Monona Library and Madison Community Foundation Grants

The Monona Public Library recently snagged two significant grants from the Madison Community Foundation.

The first grant, in the amount of $25,000, will be used to launch a Health & Wellness Collection (More info below).

The second grant is a challenge grant for up to $50,000 on a 1:2 basis. The library will receive one dollar for every two dollars raised. Fundraising will be done by the Monona Public Library Foundation, Inc. (Learn more about the Foundation here!)

Health and Wellness from the library's web site:

We are gratified to be a recipient of a two year grant from the Madison Community Foundation. We will receive $25,000 in 2009 and 2010 to develop and expand on a community health and wellness collection to be shared across the County and the South Central Library System. Our selectors are busy identifying desirable titles and we want to offer a range of health and alternative health information in a variety of formats. We invite you to email or send a title for recommended purchase and we will be consulting with experts in the field of medical information to make sure we offer the very best in health information.

In addition to adding new titles in a variety of formats, we also plan to offer programs about how to get and stay healthy all year long.

See our page of reliable health links here.