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Humanities Iowa awards $160,036
in grants to non-profits
Humanities Iowa, the local affiliate
for the National Endowment for the Humanities, awarded
$160,036 in grants to fund projects across the state
during its board meeting June 12-13 at Iowa State
University.
This year, the major grants – which include
grants of more than $3,000 – will be distributed
to 17 different organizations. The projects that
received HI funding range from a documentary on
Sioux City native and advice columnist Ann Landers
to a celebration of the history of the legendary
Lincoln Highway.
The full list of projects to be funded include:
Title of Project: Learning Museum for Religious
Tolerance
Sponsoring Organization: Project Restore Foundation
Grant: $7,500
Title of Project: The Lady with all the Answers
Sponsoring Organization: The Moving Image, Inc.
Grant: $15,000
Title of Project: Green Fire: The Life and Legacy
of Aldo Leopold
Sponsoring Organization: Aldo Leopold Foundation
Grant: $15,000
Title of Project: Citizens Arise! From the Founding
of a Nation to the Crisis of a Union
Sponsoring Organization: Drake University
Grant: $7,500
Title of Project: Development of Interactive Historical
Exhibits
Sponsoring Organization: German-American Heritage
Center
Grant: $15,000
Title of Project: Cultural Encounters: An Experiential
Drama
Sponsoring Organization: World of Difference
Grant: $5,000
Title of Project: Senior College of Greater Des
Moines, 2009-10
Sponsoring Organization: Senior College of Greater
Des Moines
Grant: $5,000
Title of Project: Maasdam Barns Historic Welcome
Center and Barns Exhibits
Sponsoring Organization: Maasdam Barn Preservation
Committee
Grant: $10,000
Title of Project: Lincoln Highway Automobile Revolution
Project
Sponsoring Organization: Missouri and Mississippi
RC&D, Inc.
Grant: $11,665
Title of Project: Through the Eyes of Chris and
Yin Soentpiet: Immigrants and the Transcontinental
Railroad
Sponsoring Organization: University of Nebraska
at Omaha
Grant: $6,200
Title of Project: Fields of Opportunity: Commemorating
15 Years of Bosnian Settlement in the Cedar Valley
Sponsoring Organization: Bosnian Cultural Foundation
Grant: $8,171
Title of Project: 2009 Statewide Khrushchev in Iowa
Commemoration
Sponsoring Organization: Creating Great Places
Grant: $12,000
Title of Project: Iowa City Book Festival
Sponsoring Organization: University of Iowa Libraries
Grant: $5,000
Title of Project: Sacred Symbols, Ceremonial Cloth
Sponsoring Organization: Vesterheim Norwegian-American
Museum
Grant: $5,000
Title of Project: Bluffs Author Series
Sponsoring Organization: Council Bluffs Public Library
Grant: $10,000
Title of Project: Eco-Voices: A Reading Series on
the Environmental Imagination
Sponsoring Organization: Iowa State University Department
of English
Grant: $15,000
HI Mission Statement: The mission of Humanities
Iowa is to promote understanding and appreciation
of the people, communities, cultures, and stories
of importance to Iowa and the nation.
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