The Indianapolis Public Library Foundation Announces Grant from the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust
Posted on November 16, 2017
The Indianapolis Public Library Foundation has received a grant totaling $70,000 from the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust.
“Since 2009, The Indianapolis Public Library’s Ready to Read initiative has provided more than 50,000 children aged birth through five each year with access to the books, materials and learning opportunities needed for a successful start to school,” Roberta Jaggers, President of the Library Foundation, said. “This grant from the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust will give us additional resources to offer quality early learning experiences to our community’s youngest children and equip childcare providers with the skills they need to effectively prepare children for kindergarten.”
“During her career, Nina Mason Pulliam shared her financial success and business leadership skills with many charities. She had a keen awareness of challenges that face our community and would take great pride in the outstanding work being done by organizations like The Indianapolis Public Library Foundation,” said Trustee Kent Agness. "Through her Trust, we continue to build on her legacy, which clearly reflects her heart for philanthropy."
The Indianapolis Public Library Foundation’s support delivers, in part or in whole, many important initiatives at The Indianapolis Public Library that patrons have grown to know and appreciate. With the help of the Library Foundation’s generous donors, these and other activities are available free of charge to residents of all ages of Marion County. In 2016, the Library Foundation invested $2.5 million in more than 60 programs and services.
The grant to The Indianapolis Public Library Foundation represents one of 29 awarded to organizations in Indiana by the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust during the second of two grant cycles this year. Since the Trust began its grant making in 1998, it has awarded more than $292 million to 963 organizations in its home states of Indiana and Arizona. For more information about the Trust and its programs visit www.ninapulliamtrust.org.