***PRESS RELEASE***
April 17, 2007
The Genocide Education Project
51 Commonwealth Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94118
(415) 264-4203
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www.GenocideEd ucation.org
Contact: Raffi Momjian – [email protected]
LINCY FOUNDATION AWARDS GRANT TO THE GENOCIDE EDUCATION PROJECT
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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 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,
, 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
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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.