Humanities Washington provided a grant in the amount of $10,000 to support our 2010 – 11 project, Voices of the First People: Creating Website Access for Presentation of Audio & Video Recordings from the Vi Hilbert Collection. This project is a partnership with the Ethnomusicology Archives at the University of Washington’s School of Music and Lushootseed Research.

The Folk and Traditional Arts Program at the National Endowment for the Arts has provided $30,000 in grant support for our 2010-11 Building New Audiences for Traditional Arts in Washington’s Underserved Communities project. The NEA  has also awarded a grant of $25,000 to support a second year of our Native Stories of Washington project in 2010-11.

We are pleased to report that the Korean Traditional Performing Arts Foundation supported an artist residency in western Washington with talented Korean traditional musician Young Sub Lee for March – July 2011.  This is the second Korean artist residency NW Heritage Resources has hosted in partnership with the Ethnomusicology Department at the University of Washington.  In 2009 the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports & Tourism sponsored a western Washington residency with Korean gayageum player Bora Ju.    

Northwest Heritage Resources was very fortunate to receive funding provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that was awarded as a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. This funding has helped to support traditional artists who perform for Washington State Parks & Recreation Commission’s Folk & Traditional Arts in the Parks Program, and to maintain the position of Executive Director at Northwest Heritage Resources for 2009-2010.

The Folk & Traditional Arts Program at the National Endowment for the Arts funded our 2009-10 project, Cascade Loop Heritage Tour – South, and our 2008-09 project, Native American Stories of Washington. For more about these projects see the link from the home page of our website.

The NEA has also provided Traditional Arts Infrastructure funding - through the Washington State Arts Commission - for critical organizational support for Northwest Heritage Resources in 2007-2010.

Northwest Heritage Resources received grant funding from the Washington Women's History Consortium to support our 2008-09 project, Native American Women Elders and Storytellers of Washington. For this project we are recording the oral histories of Native American women elders from tribes located throughout Washington state. The Washington Suffrage Centennial is officially organized by the Washington Women’s History Consortium.

Northwest Heritage Resources received grant funding from the 2007 Heritage Cultural Education Program to support our educational project, Teaching King County Cultural Geography, Communities & Their Traditions Using the Internet.  Look for the educational resource and curriculum materials that are now available to all Washington state educators on this website.

The Folk Arts Program at the Washington State Arts Commission has provided funding for a Latino music and composers documentation project, cultural heritage tour guide marketing, and critical organizational support for Northwest Heritage Resources in 2007-2009.

The Florence Wasmer Fund for Arts and Culture of Inland Northwest Community Foundation provided grant funding to support the Hispanic Heritage Celebration 2007 at Riverside State Park in Spokane, WA. The event was presented by Northwest Heritage Resources in partnership with the Folk & Traditional Arts in the Parks program for the Washington State Parks & Recreation Commission and the Hispanic Business Professional Association of Spokane.