Arthurdale Heritage awarded $25,000 grant for modernization
January 16, 2024
Arthurdale Heritage has been awarded a $25,000 grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities’ (NEH) Public Impact Projects at Smaller Organizations Program.
This grant is just one of 206 new grants from the NEH which are given to humanities projects across the country and total $33.8 million. According to the NEH the Arthurdale grant “will help the museum modernize and update its exhibitions on the history of Arthurdale, the nation’s first New Deal Community.”
Curator & Director of Education Arthurdale Heritage Elizabeth Satterfield said that prior to the grant, plans were already in the making of how to modernize the heritage center, but now the grant will help take those plans even further.