Program

Public Programs: Special Projects

Period of Performance

7/1/1977 - 6/30/1978

Funding Totals

$286,990.00 (approved)
$286,990.00 (awarded)


Senior Center Humanities Program

FAIN: GP-10313-77

National Council on the Aging, Inc. (Washington, DC 20036-5104)
Ronald A.F. Alvarez (Project Director: July 1977 to present)

A grant to continue to expand upon Senior Center Humanities Program. A reading and discussion activity designed to enhance the lives of older Americans and to increase their involvement in the humanities and to support development, testing, revision and publication of three additional humanities units during 1977-78. Senior Center members at fifty locations will participate. Grant will test approaches to humanistic materials proposed by the program and its appeal to the audience toward which the units are aimed. Information will be disseminated.