PSBI Receives National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation Grant

Pearl S. Buck International was the recent recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Preservation Assistance Grant. In this round of peer-reviewed funding, NEH awarded $37.5 million in grants for 240 humanities projects across the country that support vital humanities education, research, preservation, and public programs.

Pearl S. Buck International was awarded a Preservation Assistance Grant, which helps museums, libraries, historical societies, and archival repositories improve their ability to care for significant humanities collections. The NEH grant will help the Pearl S. Buck House National Historic Landmark Museum with conservation of Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, humanitarian, and activist Pearl S. Buck’s personal collection and scrapbooks related to her founding of Welcome House, the world’s first international adoption agency dedicated to the placement of multi-racial children.

NEH was created in 1965 as an independent federal agency to support research and learning in history, literature, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities by funding selected, peer-reviewed proposals from around the nation. The NEH announcement and a full list of grant recipients can be found at https://www.neh.gov/news/NEH-grant-awards-August-2024.

For more information on Pearl S. Buck International and the Pearl S. Buck House Museum and collections, go to: https://pearlsbuck.org/.