Program

Public Programs: Special Projects

Period of Performance

9/1/1983 - 2/28/1986

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$577,525.00 (approved)
$577,525.00 (awarded)


Senior Center Humanities Program

FAIN: GP-21033-83

National Council on the Aging, Inc. (Washington, DC 20036-5104)
Ronald J. Manheimer (Project Director: March 1983 to October 1990)

This project also received funding with the renewal award listed below.

Subsequent award (renewal) GP-21265-86

To support a series of weekly discussions for older adults at 180 sites nationwide. Trained volunteer leaders use a thematically organized anthology of literary works. One anthology now being prepared on "The Search for Meaning" includes works by Conrad, Kant, Camus, and others.