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LEH Awards Twelve Grants in Support of Ongoing Disaster Recovery

The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, with the support of the State of Louisiana, has awarded 12 Emergency Recovery Grants totaling $100,000 to humanities-based nonprofits in the 25-parish area declared a federal disaster zone following Hurricane Ida. Emergency Recovery Grants provide funds for facility repairs or upgrades to reduce vulnerability, clean up, remediation, rental of temporary meeting space, or other action that can mitigate the effects of past or future natural disasters.  

 

Bonnet Carre Historical Center / 1811 Kid Ory Historic House 

LaPlace, St. John the Baptist Parish 

$10,000 

 

Garyville Timbermill Museum Association 

Garyville, St. John the Baptist Parish 

$10,000 

 

Lafourche Parish Public Library 

Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish 

$10,000 

 

Maritime Museum Louisiana (formerly Lake Pontchartrain Basin Maritime Museum)

Madisonville, St. Tammany Parish 

$8,000 

 

Longue Vue House and Gardens 

New Orleans, Orleans Parish 

$1,000 

 

Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum Foundation 

Angola, West Feliciana Parish 

$10,000 

 

Nous Foundation 

New Orleans, Orleans Parish 

$6,000 

 

Pointe Coupee Historical Society 

New Roads, Pointe Coupee Parish 

$10,000 

 

Regional Military Museum Foundation 

Houma, Terrebonne Parish 

$5,000 

 

River Road Historical Society doing business as Destrehan Plantation 

Destrehan, St. Charles Parish 

$10,000 

 

Terrebonne Historical and Cultural Society, Inc./Southdown Museum 

Houma, Terrebonne Parish 

$10,000 

 

The Woman’s Exchange d.b.a. Hermann-Grima + Gallier Historic Houses 

New Orleans, Orleans Parish 

$10,000