Building a More Perfect Union: Long Island Writing Project Awarded Pandemic Recovery Grant
Garden City, New York, April 18, 2022- The Long Island Writing Project announces the awarding of a grant through the National Writing Project's Building a More Perfect Union, a grant program for humanities organizations across the United States to assist in recovering from interruptions to operations due to the coronavirus pandemic. As part of the American Rescue Plan: Humanities Grantmaking for Organizations at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Building a More Perfect Union program funds organizations to develop programming in anticipation of the upcoming 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States.
The Long Island Writing Project will be partnering with the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County for spring and summer programming. More information on the programs offered for educators will be made available soon.
The awarded projects, selected through a competitive, peer-reviewed application process, are located at local, regional, or cross-regional organizations such as nonprofits, museums, libraries and archives, historic sites, and public-facing humanities centers at colleges and universities throughout the country. This funding will help such entities restore programming post-pandemic and to engage or deepen collaborations with stakeholders and communities that will expand their reach.
"Each project contributes to a shared national conversation in important ways," said Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, Executive Director of the National Writing Project. "Building a More Perfect Union recognizes the unique role that local, regional, and cross-regional humanities organizations play in understanding and making visible fuller stories of our national experience."
Awardees plan to "build a more perfect union" through expanding access and raising the visibility of lesser known stories and histories in regions and communities, engaging communities through participatory public humanities events and opportunities, and developing institutes and curriculum with teachers and students to support K-12 classrooms.
"The National Endowment for the Humanities is grateful to the National Writing Project for administering American Rescue Plan funding to help local and regional humanities organizations recover from the pandemic," said NEH Chair Shelly C. Lowe (Navajo). "These ARP awards will allow archives, libraries, museums, historic sites and other institutions around the country to restore and expand public programs that preserve and share the stories of the communities they serve."
The Long Island Writing Project will be partnering with the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County for spring and summer programming. More information on the programs offered for educators will be made available soon.
The awarded projects, selected through a competitive, peer-reviewed application process, are located at local, regional, or cross-regional organizations such as nonprofits, museums, libraries and archives, historic sites, and public-facing humanities centers at colleges and universities throughout the country. This funding will help such entities restore programming post-pandemic and to engage or deepen collaborations with stakeholders and communities that will expand their reach.
"Each project contributes to a shared national conversation in important ways," said Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, Executive Director of the National Writing Project. "Building a More Perfect Union recognizes the unique role that local, regional, and cross-regional humanities organizations play in understanding and making visible fuller stories of our national experience."
Awardees plan to "build a more perfect union" through expanding access and raising the visibility of lesser known stories and histories in regions and communities, engaging communities through participatory public humanities events and opportunities, and developing institutes and curriculum with teachers and students to support K-12 classrooms.
"The National Endowment for the Humanities is grateful to the National Writing Project for administering American Rescue Plan funding to help local and regional humanities organizations recover from the pandemic," said NEH Chair Shelly C. Lowe (Navajo). "These ARP awards will allow archives, libraries, museums, historic sites and other institutions around the country to restore and expand public programs that preserve and share the stories of the communities they serve."