CHALLENGE GRANT AWARDS
Office of Challenge Grants
Announced: November 2004

American Academy in Rome
New York, New York

NEH: $750,000
Nonfederal: $3,000,000
Total: $3,750,000

To support renovation of the Academy's library and endowment for a staff position and a lecture program.

Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services
Dearborn, Michigan

NEH: $250,000
Nonfederal: $750,000
Total: $1,000,000

To support endowment for the position of Manager of Public Programs at the Arab American National Museum.

Asia Society
New York, New York

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

To support endowment for the Associate Director of Public Programming staff and for consultant scholars for humanities programming.

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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

To support endowment for internal and external fellowships, a research seminar, and visiting lectures in a Humanities Center.

Claremont Graduate University
Claremont, California

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

To support endowment for staff, teaching, and acquisitions in an interdisciplinary religious studies program.

Hendrix College
Conway, Arkansas

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

To support endowment for the directorship, for faculty development, and for visiting faculty in core humanities course entitled "Journeys."

Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library
Indianapolis, Indiana

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

To support endowment for humanities outreach programs, including lectures, exhibits, and acquisitions.

Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts
Santa Fe, New Mexico

NEH: $750,000
Nonfederal: $2,250,000
Total: $3,000,000

To support construction of a Center for Research and Cultural Exchange and endowment for a visiting scholar program and technology expenses.

Kansas State University
Manhattan, Kansas

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

To support endowment for two faculty positions, fellowships, and public programming in the Institute for Military History and Twentieth-Century Studies.

Kidscommons … Columbus Community Children's Museum
Columbus, Indiana

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

To support renovation for new exhibition and program space, and endowment for humanities programming.

Linguistic Society of America
Washington, DC

NEH: $40,000
Nonfederal: $160,000
Total: $200,000

To support an endowed professorship in field research skills for the documentation of endangered languages, a course in such skills to be taught at each biennial Linguistic Institute. Funded jointly with the National Science Foundation.

Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
New Orleans, Louisiana

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

To support purchase and renovation of historic Turners Hall into a Learning Center; and endowment for programming.

Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens
Delray Beach, Florida

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

To support endowment for the Director of Education and for humanities programming.

Nebraska State Historical Society
Lincoln, Nebraska

NEH: $550,000
Nonfederal: $1,650,000
Total: $2,200,000

To support endowment for a paintings conservator and related conservation expenses at the Gerald. R. Ford Conservation Center's painting conservation laboratory.

Pierpont Morgan Library
New York, New York

NEH: $750,000
Nonfederal: $3,000,000
Total: $3,750,000

To support endowment for an existing curator position, a new associate curator, and increased operating expenses for the Department of Literary and Historical Manuscripts.

Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Newport, Rhode Island

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

To support restoration and renovation of an historic library.

Southeastern Library Network
Atlanta, Georgia

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

To support endowment for staff salaries and other costs of producing and maintaining the online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Stanford University
Stanford, California

NEH: $600,000
Nonfederal: $2,400,000
Total: $3,000,000

To support endowment for the Stanford Humanities Center's program of faculty/graduate student research workshops.

Virginia Military Institute
Lexington, Virginia

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

To support endowment for the collection of an oral history archive of the Cold War, library and museum acquisitions, conferences, and public programming in the John A. Adams '71 Center for Military History and Strategic Analysis