Brown County Library to receive donation from Carnegie foundation

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — The Brown County Library is receiving $10,000 from a foundation established by Andrew Carnegie.

The donation from the Carnegie Corporation of New York is part of Carnegie Libraries 250, an initiative celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

“Opportunities for success and prosperity expand when people have access to information and ideas. Andrew Carnegie knew this because of experiences in his own life. He funded libraries to give others what he had received himself — access to ideas and information,” Brown County Library executive director Sarah Sugden said in a news release…

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