Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program | P22AS00034

Opportunity Information: Apply for P22AS00034

The Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program is a National Park Service discretionary grant opportunity that supports work to preserve and interpret places connected to the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. The program is designed to help ensure these sites and their stories are protected, researched, and shared with the public so that current and future generations can learn from them and so the sites can stand as tangible reminders of the nation s commitment to equal justice under the law. The program is authorized by Public Law 109-441 (as amended by Public Law 111-88), which establishes up to 38 million in total funding over the lifetime of the program for eligible preservation and education efforts.

Funded projects must directly benefit one or more qualifying historic Japanese American confinement sites. The definition of historic confinement sites includes the ten main War Relocation Authority camp locations: Gila River, Granada, Heart Mountain, Jerome, Manzanar, Minidoka, Poston, Rohwer, Topaz, and Tule Lake. It also includes other historically significant locations where Japanese Americans were detained during World War II, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior. These locations are documented in the National Park Service publication Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites (1999), which serves as a key reference for identifying eligible sites and contexts.

The grant can support a broad range of preservation and interpretation activities. Eligible project types include efforts to identify, research, and evaluate resources; interpretive and educational work that helps the public understand the history of confinement; and physical preservation actions such as protecting, restoring, repairing, or acquiring historic resources associated with confinement. In practical terms, this can cover activities like historical research and documentation, condition assessments, stabilization or restoration of remaining structures or landscapes, development of exhibits or interpretive materials, and other actions that keep the sites intact and meaningful for public understanding.

Eligible applicants are wide ranging and include state governments, counties, cities or townships, and special district governments, as well as federally recognized tribal governments. Educational institutions may apply, including public or state controlled institutions of higher education and private institutions of higher education. Nonprofits are also eligible, including both 501(c)(3) organizations and nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (as long as they are not institutions of higher education). The program also allows non-federal entities to apply for projects involving federal property when they are partnering with the federal agency that owns an eligible historic resource, which can be important for sites located on federal lands.

For the specific opportunity listing provided, the funding opportunity title is Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program with opportunity number P22AS00034 and CFDA number 15.933. The funding instrument is a grant, offered by the National Park Service. The listed award ceiling is 3,000,000. The opportunity was created on 2021-09-09 and had an original closing date of 2021-11-09.

• The National Park Service in the other 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 2021-09-09.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2021-11-09. (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 $3,000,000.00 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.

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