Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program | P25AS00027

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The Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program is a National Park Service discretionary grant opportunity designed to support the preservation and public understanding of places connected to the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. The program provides financial assistance for projects that help protect these sites and interpret their history so that current and future generations can learn from them, and so the sites can serve as a reminder of the country s stated commitment to equal justice under the law. The program is authorized under Public Law 109-441, as amended by Public Law 111-88, which sets a lifetime total of up to 38 million for the full span of the program.

Funded projects must directly benefit at least one eligible historic Japanese American confinement site. Eligible sites include the ten War Relocation Authority camps Gila River, Granada, Heart Mountain, Jerome, Manzanar, Minidoka, Poston, Rohwer, Topaz, and Tule Lake as well as other historically significant locations where Japanese Americans were detained during the war if recognized as eligible by the Secretary of the Interior. The core set of sites and related locations are referenced in the 1999 National Park Service publication Confinement and Ethnicity An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites, which is available online through the NPS history site.

The program supports a wide range of preservation and interpretation work. Typical project types include identifying and documenting resources, conducting research and evaluation, developing interpretation and education efforts, and taking direct preservation actions such as protection, restoration, repair, and acquisition of historic resources. In practical terms, this can cover activities like surveying remaining structures or landscapes, stabilizing or restoring historic features, creating exhibits or educational materials grounded in site history, and securing land or easements that protect significant areas tied to confinement.

Eligibility is broad and includes many public and nonprofit entities that are positioned to carry out preservation or educational work. Eligible applicants include state, county, city or township, and special district governments; federally recognized tribal governments; public and state controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; nonprofits with or without 501 c 3 status (so long as they are not institutions of higher education); and other eligible public entities. The opportunity also allows non federal organizations to apply for projects on federally owned property when they are partnering with the federal agency that owns the eligible historic resource, which is important for sites that are managed by federal land agencies.

For this specific funding opportunity posting, the opportunity number is P25AS00027 and the assistance listing is CFDA 15.933. The funding instrument is a grant and the activity category is education, reflecting the program s strong emphasis on interpretation and public learning alongside physical preservation. The maximum award amount listed is 500000 per award. The posting shows a closing date of 2024-11-14, with a creation date of 2024-09-11.

• The National Park Service in the education sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.933.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-09-11.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-11-14. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $500,000.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Others.

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