| BC-50322-06 | Federal/State Partnership: Grants for State Humanities Councils | Kentucky Humanities Council, Inc. | Prime Time Family Reading,Chautauqua, and Reader Survey | 9/1/2006 - 3/31/2008 | $95,700.00 | Albert | Benjamin | Chandler | | | | Kentucky Humanities Council, Inc. | Lexington | KY | 40508-2613 | USA | 2006 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Grants for State Humanities Councils | Federal/State Partnership | 80700 | 15000 | 80700 | 15000 | To support Prime Time Family Reading programs held in libraries for at-risk youth and their parents; the development of a new Chautauqua program focused on the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, together with new Chautauqua programs for schools; and Kentucky Humanities magazine, a twice-yearly publication focusing on Kentucky history and culture.
Kentucky Humanities Council requests $46,000 for Prime Time Family Reading Time which is based on discussion of themes in the humanities; $44,700 to develop new Chautauqua for the Lincoln Bicentennial and to provide Chautauqua to schools state wide; and $5,000 to conduct a readership survey of Kentucky Humanities magazine to determine if it is an effective humanities program focusing on history and culture that we should expand. |