Prime Time Inc. (New Orleans, LA 70113-1024)
Shelley Stocker (Project Director: May 2021 to present)
ZED-283321-22
ARP-Organizations (Education-related)
Agency-wide Projects
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Totals:
$199,979 (approved)
$199,979 (awarded)
Grant period:
10/1/2021 – 9/30/2022
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PRIME TIME: Forming a more perfect union
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.
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Prime Time Inc. (New Orleans, LA 70113-1024)
Sarah DeBacher (Project Director: May 2020 to present)
AH-274439-20
Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Education)
Education Programs
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Totals:
$269,988 (approved)
$269,987 (awarded)
Grant period:
6/15/2020 – 4/30/2021
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PRIME TIME:Bringing Humanities-Based Education Home
Funding of four positions to enhance a family reading and discussion program, develop a new digital delivery model, and produce and broadcast a humanities-based podcast.
Since 1991, PRIME TIME, Inc., has provided humanities-based literacy programming to thousands of educationally and economically vulnerable families in Louisiana. Taking the lessons learned from nearly 30 years of implementing in-person programs, PRIME TIME proposes to meet its target audience where they are already and safely at: online and at home. Through developing a new book series exploring humanities themes relevant to times of crisis, distributing the new series along with humanities-based activities in kits statewide, and producing a podcast focused on discovering the humanities in children's books, the proposed project will bring the humanities directly into homes of 800 Louisiana families. As a result, families will gain access to high-quality children's literature and engaging humanities-based programming online and on the radio, and parents will come away feeling more comfortable in their role as their child's primary educator.
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Prime Time Inc. (New Orleans, LA 70113-1024)
Miranda Restovic (Project Director: May 2016 to present)
ZH-252963-17
Humanities Access Grants
Challenge Programs
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Totals (matching):
$100,000 (approved)
$100,000 (offered)
$100,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
5/1/2016 – 9/30/2021
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Prime Time Preschool Louisiana Expansion
To expand Prime Family reading by adding 30 new
locations.
Effective humanities programs help to close the educational achievement gap often experienced by economically vulnerable children, and they work to ensure an engaged, educated, and thoughtful citizenry. Armed with evidence of success, PRIME TIME, Inc. respectfully requests the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to expand and sustain its PRIME TIME Preschool program via the Humanities Access grant. PRIME TIME, Inc. commits to raise $100,000 between May 2016 and May 2018. Combined with the one-to-one match from the NEH, these funds will be invested in a term endowment with the Community Foundation of North Louisiana, with which the LEH currently invests funds. In total, $200,000 will be devoted to supporting PRIME TIME Preschool programming throughout Louisiana from May 2018 to June 2021.
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Prime Time Inc. (New Orleans, LA 70113-1024)
Miranda Restovic (Project Director: January 2012 to December 2014)
GI-50466-12
America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Implementation Grants
Public Programs
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Totals:
$355,383 (approved)
$355,383 (awarded)
Grant period:
10/1/2012 – 9/30/2014
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It's a Small World After All: Global Citizenship Education for the 21st Century
Implementation of a new library reading and discussion series for at-risk families in five states focusing on the theme of global citizenship.
"It's a Small World After All: Global Citizenship Education for the 21st Century" is a reading and discussion initiative developed by PRIME TIME, Inc. The project includes a new syllabus which focuses on themes of global citizenship. We live in a unique time in human history where the ideas, actions, and decisions of people on distant continents can quickly influence our daily lives. Developing knowledge and understanding of the concepts and forces that bind humanity is critical to our ability to fully participate in and positively contribute to our local and global communities. (Oxfam, 2006) The new syllabus is coupled with a new implementation format involving enhanced partnerships between three critical stakeholders-state humanities councils, public libraries, and public schools-to better serve and engage at-risk parents/guardians and their 6-10 year old children.
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Prime Time Inc. (New Orleans, LA 70113-1024)
Miranda Restovic (Project Director: August 2009 to February 2012)
GI-50185-10
America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Implementation Grants
Public Programs
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Totals:
$250,000 (approved)
$250,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
4/1/2010 – 6/30/2011
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Prime Time Family Reading: Multicultural Outreach
Reading and discussion programs for underserved families at libraries in five states, exploring humanities themes through children's literature.
PRIME TIME supports intergenerational literacy and offers opportunities for rigorous humanities experiences to low-income, low-literacy children and their parents/guardians. This unique 6 week humanities-based program of reading, discussion, and storytelling uses award-winning children's literature and trains scholars and storytellers to facilitate rich, provocative discussions. The goals of PRIME TIME are to: promote the humanities among at-risk populations; enable families to bond through reading and learning together; convert families into active readers, library users and life-long learners. To achieve these goals, help librarians reach out to underserved populations, engage immigrant populations in a meaningful cultural exchange, and build the necessary infrastructure to sustain the program PRIME TIME, Inc., in partnership with the American Library Association, will launch a multicultural syllabus called Common Ground by implementing 20 programs in 5 states.
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Prime Time Inc. (New Orleans, LA 70113-1024)
Dianne Brady (Project Director: January 2007 to January 2009)
LI-50358-07
Libraries Implementation
Public Programs
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Totals:
$275,212 (approved)
$275,212 (awarded)
Grant period:
10/1/2007 – 12/31/2008
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Prime Time Family Reading: Bilingual National Outreach
Implementation of 20 bilingual family reading and discussion programs, four programs each in five states.
In keeping with its mission to reach people historically underserved by humanities organizations and public libraries because of their low-literacy levels, to respond to the literacy needs of English language learners, and to build the necessary infrastructure for expansion and sustainability of this turnkey, Coming Up Taller award-winning humanities-based program, PRIME TIME FAMILY READING, INC. in partnership with the American Library Association's Public Programs Office will implement 20 mostly bilingual reading and discussion programs (4 programs each in 5 states).
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