Program

Challenge Programs: Challenge Grants for Public Libraries

Period of Performance

1/1/1983 - 7/31/1991

Funding Totals (matching)

$1,000,000.00 (approved)
$1,000,000.00 (offered)
$1,000,000.00 (awarded)


Challenge Grant

FAIN: CQ-20035-84

Chicago Public Library Foundation (Chicago, IL 60611-4006)
Margaret Davis (Project Director: June 1983 to August 1991)

To assist in the renovation of the Goldblatt Building for a new central library; to build an endowment for preservation and acquisitions; and to support temporary staff to catalog special collections.