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Mead Witter Foundation Challenge Grant
The Society’s Library and Archives Preservation Endowment received another boost recently when the Board of Directors of the Mead Witter Foundation of Wisconsin Rapids granted the Wisconsin Historical Foundation’s request for a $200,000 special grant. The grant offer requires the Foundation, through a two-to-one match, to raise an additional $400,000 in new cash and pledges for the endowment by June 30, 2006.
The Mead Witter Foundation previously provided a one-to-one challenge grant of a $100,000 for the endowment in 2004. In recognition of this generous support, the Wisconsin Historical Foundation will name a portion of the endowment the Mead Witter Foundation Preservation Fund. All gifts associated with the Mead Witter Foundation challenge grants have been or ultimately will be matched by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Last May, NEH awarded the Wisconsin Historical Foundation a $500,000 matching grant for the endowment that requires a four-to-one match. When the Foundation meets that goal on or before January 31, 2008, the Library and Archives Preservation Endowment will total $2.5 million. To date, with the new Mead Witter Foundation grant, fund-raising success now approaches $1.4 million.
The Wisconsin Historical Foundation and the Wisconsin Historical Society salute the Mead Witter Foundation not only for this latest offer, but also for its long-standing commitment. In the past, Mead Witter has supported a number of Society endeavors, including the creation of a Paper Conservation lab, the purchase of the 1990 Census, preservation of the H. H. Bennett glass-plate negatives, and underwriting for the first season of Wisconsin Stories. Over the years, Mead Witter has also generously contributed to the annual fund.
If you would like more information about making a gift to the Library and Archives Preservation Endowment, please contact Melinda Heinritz at the Wisconsin Historical Foundation at (608) 264-6585 or at mvheinritz@whs.wisc.edu. With the Mead Witter and NEH challenges in place, each dollar you contribute will result in another 75 cents for the endowment.
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