[Publib] ALA Cultural Communities Fund needs your support to meet its final campaign goals

[Angela Thullen]

Since 2003, the American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs
Office has worked toward building the Cultural Communities Fund, an
endowment to ensure the ability of libraries and librarians to respond
to community needs for cultural programming.  Now more than ever,
libraries are so much more than books and computers; librarians
powerfully connect citizens to words and ideas, art and music, history
and film, and connect one person to another through cultural dialogue.

 

The campaign to raise matching funds has had great success: in 2008
alone, ALA raised $257,000 toward the National Endowment for the
Humanities' Challenge Grant.  The support of more than 450 individuals
and organizations has brought the ALA Cultural Communities Fund within
close reach of its ambitious goal of $1.4 million, but a final $52,000
remains to be raised before September 2, 2008.

 

At this critical moment, please consider a gift to the Cultural
Communities Fund.  Your contribution will secure your role as a founding
member of this historic campaign to support vital cultural programs in
our libraries and our communities. It is urgent that ALA reach this
goal, both for the benefits the fund will reap for libraries and to
safeguard ALA's reputation for success. In order to take full advantage
of NEH's generous Challenge Grant, we need your support. Please
contribute today at www.ala.org/ccf.

  

With questions, please contact the ALA Public Programs Office,
publicprograms at ala.org

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ALA Public Programs Office
www.ala.org/publicprograms
publicprograms at ala.org

 

 

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