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2006 FoKL Challenge Grants

Friends of Kansas Libraries distributed $1625 to six Kansas libraries in the form of Challenge Grants during the 2006-07 fiscal year. The libraries and their projects are:

• Friends of the W.A. Rankin Memorial Library in Neodesha, member of the Southeastern Kansas Library System, received $400 to create a warm and inviting environment for their young adult readers. They will be purchasing a rug, furniture, and some new books.

• Friends of the Mulvane Public Library, member of the South Central Kansas Library System, received $500 to purchase paint and supplies to repaint the interior of the library. The Friends volunteers assisted with the painting.

• Friends of Lindsborg Library, Inc., member of the South Central Kansas Library System, received $400 to aid in the expansion of the Lindsborg Library’s children’s area with the purchase of pictures books and furnishings.

• Friends of the Baldwin City Library, member of the Northeast Kansas Library System, received $125 which was used to support the cost of their annual meeting that draws members by providing a speaker with an education program and refreshments.

• Friends of the Library of Erie, member of the Southeastern Kansas Library System, received $100 to assist them with author visits at the Erie Library which they would like to have on a quarterly basis.

• Can-Kan Dreambuilders located in Caney in the Southeastern Kansas Library System, received $100 to help them purchase audio video equipment for their library.

 2007 Challenge Grants:

Augusta Friends of the Library

Friends of the Graham County Library

Friends of the Ida Long Goodman Memorial Library, St. John

Friends of the Kingman Carnegie Library

Friends of the Oskaloosa Public Library

Friends of the Towanda Public Library

Friends of the Washburn-Mabee Library

Friends of the White City Public Library

2006 Challenge Grants:

Friends of the W. A. Rankin Memorial Library, Neodesha

Friends of the Mulvane Public Library

Friends of the Lindsborg Library, Inc.

Friends of the Baldwin City Library

Friends of the Library of Erie\

Can-Kan Dreambuilders, Caney

2005 Challenge Grants:

Olathe Public

Louisburg

Tonganoxie

Morrill Library (Hiawatha)

Linn County #2, LaCygne

2004 Challenge Grants:

Andover

Bradford Memorial, El Dorado

Leonard Axe Library, Pittsburg State

Iola Public

Mary Cotton Library, Sabetha

2003 Challenge Grants:

Eureka

2002 Challenge Grants:

Horton

Augusta

Kearney County, Lakin

2001 Challenge Grants:

Ottawa

KIngman

Belleville

Colby