JAPANESE AMERICAN CONFINEMENT SITES GRANT PROGRAM - Applications are Now Available

"The National Park Service is honored to help preserve through these grants the stories and historic sites of fellow Americans who endured a shameful chapter our nation must never forget,” said National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis. “With the help of Congress, this important program continues to help preserve vital testimony – in words, images, scholarship and places – to the need to guard our constitutional rights against injustice, prejudice and fear.”                                                                                                                 ABOUT THE JAPANESE AMERICAN CONFINEMENT SITES GRANT PROGRAM

Congress established the Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) grant program (Public Law 109-441, 16 USC 461) for the preservation and interpretation of U.S. confinement sites where Japanese Americans were detained during World War II.  The law authorized up to $38 million for the entire life of the grant program to identify, research, evaluate, interpret, protect, restore, repair, and acquire historic confinement sites in order that present and future generations may learn and gain inspiration from these sites and that these sites will demonstrate the nation’s commitment to equal justice under the law.

Japanese American Confinement Sites grants are awarded to preserve and interpret U.S. Confinement Sites where Japanese Americans were detained during World War II. Grants are awarded to organizations and entities working to preserve historic Japanese American confinement sites and their history, including: private nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, and state, local, and tribal governments, and other public entities. Grants will be awarded through a competitive process and require a 2:1 Federal to non-Federal match ($2 Federal to $1 non-Federal match).  The minimum grant request is $5,000.

Fiscal Year 2013 Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Applications are now available! For more information about the grant program and grant application process, please visit the following website:   http://www.nps.gov/hps/hpg/JACS/index.html

Applications must be received by Thursday, November 1, 2012.

JACS grants will be awarded dependent on funds appropriated by Congress. 
Click here for the full press release and list of projects awarded in FY 2012.

Hawaii contact:
Paul DePrey
Phone:  808-266-0826
Email:  paul_deprey@nps.gov

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