Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program

The Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program provides financial assistance to organizations working to preserve historic Japanese American confinement sites and their history. Eligible projects include capital projects, documentation, oral history interviews, interpretation and education, preservation, and planning projects. The program requires a 2:1 Federal to non-Federal match. The grant program aims to identify, research, evaluate, interpret, protect, restore, repair, and acquire historic confinement sites. Some examples of eligible projects include: • Capital projects, such as construction of new interpretive centers, restrooms, and interpretive trails • Documentation, such as identification, research, and evaluation of historic confinement sites • Oral history interviews, including recording, transcribing, digitally processing, and sharing the interviews • Interpretation and education related to historic confinement sites, such as wayside exhibits, creative arts, and educational curricula • Preservation of confinement sites and related historic resources, such as stabilization, rehabilitation, restoration, acquisition, relocation of historic buildings and structures to their original locations, reconstruction of key structures, and collections conservation • Planning projects, such as interpretive plans for new exhibits and programs, land use plans, and resource management plans