Cultural Resilience Initiatives
Strengthening Communities, Preserving Culture, and Advancing Recovery After Super Typhoon Sinlaku
Treasures of the Marianas – Heritage Preservation, protect What Matters Most. Preserve Your Family History.
Save Your Family Treasures Workshop is presented by representatives from the Heritage Emergency National Task Force (HENTF).
Learn practical techniques to protect and recover:
• Family photographs
• Important documents
• Books and albums
• Heirlooms and keepsakes
• Cultural and historical materials
Cultural Resilience Partnership Program – CRPP is a humanities-based recovery initiative of the Northern Marianas Humanities Council supporting cultural and community organizations impacted by Super Typhoon Sinlaku.
The program strengthens cultural recovery through structured partnerships that combine funding, consultation, procurement support, and documentation of humanities-based work.
Navigating Sinlaku Microgrant Program
Financial support for adult CNMI residents whose humanities-based projects, practices, or public cultural work were disrupted by Super Typhoon Sinlaku. The program helps residents resume, restore, strengthen, expand, or sustain nonprofit, public-facing humanities activities that benefit the community.
Cultural Craft Artist Recovery
Microgrant Program
Financial support for CNMI cultural craft artists whose practice was negatively impacted by Super Typhoon Sinlaku. The program helps artists recover and continue public-facing cultural craft practices that contribute to the cultural heritage of the Northern Mariana Islands.
Village Diaries – documenting community experiences, oral histories, and stories of survival, recovery, and resilience following Super Typhoon Sinlaku.
