WE THE PEOPLE CHALLENGE GRANT AWARDS
Office of Challenge Grants
Announced: August 2005

Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

NEH: $600,000
Nonfederal: $1,800,000
Total: $2,400,000

Endowment for a visiting professorship, undergraduate seminars, lectures, and an annual conference in a program in American values and institutions.

George Washington University
Washington, DC

NEH: $1,000,000
Nonfederal: $3,000,000
Total: $4,000,000

Endowment for a director's salary, a scholar-in-residence program, and seminars for graduate students, teachers, and higher education faculty members in an Institute for Constitutional Studies; and direct funding for development costs and start-up activities.

Montpelier Foundation
Orange, Virginia

NEH: $1,000,000
Nonfederal: $3,000,000
Total: $4,000,000

Endowment for staff and humanities programming of the Center for the Constitution at Montpelier.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, Massachusetts

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

Construction of new galleries and period rooms featuring American Colonial and Federal art, as well as endowment for conservation.

Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania

NEH: $1,000,000
Nonfederal: $3,000,000
Total: $4,000,000

Endowment for faculty and postdoctoral fellowships, summer institutes for school teachers and emerging scholars, conferences, and programs in a center devoted to the study of the Civil War era.

University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska

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

Endowment for staff and other costs of managing the digital Walt Whitman Archive.

University of Notre Dame
Note Dame, Indiana

NEH: $1,000,000
Nonfederal: $3,000,000
Total: $4,000,000

Endowment for a faculty position in Constitutional Studies and Religion, a visiting lecture series, seminars for journalists, a postdoctoral teaching fellowship, a dissertation fellowship, graduate student stipends and conferences.