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The
California Cultural and Historical Endowment (CCHE),
created by legislation sponsored by Assembly
Member Marco Firebaugh and Senator John Burton in
2002 (AB716), is a new state agency currently
housed at the California State Library. CCHE
provides funds to projects of cultural and
historical significance in California.
One
of CCHE’s goals is to fund projects that
preserve, document, interpret, or enhance
understanding of threads of California’s story
that are absent or underrepresented in existing
historical parks, monuments, museums, and other
facilities.
CCHE
makes funding available in the form of capital
assets grants. Its funding source is from the
California Clean Water, Clean Air, Safe
Neighborhood Parks, and Coastal Projection Fund,
commonly known as Proposition 40 funds.
Approximately $122 million will be available for
California projects.
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is currently reviewing projects of special
significance to public libraries. They are: |
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Installation
and mounting of a mural at the new Santa
Monica Public Library. The 2,000-square-foot
mural created by Stanton Macdonald-Wright as
a Public Works of Art Project in the mid-1930’s depicts the evolution of the
creative arts and sciences as well as
Macdonald-Wright’s passion for Asian
culture and the motion picture industry, and
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Creation
of a 2,000-square-foot California
Agricultural Worker’s History Center that
will be housed in the new Watsonville City
Library to preserve the history, lives, and
contributions of agricultural workers in
Pajaro Valley and throughout California. |
During
its first cycle of funding, CCHE received grant
application requests from $25,000-$5 million. As a
result of that cycle, the CCHE Board has reserved
33 projects for further consideration, pending
staff review and CEQA compliance.
The
CCHE Board has also moved to sponsor three
additional cycles of funding to be held over the
next three years. Cycle two, with a budget allocation
of $15 million, will be launched in mid-2005.
Cycles three and four, with funding allocations of
$36 million, have anticipated start dates of
2006-2007.
For
further information on CCHE, please feel free to
visit their website at http://www.library.ca.gov/cche
or call (916) 651-8223.
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