Program

Federal/State Partnership: Grants for State Humanities Councils

Period of Performance

10/1/2008 - 3/31/2010

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$110,750.00 (approved)
$110,750.00 (awarded)


Prime Time Family Reading, Chautauqua, Lincoln, Picturing America

FAIN: BC-50436-08

Kentucky Humanities Council, Inc. (Lexington, KY 40508-2613)
Virginia G. Carter (Project Director: May 2008 to July 2013)
Albert Benjamin Chandler (Project Director: July 2013 to June 2011)

humanities programming for at-risk youth and their families through the Prime Time reading and discussion program in at least 15 public libraries. Book series will mirror the We the People bookshelf theme, Created Equal, and will increase its offerings in Spanish. Chautauqua presentations in the schools will include commemoration of the Lincoln Bicentennial.

Kentucky Humanities Council requests $48,000 for Prime Time Family Reading Time which is based on discussion of humanities themes; $42,750 for Chautauqua development and School programs; $15,000 for Lincoln Bicentennial programs; and $5,000 Picturing America.