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Show National Park Service Announcement of Grant Program In April 2009, the NPS invited organizations and entities working to preserve historic Japanese American confinement sites and their history - including private nonprofit organizations; educational institutions; state, local, and tribal governments; and other public entities - to submit grant applications to preserve and interpret the confinement sites where Japanese Americans were detained during World War II. education related to historic confinement sites (such as wayside exhibits or educational curricula); preservation of confinement sites and related historic resources (such as restoration of historic buildings or collections conservation); planning projects (such as a resource management plan); and non-Federal real property acquisition (allowed only at Jerome, Rohwer, Topaz, and Honouliuli with the owner's written permission, per stipulations of Public Law 109-441). As defined by Public Law 109-441, eligible confinement sites include the ten War Relocation Authority camps: Gila River (AZ), Granada (CO), Heart Mountain (WY), Jerome (AR), Manzanar (CA), Minidoka (ID), Poston (AZ), Rohwer (AR), Topaz (UT), and Tule Lake (CA), as well as other historically significant locations identified in the NPS report Confinement and Ethnicity and as determined by the Secretary of the Interior, where Japanese Americans were detained during World War II. Postcards announcing the availability of grant applications and guidelines were mailed in April 2009 to a mailing list of more than 10,000 individuals and organizations, including state, local, and tribal governments, public entities, educational institutions, private nonprofit organizations (including organizations involved in the preservation of historic confinement sites), former internees and their families, and individuals within the Japanese American community. The Fiscal Year 2009 grant cycle also was announced through the NPS grant program website, press releases, and other correspondence. The NPS held seven informational meetings in the Pacific West, Intermountain, and Midwest Regions, to meet with interested grant applicants and address questions about the grant program and application process. The grant program guidelines listed seven major categories of eligible activities for the Japanese American Confinement Sites grants to benefit one or more confinement sites: capital projects (such as construction of new interpretive centers), documentation (such as an archeological survey); oral history interviews; interpretation and Fiscal Year 2009 Japanese American_Confinement Sites-Grants Grant Recipient Amount Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project (WA) $ 112,500 Friends of the Texas Historical Commission (TX) $ 34,400 Hawai 'i Heritage Center (HI) $ 58,600 Historical Museum at Fort Missoula (MT) $ 50,000 Heart Mountain, Wyoming Foundation (WY) $ 292,253 Japanese American Citizens League, Livingston-Merced (CA) $ 25,000 Japanese American Citizens League, Marysville (CA) $ Japanese American Citizens League, Twin Cities Chapter (MN) $ 16,000 Japanese American Service Committee (IL) $ 74,620 Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i (HI) $ 43,187 Manzanar Committee (CA) $ 49,400 National Japanese American Historical Society, Inc. (CA) $ 18,568 Poston Community Alliance (AZ) $ 25,994 Topaz Museum (UT) $ 48,000 Tule Lake Committee (CA) $ 40,000 United Tribes Technical College (ND) $ 18,919 University of Hawai 'i (HI) $ 26,148 University of Hawai'i, Center for Oral History (HI) $ 14,955 University of Idaho (ID) $ 16,456 TOTAL $ 970,000 2 5,000 -- -- |
