Senior Citizens, Inc. Awarded Grant From Georgia Humanities
Senior Citizens, Inc. (SCI), a nonprofit dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for area seniors, recently received a grant from the Georgia Humanities Council. The Learning Center, SCI’s lifelong learning program, will use the funding to develop and promote an eight-part course on Black authors of the 20th century and to implement technology improvements that will enhance members’ learning experiences.
The course, “African-American Literary Voices of the Twentieth Century,” will take place from April 6 to May 25, 2022 and introduce the biographies and literary achievements of eight African-American authors: Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, August Wilson, and Octavia E. Butler. The grant also includes funding to make technology improvements, including investing in an online video-sharing platform, adding the ability to provide subtitles and captions to virtual programs, and the purchase of an ambient room microphone to improve sound quality.
“We are so grateful to Georgia Humanities for this generous grant,” said Patti Lyons, president of SCI. “This will allow us to not only expand our programming but better serve a more diverse group of older adults, whether in person or virtually.”
The Learning Center of SCI was one of 78 museums, libraries, historical societies, colleges and universities, and other cultural organizations that received more than $1 million from Georgia Humanities to offer programs, sustain operations, and build capacity to recover from the effects of the pandemic. Georgia Humanities received these funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the United States Congress as part of the American Rescue Plan with the charge to respond to the needs of the humanities sector in Georgia.
“The humanities are essential to Georgia’s recovery from the pandemic,” said Laura McCarty, president of Georgia Humanities. “As we converse with our neighbors and exchange perspectives, we learn from each other and how we can emerge stronger from this difficult time. Georgia Humanities is grateful to the National Endowment for the Humanities and Congress for entrusting us to assist in this way at this time. We look forward to the programs and services that these organizations will offer and to sharing how they benefit the people of Georgia in the days ahead.”
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