Humanities Iowa Awards $160,036 in Major Grants
Fall 2009
Humanities Iowa, the local affiliate for the National Endowment for the Humanities, awarded $130,710 in grants to fund projects across the state during its board meeting on June 12 and 13 at Iowa State University. This year, the major grants 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 awards were selected through a competitive application and review process and are made possible through Humanities Iowa and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Major Grants awarded for Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, and Fall 2009.
The grants awarded are:
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.
