Program

Challenge Programs: Challenge Grants

Period of Performance

6/1/2002 - 12/31/2007

Funding Totals (matching)

$180,000.00 (approved)
$140,000.00 (offered)
$140,000.00 (awarded)


The Delta Cultural History Project

FAIN: CH-20781-05

Mississippi Action for Community Edu., Inc. (Greenville, MS 38701)
Ruby Buck (Project Director: May 2000 to December 2000)
Cornelius J. Jones (Project Director: December 2000 to January 2005)
Catherine Courtney (Project Director: January 2005 to August 2011)

Endowment to fund a position of Director of Cultural Programming, and the purchase and conservation of materials for a permanent exhibit on the Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival.