City of Alexandria, Virginia
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MEMORANDUM
DATE: MAY 20, 2015
TO: THE HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL
FROM: MARK B. JINKS, CITY MANAGER /s/
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Consideration of a Grant Application to the National Endowment for the Humanities and Accepting a Grant Award From the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities for Immigrant Alexandria Project.
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ISSUE: Council consideration of a grant application to the National Endowment for the Humanities for a one year planning grant, and accepting a planning grant award from the Virginia Endowment for the Humanities to begin implementation of a city-wide interpretive initiative, Immigrant Alexandria: Past, Present, and Future project celebrating the history of diversity in Alexandria.
RECOMMENDATION: That City Council authorize the City Manager to:
(1) Submit a grant application (due by August 13) to the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), requesting $65,000 in funding;
(2) Accept a grant award of $8,000 from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities; and
(3) Authorize the City Manager to execute all necessary documents that may be required.
BACKGROUND: In accordance goals and objectives outlined in the Alexandria City Council Strategic Plan, as revised June 2010, the Office of Historic Alexandria (OHA) is developing a multi-year departmental work program highlighting the long history of cultural diversity in Alexandria. To achieve the strategic goals, Immigrant Alexandria will consist of the following components to engage the public: archival research; consultation with recognized scholars and content experts; organization of a public symposium; development of oral histories of recent immigrants to the City, as well as representatives from various groups that have migrated to Alexandria over time; preliminary design for future interpretive formats to be fu...
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