Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects for Youth

Period of Performance

12/1/1980 - 1/30/1981

Funding Totals

$25,000.00 (approved)
$25,000.00 (awarded)


Planning for Achievement '79

FAIN: GZ-*1192-79

YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago (Chicago, IL 60603-1401)
Wardell Haywood (Project Director: February 1978 to October 1990)

To plan extra-carricular activities to introduce black, Puerto Rican and Chicano youth to historical, artistic and philosophical issues related to their lives.

To introduce underprivileged youngsters from three distinct minority groups (Black, Puerto Rican, Mexican) to several humanistic disciplines in a non-school setting. Specifically, to expand the existing career-orientation program to include humanities experiences.