Program

Challenge Programs: Challenge Grants for Research Libraries

Period of Performance

12/1/1984 - 7/31/1989

Funding Totals (matching)

$500,000.00 (approved)
$500,000.00 (offered)
$500,000.00 (awarded)


Challenge Grant

FAIN: CK-20011-86

American Antiquarian Society (Worcester, MA 01609-1634)
Lynnette Sodha (Project Director: May 1985 to December 1989)

To establish an endowment whose income will support library acquisitions; the salaries of a professional conservator and intern; the enhancement of staff salaries and the hiring of two new cataloguers; and the basic administrative costs of the office of Associate Director for Research and Publication.