historic confinement sites: projects may include wayside exhibits, creative arts and educational curricula.
- Preservation of confinement sites and related historic resources: projects may include stabilization, rehabilitation, restoration, acquisition, relocation of historic buildings and structures to their original locations, reconstruction of key structures, and collections conservation.
- Planning projects: such as interpretive plans for new exhibits and programs, land use plans, and resource management plans.
- Non-Federal real property acquisition: allowed only with the owner’s written permission at only Heart Mountain, Honouliuli, Jerome, Rohwer, and Topaz, per stipulations of Public Laws 109-441 and 111-88.
Eligibility Criteria
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In accordance with Public Law 109-441 (120 Stat. 3288), organizations and entities working to preserve historic Japanese American confinement sites and their history, including:
- State and local agencies,
- Public or private nonprofit institutions/organizations,
- Federally recognized Indian tribal governments,
- State colleges and universities,
- Public and private colleges and universities are eligible to apply.
- Non-Federal entities who are partnering with Federal agencies that own eligible historic resources may submit applications regarding the Federal property.
- Individuals may not apply.
Ineligible
The Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program does not provide funding for:
- Projects that have already been completed
- Establishment of Friends groups
- Fundraising or the formulation of fundraising plans
- Lobbying
- Long-term maintenance, operations, or curatorial work beyond the grant period
- Organizational operations/permanent staff positions
- Land acquisition at sites other than: Heart Mountain, Honouliuli, Jerome, Rohwer, and Topaz.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=343391