Vaccine Preventable Diseases

Reproductive and Child Health

Conditions Associated with Poverty

Libraries and Public Access to Information

Education

Pacific Northwest

Special Projects

INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY GRANTS

The foundation partners with public libraries serving the general public in locations as diverse as Canada and Chile, supporting innovative programs that enable all individuals to improve their lives with information and technology.

Jeri Miltenberger is a librarian who has been traveling throughout the Northwest Territories to establish cyber-libraries in remote hamlets and provide computer training.

Alberta Library (Edmonton, AB - Canada)
$901,296 for 1 year to support Alberta's public libraries serving low-income communities with a gift of public access computers, Internet access, and training of library staff.

Direccion de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos-(DIBAM) (Santiago, Chile)
$7,387,000 for 1 year to provide public access to computers and Internet access to libraries in Chile.

Helsinki City Library (Helsinki, Finland)
$1,000,000 for 1 year to confer the Access to Learning Award in recognition of their outstanding efforts to provide public access to computers and the Internet in useful and innovative ways.

Medical Library Association, Inc. (Chicago, IL)
$30,000 for 1 year to enable ten international librarians to attend the IFLA 2001 Conference in Boston, MA.

Northwest Territories Public Library Services (Hay River, NT - Canada)
$219,219 for 1 year to support Northwest Territories' public libraries serving low-income communities with a gift of public access computers, Internet access, and training of library staff.

Quebec Ministere de la Culture et des Communications (Quebec City, QP - Canada)
$5,471,562 for 1 year to support Quebec's public libraries serving low-income communities with a gift of public access computers, Internet access, and training of library staff.

Saskatchewan Library Association (Regina, SK - Canada)
$636,956 for 1 year to support Saskatchewan's public libraries serving low-income communities with a gift of public access computers, Internet access, and training of library staff.

Yukon Department of Education (Whitehorse, YT - Canada)
$150,364 for 1 year to support Yukon's public libraries serving low-income communities with a gift of public access computers, Internet access, and training of library staff.

Yukon Department of Education (Whitehorse, YT - Canada)
$52,055 for 1 month to support Yukon's public libraries serving low-income communities by establishing an 11 workstation computer-training lab.