dollars $662,620 awarded NJ organizations 84 awarded of applications were COVID-19 Response Grants 52% new to NJCH funding As part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) received $75 million for emergency relief efforts. The agency allotted a significant portion of those funds to its network of nonprofit state humanities councils, including the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. NJCH administered two different awards for the COVID-19 Response Grant program, General Operating Support and Program Support Grants. ORGANIZATION CITY STATE DISTRICT AWARD ORGANIZATION CITY STATE DISTRICT AWARD Congressional District 1 Congressional District 9 Cherry Hill Public Library Cherry Hill 6 $5,000 American Labor Museum/Botto House National Landmark Haledon 35 $20,000 Esther Raab Holocaust Museum & Goodwin Education Center Cherry Hill 6 $18,000 Hamilton Partnership for Paterson Paterson 35 $5,000 Historical Society of Haddonfield Haddonfield 6 $5,000 Meadowlands Museum Rutherford 36 $5,000 Home Port Alliance for the USS New Jersey, Inc. Camden 5 $5,000 Passaic County Historical Society Paterson 35 $5,000 Perkins Center for the Arts Moorestown 7 $5,000 CavanKerry Press Ltd Fort Lee 37 $3,000 Woodbury Public Library Woodbury 5 $15,000 Congressional District 10 Camden County College Blackwood 4 $9,000 Merchants and Drovers Tavern Museum Rahway 22 $5,000 Nick Virgilio Haiku Association Cherry Hill 5 $3,000 Montclair History Center Montclair 34 $5,000 Congressional District 2 New Jersey Historical Society Newark 28 $5,000 African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey, Inc. Atlantic City 2 $5,500 Newark Museum Association Newark 29 $5,000 Atlantic City Free Public Library Atlantic City 2 $15,000 Newark Public Library Newark 28 $10,800 Barnegat Bay Decoy & Baymen’s Museum Tuckerton 9 $5,000 Newark Public Library Springfield Branch Newark 28 $5,000 Bayshore Center at Bivalve Port Norris 1 $10,000 Talking Eyes Media Montclair 34 $18,000 Cape May County Historical & Genealogical Society Cape May Court House 1 $5,000 University of Orange Orange 34 $10,000 Center for Community Arts, Inc. Cape May 1 $5,850 Montclair Art Museum Montclair 34 $9,000 Center for Historic American Building Arts Bridgeton 3 $8,000 Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University Newark 29 $8,000 HCSV Foundation, T/A Historic Cold Spring Village Cape May 1 $5,000 South Orange/Maplewood Community Coalition on Race Maplewood 27 $5,400 Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts Cape May 1 $5,000 Woman In Media - Newark Roselle 20 $4,050 Millville Army Air Field Museum, Inc. Millville 1 $5,000 Congressional District 11 Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum Rio Grande 1 $5,000 Lake Hopatcong Foundation Landing 26 $5,000 Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center Millville 1 $15,000 Mendham Township Library Brookside 25 $5,000 Congressional District 3 Morris Museum Morristown 25 $5,000 Alice Paul Institute Mt. Laurel 7 $18,000 Museum of Early Trades & Crafts Madison 27 $5,000 Roebling Main Gate Museum Roebling 7 $18,000 Sparta Historical Society Sparta 24 $5,000 Whitesbog Preservation Trust, Inc. Browns Mills 8 $17,760 Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center Little Falls 40 $5,000 Willingboro Public Library Willingboro 7 $15,000 Adult School Madison 27 $3,000 Bordentown Historical Society Bordentown 7 $9,000 County College of Morris Randolph 25 $7,480 Congressional District 4 Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey Florham Park 27 $3,150 Allaire Village, Inc Farmingdale 30 $18,000 Congressional District 12 Historical Society of Ocean Grove Ocean Grove 11 $5,000 Historical Society of Princeton Princeton 16 $18,000 Monmouth County Historical Association Freehold 11 $18,000 Meadows Foundation, Inc. Somerset 17 $5,000 New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Foundation, Inc Holmdel 13 $18,000 Morven Museum & Garden Princeton 15 $15,000 Congressional District 5 Old Barracks Association Inc Trenton 15 $5,000 Bogota Public Library Bogota 37 $9,750 People & Stories / Gente y Cuentos Lawrenceville 15 $20,000 Enslaved African Memorial Committee Teaneck 37 $5,000 Trent House Association Trenton 15 $5,000 Haworth Municipal Library Haworth 39 $5,000 Ukrainian History and Education Center Somerset 17 $5,000 Jewish Historical Society of North Jersey Fair Lawn 38 $5,000 Indian American Club Monroe Twp. 14 $3,000 Ringwood Public Library Ringwood 39 $5,000 Lower Raritan Watershed Partnership New Brunswick 4 $5,000 Waldwick Library Waldwick 40 $5,000 New Jersey Orators, Inc. Bridgewater 7 $3,000 Roxey Ballet Lambertville 23 $3,000 Congressional District 6 Sourland Conservancy Hopewell 15 $9,000 coLAB Arts New Brunswick 17 $5,000 The College of New Jersey Ewing 15 $3,000 Twin Lights Historical Society Highlands 13 $5,000 Asbury Park African-American Music Project Inc Asbury Park 11 $9,000 Congressional District 7 Literacy Volunteers of Somerset County Inc Bridgewater 23 $15,000 General Operating Support (GOS) Phillipsburg Free Public Library Phillipsburg 23 $5,000 These grants were awarded to 501c3 nonprofit organizations that have a mission rooted in the public humanities Roxbury Public Library Succasunna 25 $5,000 and an organizational budget greater than $50,000. Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum Hopewell 16 $5,000 Theater Project a NJ Nonprofit Union 20 $6,880 Program Support (PS) Congressional District 8 These grants were awarded to organizations working on public humanities projects that, at the time of the Hoboken Historical Museum Hoboken 33 $5,000 organization’s application, were already in process. Save Ellis Island, Inc. Augusta 33 $5,000 new jersey council for the humanities 336 Friends Street / CAMDEN, NJ 08102 njhumanities.org 609.695.4838 / [email protected].