PRIME TIME: Forming a more perfect union

FAIN: ZED-283321-22

Prime Time Inc. (New Orleans, LA 70113-1024)
Shelley Stocker (Project Director: May 2021 to April 2025)

Retention of six staff developing and delivering a bilingual book program on the theme “A More Perfect Union,” encouraging literacy and civic engagement among families with young children.

For 30 years, PRIME TIME has provided award-winning humanities-based programming to over 100,000 parents/caregivers and children across 40 states. With a mission to create the precondition for future learning among economically and educationally vulnerable families, PRIME TIME develops new and relevant book series to engage families in the humanities and support parents as their child’s primary educator. PRIME TIME proposes to develop a book series, A More Perfect Union, that will include a bilingual companion series. The book series will be included in the Spark Box, our humanities-at-home program for families experiencing the digital divide and implemented at sites offering the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum on Main Street exhibit, Voices and Votes. As a result, during the pandemic more families will gain access to humanities programming that helps them become informed, engaged citizens and parents will gain support as their child’s educator.