| CH-50151-05 | Challenge Programs: Challenge Grants | Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities | Louisiana Humanities Center at Turners Hall | 12/1/2003 - 7/31/2008 | $500,000.00 | Miranda | | Restovic | | | | Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities | New Orleans | LA | 70113-1027 | USA | 2004 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Challenge Grants | Challenge Programs | 0 | 500000 | 0 | 500000 | Purchase and renovation of historic Turners Hall as the new Humanities Center for the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and endowment for expanded humanities programming.
The LEH has launched a three-year,$4.385 million capital campaign for capital projects and programs endowment to enable the LEH to (1) Complete purchase and conversion of the historic Humanities Center at Turners Hall into a state-of-the-art, economically self-sustaining statewide Learning Center, including multi-use auditorium and seminar rooms equipped with the Internet, presentation and compressed video-conferencing technology to train PRIME TIME family literacy participants, Advanced Teacher Institutes (including “Teaching American History” seminars under a $1 million U.S. Dept. of Education grant) and other humanities programs; and (2) Create operating endowment for expanded statewide humanities programing. |