Hardware Grants

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has developed a new hardware grant program for public libraries called the Opportunity Online Hardware Grant.  Gates has chosen the State Library to administer the grants which require a 25% match the first year and a 50% match the second year.  The grants are designed to:

• Improve public access to computers and the Internet by providing hardware upgrades to libraries 
• Increase the percentage of libraries regularly upgrading their computers
• Motivate local governments to commit local funding to library computer services

The list of eligible libraries participating in the grant is below. 

An information session about the grant for eligible libraries was held on November 16, 2007.  To request a DVD copy of the program, e-mail Rinda Kramme and ask for DVD44