Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation

The Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation will develop recruitment programs that target high school and college students who work or volunteer at the Free Library. A three-tiered approach to recruitment will reach a total of 370 candidates for careers in librarianship (300 high school students, 45 library interns, and 25 paraprofessional library staff members) through a combination of tuition assistance, educational leave time, internships, mentoring and training, while providing for more traditionally underrepresented populations in the professional library field. Match: $1,024,749