CHALLENGE GRANT AWARDS
Office of Challenge Grants
Announced: November 2001

Children's Museum of Southeastern Connecticut
Niantic, Connecticut

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

To support construction for major humanities space in the museum's new building and endowment to support humanities programs at the new location in New London, Connecticut.

Council of American Overseas Research Centers
Washington, D.C.

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

To support document conservation and fund-raising costs as well as an endowment providing salary for librarians engaged in the American Overseas Digital Library.

Fort Ticonderoga
Ticonderoga, New York

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

To support endowment for two humanities positions: the Director of Interpretation and Education and the Curator of Landscape; and restoration of the Magasin du roi (King's Storehouse) as a year-round education center.

Georgia College & State University
Milledgeville, Georgia
NEH: $ 500,000
Nonfederal: $1,500,000
Total: $2,000,000

To support endowment for the Center for Georgia Studies for an assistant director's salary, library acquisitions, production costs for a scholarly journal, research fellowships, a multidisciplinary course and a film festival.

Idaho Humanities Council
Boise, Idaho
NEH: $ 150,000
Nonfederal: $ 450,000
Total: $ 600,000

To support an endowment for an annual summer institute for elementary and secondary school humanities teachers, related regional workshops, scholar visits to schools, and salary for an education coordinator.

Koahnic Broadcast Corporation
Anchorage, Alaska
NEH: $ 500,000
Nonfederal: $1,500,000
Total: $2,000,000

To support an endowment for Native American audio programs distributed nationally.

Lawrence University of Wisconsin
Appleton, Wisconsin

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

To support an endowment for the university's Freshman Studies program, including a summer faculty symposium; visiting scholars, artists, and performers; staff positions; library and technology acquisitions; assessment; and dissemination.

Lower East Side Tenement Museum
New York, New York

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

To support an endowment to fund humanities programming, upgrade the museum's web site, hire outside scholars for research and evaluation, implement a comprehensive collections management program, and plan for such efforts as the museum's new American Immigrant Heritage Center.

Madison County Library System
Canton, Mississippi

NEH: $ 150,000
Nonfederal: $ 450,000
Total: $ 600,000

To support endowment for a part-time humanities coordinator, strengthening humanities holdings, program publicity, and humanities programming.

Mattress Factory
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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

To support endowment to fund a key humanities position of Education Director, hire humanities scholars as consultants and program participants, and support expanded humanities material on the museum's Web site.

Museo de las Americas
Denver, Colorado

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

To support renovation and construction to integrate an adjoining building with the existing facility as well as to purchase equipment, furniture, and computers.

Museum for African Art
New York, New York

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

To support construction costs to build a new home for the museum on New York's Museum Mile and endowment for staff costs and collections acquisitions.

Nebraska Humanities Council
Lincoln, Nebraska

NEH: $ 450,000
Nonfederal: $1,350,000
Total: $1,800,000

To support endowment for an initiative, "Building Nebraska Communities," designed to help Nebraska towns and neighborhoods draw upon their history and cultural heritage and thus use the humanities to plan for their future.

Newport Historical Society
Newport, Rhode Island

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

To support endowment that will provide salary support for one existing and two new humanities staff positions: the Director of Education, a Curator of Historic Sites, and a Library Director, as well as a wide range of humanities programs.

Northeast Historic Film
Bucksport, Maine

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

To support an endowment to provide humanities programs and construction costs for a new Conservation Center for the secure storage of the films and videotapes that are the core of the organization's collections.

Richmond Public Library
Richmond, Virginia

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

To support renovations to the 1929 Main Library's Dooley Wing as well as the Literature and History Department, acquisitions to strengthen the history and African-American holdings, and endowment for future humanities acquisitions and educational programs.

Strong Museum
Rochester, New York

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

To support construction, renovation, and expansion of exhibit and collections storage spaces to enable the museum to double its capacity to deliver public humanities-based educational programming.

Thomas Jefferson Foundation
Charlottesville, Virginia

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

To support an endowment for salaries, educational and public outreach, and technology needs for a Web-accessible resource for the study of early American slavery in the Chesapeake region.

Toledo Museum of Art
Toledo, Ohio

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

To support endowment to support a full-time conservator and annual conservation needs.

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

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

To support endowment for staff positions, operational costs, and other expenses of the Ancient World Mapping Center.

University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
San Juan, Puerto Rico

NEH: $ 150,000
Nonfederal: $ 450,000
Total: $ 600,000

To support the acquisition of the English Book I and II Microfilm series, an archive of every extant book printed in the British Isles from 1475 to 1700.

University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas

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

To support an endowment for the residency costs associated with the intensive summer Shakespeare-in-performance program as well as international exchanges and educational outreach.

University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas

NEH: $ 100,000
Nonfederal: $ 300,000
Total: $ 400,000

To support an endowed distinguished professorship in literature and the humanities in a new cross-cultural doctoral program in English emphasizing Latina/o literature and the college-level teaching of rhetoric and writing, especially at institutions with diverse student populations.

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
Washington, D.C.

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

To support endowment for humanities programs as well as for the existing position of director of humanities programs and a new position in humanities-related curriculum development.