CHALLENGE GRANT AWARDS
Office of Challenge Grants
Announced: May 2004

Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

NEH: $441,600
Nonfederal: $1,766,400
Total: $2,208,000

To support endowment and bridge funding for curricular innovation, graduate fellowships, internships, and scholarly visitors in a multidisciplinary graduate program.

City of Homer
Homer, Alaska

NEH: $400,000
Nonfederal: $1,200,000
Total: $1,600,000

To support construction of a new public library to serve residents of Alaska's southern Kenai Peninsula.

Commonwealth Fund for Kentucky Educational Television
Lexington, Kentucky

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

To support endowment for humanities programming on local history and culture in a public television system.

Elizabethtown College
Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania

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

To support endowment for a faculty chair, visiting fellows, and library acquisitions in a Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies.

International Center of Medieval Art
New York, New York

NEH: $175,000
Nonfederal: $525,000
Total: $700,000

To support endowment for programming and staff, including a part-time copy editor for the journal Gesta.

Jazz at Lincoln Center
New York, New York

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

To support endowment and bridge funding for staff salaries and for humanities programming.

Jefferson County Historical Society
Port Townsend, Washington

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

To support purchase of a building to house an archive and research library, renovation of exhibition space, fund-raising costs, and endowment for an archivist position.

Macon State College Foundation
Macon, Georgia

NEH: $50,000
Nonfederal: $150,000
Total: $200,000

To support the purchase of an online literary database for use in undergraduate courses, and an endowment for the annual fees of the database as well as additional acquisitions.

Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan

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

To support endowment for the programs of the Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy.

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
La Jolla, California

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

To support endowment for a key humanities staff position, Education Curator, as well as humanities programs.

New Hampshire Historical Society
Concord, New Hampshire

NEH: $300,000
Nonfederal: $1,200,000
Total: $1,500,000

To support creation of an education center and endowment for related humanities programming.

Ogden Museum of Southern Art
New Orleans, Louisiana

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

To support restoration of an historic library and construction of a new education wing to complete the Ogden Museum of Southern Art's three-building complex.

Plimoth Plantation
Plymouth, Massachusetts

NEH: $650,000
Nonfederal: $2,600,000
Total: $3,250,000

To support endowment (with bridge funding) for research staff and graduate fellowships.

Spokane Community College
Spokane, Washington

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

To support endowment for staff salaries, faculty stipends, and programming in a humanities center, and for library acquisitions.

St. Vincent College
Latrobe, Pennsylvania

NEH: $500,000
Nonfederal: $2,000,000
Total: $3,000,000

To support endowment for two interdisciplinary programs: East Asian Studies and the Center for Ethics in Community.

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, Michigan

NEH: $700,000
Nonfederal: $2,800,000
Total: $3,500,000

To support the renovation of space and the addition of air conditioning and fireproofing as well as an endowment for staff salaries within a university museum of archaeology.

Wisconsin Historical Society
Madison, Wisconsin

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

To support endowment of a preservation fund for the society's library and archives.