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Lincy
Foundation Awards Grant To The Genocide Education Project
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
- The Lincy Foundation has awarded
a grant to The Genocide Education Project to
support The Genocide Education Project's teacher training,
outreach and educational resource development projects.
"The Lincy Foundation's support is a vote of confidence for our
rapidly developing organization and expands our ability to reach
more teachers and schools to teach about the Armenian Genocide,"
stated Raffi Momjian, Executive Director of the Genocide
Education Project.
In addition to reaching out to public school districts about the
importance of genocide and human rights education, organizing
workshops for teachers, distributing resources and lesson plans
to be used in the classroom, The Genocide Education Project also
maintains a cyber-resource library site at
www.TeachGenocide.com. This
website offers teachers resources for classroom use about the
Armenian Genocide and other gross human rights violations.
Lesson plans and training opportunities are regularly posted on
the site.
The Genocide Education Project recently launched a new site,
www.LearnGenocide.com, which
serves as an online classroom for students to learn about the
Armenian Genocide through a series of interactive activities.
The Genocide Education Project also provides a comprehensive
binder for educators, Human Rights and Genocide: A Case Study
of the First Modern Genocide of the 20th Century, that includes
several step-by-step lesson plans enabling teachers to give
Armenian Genocide courses ranging from one to ten days.
Collaborating with organizations such as The National Council
for the Social Studies, the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum, the Choices Program at Brown University, and Facing
History and Ourselves, The Genocide Education Project has been
able to successfully reach out to non-Armenian communities
through out the country.
Other ground-breaking work of The Genocide Education Project
includes launching the first curriculum-based competition for
educators who teach about the Armenian Case. The Aharonian Award
challenges teachers to develop innovative and effective lesson
plans about the Armenian Genocide, rewarding an educator each
year whose efforts in this field are exemplary.
"The workshops we conduct for educators at both national
conferences and at the district level are one of this
organization's most meaningful activities," said Sara Cohan,
Education Director of The Genocide Education Project. "This year
we are preparing to launch a series of online workshops to reach
individual educators in districts that cannot afford face to
face training sessions," she explained. "Our ultimate goal is
to ensure that every teacher in the United States who wants to
teach about the Armenian Genocide has the resources to do so."
For more information about the work of The Genocide Education
Project, please visit
www.GenocideEducation.org.
The Genocide Education
Project is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization that
assists educators in teaching about human rights and genocide,
particularly the Armenian Genocide, by developing and
distributing instructional materials, providing access to
teaching resources and organizing educational workshops. |
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