Program

Federal/State Partnership: Grants for State Humanities Councils

Period of Performance

10/1/2008 - 3/31/2010

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$235,570.00 (approved)
$235,570.00 (awarded)


Florida: Finding A Sense of Place

FAIN: BC-50432-08

Florida Humanities Council (St. Petersburg, FL 33701-5005)
Susan Lockwood (Project Director: May 2008 to May 2016)

Television documentaries, radio programs and other humanities projects as part of the special initiative, "Florida: A Sense of Place," which will examine Florida's post WWII transformation and its impact on state identity.

Competitive grants awarded to public television documentaries, along with radio programs created by FHC, will examine Florida's post WW II transformation and how its impact on neighborhoods, communities, landscape, built environment, and state identity. Programs will act as conversation starters for public programs examining the connection between sense of place and civic engagement.