CHALLENGE GRANT AWARDS
Office of Challenge Grants
Announced: November 2002

Albany Institute of History & Art
Albany, New York

NEH: $500,000
Nonfederal: $1,500,000
Total: $2,000,000

To support endowment for the position of Chief Curator, humanities programs, and environmental control costs.

American Library Association
Chicago, Illinois

NEH: $350,000
Nonfederal: $1,050,000
Total: $1,400,000

To support endowment for humanities scholars to provide on-going training and consultation for libraries' programming staff.

Arizona State Museum
Tucson, Arizona

NEH: $700,000
Nonfederal: $2,100,000
Total: $2,800,000

To support renovation of existing space to create a climate controlled storage vault for the museum's Southwest Indian pottery collection and an upgraded conservation lab as well as endowment for humanities programs.

Cooleemee Historical Association*
Cooleemee, North Carolina

NEH: $100,000
Nonfederal: $100,000
Total: $200,000

To support endowment for humanities programming in local history.

Delhi Historical Society*
Cincinnati, Ohio

NEH: $75,000
Nonfederal: $75,000
Total: $150,000

To support endowment for additional staff responsible for humanities programs in local history.

Forest History Society
Durham, North Carolina

NEH: $266,000
Nonfederal: $798,000
Total: $1,064,000

To support endowment for an Archivist/Librarian position, visiting scholars program, a Distinguished Lectureship Series, and a seed money fund for publication subvention in forest and environmental history.

Friends of Arrow Rock*
Arrow Rock, Missouri

NEH: $100,000
Nonfederal: $100,000
Total: $200,000

To support endowment for expansion of humanities programming in local history through self-guided tours, outdoor interpretive signage, and symposia.

Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
Cincinnati, Ohio

NEH: $500,000
Nonfederal: $1,500,000
Total: $2,000,000

To support construction of a new education building housing an electronic learning center for the American Jewish Archives and endowment for an educator's salary, exhibits, and educational programs.

Hiram College
Hiram, Ohio

NEH: $200,000
Nonfederal: $800,000
Total: $1,000,000

To support bridging funds and endowment for a Center for Literature, Medicine, and the Health Professions.

Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

NEH: $400,000
Nonfederal: $1,600,000
Total: $2,000,000

To support endowment for the society's Gateway Program for Community Education and Exhibitions, including the salary for a Community Curator and support for humanities programming.

Kansas City Public Library
Kansas City, Missouri

NEH: $500,000
Nonfederal: $2,000,000
Total: $2,500,000

To support endowment for the Special Collections Department as well as construction of space and purchase of furnishings, fixtures and equipment for the Special Collections and humanities programming areas within the new Central Library.

Legacy Museum of African American History*
Lynchburg, Virginia

NEH: $100,000
Nonfederal: $100,000
Total: $200,000

To support endowment for a part-time professional curator for the museum's collections and programs in local history.

Lehigh County Historical Society
Allentown, Pennsylvania

NEH: $200,000
Nonfederal: $800,000
Total: $1,000,000

To support endowment for the society's library and public archive; purchase of new collection storage equipment; and construction of archival/collection storage, all for a new facility.

Marshall University
Huntington, West Virginia

NEH: $500,000
Nonfederal: $1,500,000
Total: $2,000,000

To support endowment that would enable Marshall University's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia to create a distinguished chair for a senior level scholar, research opportunities for newer scholars, and dissemination of Appalachian scholarship to K-12 humanities teachers.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, Massachusetts

NEH: $370,000
Nonfederal: $1,480,000
Total: $1,850,000

To support endowment and bridge funds for a new staff position, a Manager of Museum Learning Technology, as well as a fund for the purchase and maintenance of equipment.

Nantucket Atheneum
Nantucket, Massachusetts

NEH: $375,000
Nonfederal: $1,125,000
Total: $1,500,000

To support endowment for a humanities program manager, humanities programming, visiting scholars, and humanities acquisitions.

National Council on Public History
Indianapolis, Indiana

NEH: $30,000
Nonfederal: $90,000
Total: $120,000

To support endowment for humanities programs and improved services to the public history community.

New Hampshire Farm Museum*
Milton, New Hampshire

NEH: $100,000
Nonfederal: $100,000
Total: $200,000

To support endowment to fund partial salary for the position of director of educational programming in local history.

North Haven Historical Society
North Haven, Maine

NEH: $60,000
Nonfederal: $180,000
Total: $240,000

To support construction for a new facility to house and make accessible archival collections and library holdings and to provide space for humanities programs.

Pejepscot Historical Society*
Brunswick, Maine

NEH: $100,000
Nonfederal: $100,000
Total: $200,000

To support endowment for a humanities staff position in educational programming in local history.

Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania

NEH: $500,000
Nonfederal: $2,000,000
Total: $2,500,000

To support endowment to fund initiatives of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, including interdisciplinary groups, lectures and an annual symposium, and outreach programming.

Scurry County Museum*
Snyder, Texas

NEH: $100,000
Nonfederal: $100,000
Total: $200,000

To support endowment for humanities scholars to serve as consultants in local history as well as partial support for the museum's humanities staff positions.

SUNY, College at Oneonta
Oneonta, New York

NEH: $200,000
Nonfederal: $600,000
Total: $800,000

To support endowment for fellowships for graduate students in the Cooperstown Graduate Program in History Museum Studies and for an annual lecture and summer research internships.

University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California

NEH: $500,000
Nonfederal: $1,500,000
Total: $2,000,000

To support endowment for community programming, a visiting professorship, and graduate fellowships in the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Religion and Public life.

University of Florida, Gainseville
Gainnsville, Florida

NEH: $200,000
Nonfederal: $800,000
Total: $1,000,000

To support endowment for staff salaries, public programming, and related expenses at the Randell Research Center devoted to the archaeology, history, and ecology of southwest Florida.

Virginia Historical Society
Richmond, Virginia

NEH: $500,000
Nonfederal: $2,000,000
Total: $2,500,000

To support construction of a wing that will house the new Reynolds Center for Virginia Business History, an exhibition gallery, auditorium, offices, and storage space for a rapidly growing collection.

Wadsworth Atheneum
Hartford, Connecticut

NEH: $500,000
Nonfederal: $1,500,000
Total: $2,000,000

To support endowment for the position of Director of Education to oversee the museum's programs to convey to the public the humanities themes of the museum's collections and exhibitions.

West Chester University
West Chester, Pennsylvania

NEH: $300,000
Nonfederal: $900,000
Total: $1,200,000

To support endowment for staff salaries and programming in the university's Poetry Center.

*awarded under a Special Initiative for Local History.