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The LEH is one of ten organizations to
receive $100,000 Endowment Challenge Grants
from the Community Foundation of
Shreveport-Bossier. The $1 million initiative
is designed to build capacity among
non-profit organizations that provide program
services in the Shreveport-Bossier area. For
its part, the LEH has committed to exceeding
the Challenge requirements by providing
$150,000 to the project.
The $250,000 combined endowment will generate enough funds annually to significantly augment the LEH's existing efforts in Shreveport-Bossier. When LEH programs such as the Prime Time Family Reading Time, RELIC, the summer Teacher Institutes, the Teaching American History institutes and the LEH Grants Program are added together, the LEH has invested more than $2.2 million in educational and humanities programming in the Shreveport-Bossier region. "This is why local foundations and donors ought to leverage their charitable investment through the LEH to maximize quality and impact," said LEH President and Executive Director Michael Sartisky. The LEH has launched a new initiative to work closely with foundations and donors throughout Louisiana to leverage their charitable funds through the LEH to increase LEH programming in their communities.
This marks the third major challenge grant
the LEH has received in the past year. In
addition to this grant, the LEH has been
awarded a $400,000 Challenge Grant from the
Kresge Foundation and a $350,000 Challenge
Grant from the National Endowment for the
Humanities. All three grant processes were
highly competitive. The fact that all three
were awarded within a year indicates the
effectiveness of the LEH's programs, the
confidence these organizations have in the
LEH, and especially in the case of Kresge and
the NEH, the confidence they have in the
LEH's new Louisiana Humanities Center and in
a re-building New Orleans.
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The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities is
now accepting nominations for its Annual
Awards for Outstanding Achievement in the
Humanities including the Humanist of the
Year, Humanities Teacher of the Year,
Humanities Book of the Year, the Chair's
Institutional Award for Support of the
Humanities, etc. Winners will be honored next
spring at the Annual Humanities Awards Event.
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Writers and documentary photographers,
exploring Louisiana-related cultural topics,
may be eligible to receive special grants up
to $4,000 through the Louisiana Endowment for
the Humanities' annual Louisiana Publishing
Initiative grants program. The LEH announces
the availability of grants to authors writing
on Louisiana humanities non-fiction topics,
such as literature, history, languages,
music, cultural anthropology, folk life or
other humanities disciplines. Grants of
$4,000 also are available for documentary
photographers to document various aspects of
Louisiana's diverse culture. All awards must
culminate in a completed book-length
manuscript. Novels and poetry are not
eligible. The application deadline is Feb.
15, 2008.
Past recipients include books such as Philip
Gould's Louisiana's Capitol, Gwendolyn
Midlo Hall's Africans in Colonial Louisiana,
Elizabeth Mullener's Eyewitness: Tales of
New Orleanians in World War II, and Jay
Edwards's Plantations by the River.
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PRIME TIME is hosting a training workshop for
the new team members working with Spring 2008
PRIME TIME sites in Louisiana. The training
workshop is scheduled for Dec. 1-2, 2007, at
the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities'
state-of-the-art Education Center at Turners
Hall. The two-day workshop will prepare team
members in their respective roles. "The PRIME
TIME staff and training workshop presenters
look forward to meeting and working with all
new team members," said PRIME TIME Director
Faye Flanagan. For more information on this
and future PRIME TIME training workshops
contact Assistant Director Shantrell Adams at
adams@leh.org.
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Seventeen teachers from Bethune Middle
Academy in Shreveport attended the Saturday
teacher workshop designed to train educators
in using the PRIME TIME methodology in their
classrooms. PRIME TIME scholar Helen Taylor,
PhD, PRIME TIME Associate Director Olivia
Pass, PhD, and PRIME TIME storyteller Janine
Demerath led the one-day intensive workshop
that focused on Socratic learning and
discovery through discussion. Although the
workshop was originally planned for only
humanities teachers, math teachers and others
outside the humanities learned to create
open-ended questions to raise the critical
thinking skills of their students. Among the
comments collected from teacher evaluations
were the following: "Excellent presenters
and collaboration!" and "The presenters
demonstrated excellent application skills and
strategies that will enhance our faculty
preparation, application, and interactive
skills within the classrooms." Schools or
school systems interested in learning more
about the PRIME TIME Teacher Workshops should
contact Associate Director Olivia Pass, PhD,
at pass@leh.org.
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"Teamwork and dedication to the families are
the ingredients that are making the
eight-week PRIME TIME program at Benjamin
Banneker Elementary School (RSD) in New
Orleans a great success," said PRIME TIME
Assistant Director Miranda Restovic, who is
the monitor for the Banneker site. With an
average attendance of 60 participants per
session, the Banneker PRIME TIME team is able
to reach out to nearly 30 families and engage
them every Wednesday for what Principal
Cheryllyn Branche coined "dinner and a book."
Discussion leaders are Ken Rayes, UNO
faculty member, and Olayeela Daste, a local
storyteller. School staff includes Assistant
Principal Sister Marie Noel, teacher Kathleen
Wagner, teacher Carolyn Dupuy, and a number
of staff and student volunteers.
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On Oct. 25th, the LEH took nine Caddo Parish
public school teachers on a three-day visit
to Washington, D.C., as part of the LEH and
Caddo Public School System's three-year
Teaching American History Grant from the U.S.
Department of Education. While in Washington,
teachers visited the National Archives, U.S.
Capitol, White House and Library of Congress.
Teachers also were given time to visit other
Washington landmarks during their stay.
Leading the tour was Dr. William Pederson,
director of LSUS's International Lincoln
Center for American Studies, and LEH Deputy
Director John Kemp. The LEH and Caddo School
System are now in the third year of the
program. Over the last two summers, 129
Shreveport area public school teachers
attended six graduate-level institutes in
American history at LSU Shreveport. This past
summer the LEH completed a similar program
for public school teachers in Orleans Parish.
Next summer, the LEH will begin a three-year
Teaching American History series of summer
institutes in partnership with Calcasieu
Parish Public Schools and McNeese State
University.
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The RELIC Summer/Fall programs are winding
down and audiences have enjoyed discussions
in readings in subjects ranging from
immigration and Creole culture to the
American West and World War II. Public
libraries participating this summer and fall
were located in Abbeville, Baldwin, Bastrop,
Baton Rouge, Covington, Gonzales, Houma,
Metairie, Ringgold, Vidalia and Winnfield.
Those interested in participating in future
RELIC adult reading groups should contact
their local libraries. For more information
about future RELIC programs, contact Jim
Segreto at 504.620.2477, 800.909.7990 ext.
118 or segreto@leh.org
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Beginning Nov. 1, Jennifer Mitchel will
become Director of Special Projects,
overseeing LEH's data management and the
development of the Louisiana Online
Encyclopedia of History and Culture.
Associate Director Gary Talarchek, PhD, has
been promoted to Director of Grants.
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Louisiana Book Festival (LEH grant of
$20,389)
Saturday, Nov. 3, 10am-5pm Louisiana State Capitol, Baton Rouge Louisiana's FREE, world-class literary celebration offers children and adult booklovers unique opportunities to interact with over 100 exceptional poets, writers and storytellers and to enjoy an inspiring variety of book-related activities, exhibitions and demonstrations. Food & Music, too! www.louisianabookfestival.org Louisiana Main to Main: A Cultural Road Show (6 LEH grants totaling nearly $14,000) Various Saturdays in November in Ruston, New Orleans, Eunice, New Iberia, Abbeville and Plaquemine. Experience authentic Louisiana heritage, music, art and crafts, food, and much more during a month-long extravaganza of festivals and special events in November. Louisiana Main Street and designated Main Street Communities throughout the state host the first annual "Louisiana Main to Main, A Cultural Road Show" to collectively showcase our culture, commerce, history, and our abundance of creative and natural assets, and encourages road trips from one Main Street community to the next. See www.louisianamaintomain.org
Conversations with Brenda Marie Osbey
(LEH grant of $2,500) |
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Give the gift of all things Louisiana this
Holiday Season by purchasing subscriptions to
Louisiana Cultural Vistas. The
quarterly magazine of the LEH features the
best of the Bayou State's artists, writers,
photographers and scholars. For a mere $16,
treat family, friends, clients and coworkers
to a year's worth of enlightenment and
entertainment. Make your shopping quick and
easy by simply logging on to www.leh.org or
call (504) 523-4352. We invite you to view
seven past issues of our award-winning
magazine by logging onto our website as well.
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