CHALLENGE GRANT AWARDS
Office of Challenge Grants
Announced: November 2000

American Association for State and Local History
Nashville, Tennessee
NEH: $ 246,000
Nonfederal: $ 738,000
Total: $ 984,000
To support endowment for an additional humanities staff position and travel and development expenses for new humanities programs.

Amistad Research Center
New Orleans, Louisiana
NEH: $ 500,000
Nonfederal: $2,000,000
Total: $2,500,000
To support endowment for director of collections position and research fellowships, and direct support for development expenses.

Appalachian State University
Boone, North Carolina
NEH: $ 400,000
Nonfederal: $1,200,000
Total: $1,600,000
To support endowment for visiting scholars, an administrative position, fellowships, library acquisitions and museum programs in Appalachian Studies.

Buffalo State College
Buffalo, New York
NEH: $ 450,000
Nonfederal: $1,800,000
Total: $2,250,000
To support endowment for graduate students fellowships and program development activities for the college's art conservation program.

Carleton College
Northfield, Minnesota
NEH: $ 500,000
Nonfederal: $2,000,000
Total: $2,500,000
To support endowment for two junior-level faculty positions in Asian languages, for development of a new cross-cultural studies concentration, and for maintenance and upgrading of equipment in a Modern Language Center.

Chippewa Valley Museum
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
NEH: $ 315,000
Nonfederal: $1,260,000
Total: $1,575,000
To support renovation of gallery and technical support areas, and education center, environmental control, and collections storage; endowment for humanities programs and educational services.

Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
Cortez, Colorado
NEH: $ 500,000
Nonfederal: $2,000,000
Total: $2,500,000
To support endowment for a distance-learning program in archaeology that will expand the center's reach and make its work available nationwide.

Hartford Public Library
Hartford, Connecticut
NEH: $ 500,000
Nonfederal: $1,500,000
Total: $2,000,000
To support endowment for acquisitions and programming, and direct support for renovation of central library.

Juilliard School
New York, New York
NEH: $ 500,000
Nonfederal: $1,500,000
Total: $2,000,000
To support endowment for the addition of two new faculty positions in Juilliard's liberal arts division.

KCTS Television
Seattle, Washington
NEH: $ 500,000
Nonfederal: $2,000,000
Total: $2,500,000
To support endowment for a new Center for the Humanities, and acquisition of digital technology equipment.

Loyola University
New Orleans, Louisiana
NEH: $ 500,000
Nonfederal: $1,500,000
Total: $2,000,000
To support endowment for a faculty director, archivist, biennial symposium, exhibitions, on-line journal and acquisitions for a new Center for the Study of Catholics in the South.

Marathon County Public Library
Wausau, Wisconsin
NEH: $ 80,000
Nonfederal: $ 240,000
Total: $ 320,000
To support endowment to increase the library's humanities programming and strengthen its print and electronic collections of humanities materials.

Memphis/Shelby County Public Library
Memphis, Tennessee
NEH: $ 300,000
Nonfederal: $ 900,000
Total: $1,200,000
To support endowment for acquisitions, supplies, and oral history collection related to the library's Memphis Music Collection, and direct expenses for equipment for the listening room.

New York University
New York, New York
NEH: $ 450,000
Nonfederal: $1,800,000
Total: $2,250,000
To support endowment for program development and student fellowships for the Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts.

Oberlin College
Oberlin, Ohio
NEH: $ 500,000
Nonfederal: $2,000,000
Total: $2,500,000
To support endowment for postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities.

Philander Smith College
Little Rock, Arkansas
NEH: $ 500,000
Nonfederal: $1,500,000
Total: $2,000,000
To support an endowment for humanities acquisitions, building and equipment maintenance and salary for an archival librarian.

Pomona College
Claremont, California
NEH: $ 500,000
Nonfederal: $2,000,000
Total: $2,500,000
To support permanent integration of the Pacific basin Institute into Pomona College by creating an endowment to fund staff salaries, expansion of the archive and new humanities programs.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, California
NEH: $ 500,000
Nonfederal: $2,000,000
Total: $2,500,000
To support endowment for digital interpretive programs, partnerships with public schools on curriculum and Internet programs, enhanced access to the museum's collections database, and digital exhibitions..

University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
NEH: $ 500,000
Nonfederal: $2,000,000
Total: $2,500,000
To support course development for a revised undergraduate major in Jewish studies and endowment for a colloquium, residential research fellowships and library acquisitions.

University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware
NEH: $ 450,000
Nonfederal: $1,350,000
Total: $1,800,000
To support endowment for the university's master's-level art conservation program to support graduate stipends, curricular enhancement and professional development.

University of Kansas Center for Research
Lawrence, Kansas
NEH: $ 500,000
Nonfederal: $2,000,000
Total: $2,500,000
To support endowment for the university's Hall Center to support public and educational outreach in humanities programming.

University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
NEH: $ 500,000
Nonfederal: $2,000,000
Total: $2,500,000
To support endowment for the Immigration History Research Center to support a professorship in American immigration history, archival service research and scholarship, and community outreach.

University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin
NEH: $ 500,000
Nonfederal: $1,500,000
Total: $2,000,000
To support equipment acquisition and an endowment for design and production of the Wisconsin Collection, a collaboration between Wisconsin Public Television and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

Vermont Historical Society
Montpelier, Vermont
NEH: $ 500,000
Nonfederal: $1,500,000
Total: $2,000,000
To support renovation of the Spaulding School to create a History Center to promote better humanities education throughout the state.

Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial
Red Cloud, Nebraska
NEH: $ 275,000
Nonfederal: $ 825,000
Total: $1,100,000 To support endowment for the program director, a part-time archivist, building maintenance and program support related to the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Culture and Education Center.