Maybe they'll move it to New York. The building in New York should be a national landmark and designated for its historical design & architecture. I suppose they'll bring in wrecking balls post haste so no one can put up a fight. Maybe they'll move it to New York. The building in New York should be a national landmark and designated for its historical design & architecture. I suppose they'll bring in wrecking balls post haste so no one can put up a fight.GIving away NASA, businesses, small business grants, and here’s one:
FYI: NEH GRANTS for ‘Bridging Cultures’
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“Bridging Cultures grant opportunity As part of its Bridging Cultures initiative, NEH welcomes proposals to plan and implement a program consisting of a forum and a workshop on one of two humanities themes: “Civility and Democracy” or “The Muslim World and the Humanities.”
Civility and Democracy
Civility has always served as a keystone in the American experiment, from George Washington’s “110 Rules of Civility,” to Abraham Lincoln’s appeal for “malice toward none” and “charity for all,” to Martin Luther King’s dream of the sons of former slaves and slave-owners being able “to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.”
Civility involves our responsibilities to each other as citizens and as members of civil society. Drawing on diverse humanities disciplines—for example, political and cultural history, ethics or jurisprudence—civility might be examined in the following frameworks:
the relationship of civility to the common good;
the relationship between civility and democracy, at various points in time and across cultures;
the sociological and cultural seedbeds of civility;
the ways that civility has served, historically, to bridge cultural divides, both domestic and international.
The Muslim World and the Humanities
The history of the Muslim world is as complex and varied as the diverse nations and peoples who adhere to Islam across the globe. Recent cultural and political dynamics within Muslim countries have increasingly become a focus of scholarly research and public interest. At the same time, many in the public are unfamiliar with the multifaceted history of centuries of Islamic intellectual, political, and cultural traditions that have influenced civilizations throughout the world. The study of diverse humanities disciplines, from comparative literature to regional history, offers the opportunity to shed new light on the impact of Islam on the world and to broaden understanding across cultures. Many different approaches might be taken in exploring such topics from the perspective of humanities disciplines. Some possibilities include, by way of example only, an examination of the influence exerted by cultural developments originating in the Muslim world on the arts, the sciences, and literature elsewhere in the world;
the commonalities uniting and the differences dividing Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, and the grounds for advancing mutual respect; the immigrant experiences of Muslims in the United States, spanning over two centuries of our nation’s history.
In exploring these or other themes, programs should expand public knowledge of the Muslim world, while fostering avenues for cross-cultural understanding.
The forum and the program development workshop
Project proposals for “Civility and Democracy” or “The Muslim World and the Humanities” should consist of two elements: a forum that engages scholars and humanities practitioners in discussion among themselves and with a public audience about one of the two themes; and
a workshop at which humanities practitioners, scholars, and teachers collaborate to devise content, formats, training strategies, and education and dissemination methods for a nationwide or regional program that engages people in communities across the country in reflection on, and discussion of, the forum theme.
The forum and workshop should be integrated intellectually and programmatically.
Successful applicants will be responsible for
planning and implementing all aspects of the academic forum, executing a well-conceived promotional plan to attract public audiences to the forum, recruiting appropriate humanities scholars and practitioners to attend the forum and participate in the workshop, devising an agenda and working structure for the workshop, and
submitting to NEH as the outcome of the forum and workshop a plan for a public program designed to engage a broad, diverse regional or national audience in discussion of the forum theme.
Applicant institutions are encouraged to collaborate with one or more partner institutions as appropriate, to ensure that the requisite scholarly and public programming elements of the project are well conceived and integrated. These might include colleges or universities, libraries, museums, historical societies, or other historical or cultural institutions. Applicants are especially encouraged to include one or more state humanities councils in planning and developing the two-part program.”
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Each successful applicant for a Bridging Cultures Forum and Workshop program will be awarded a grant ranging from $100,000 to $250,000 in outright or matching funds, depending on the applicant’s preference and the availability of NEH funds.
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/BridgingCultures.html