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PABI reports a received challenge grant, membership growth, and school fundraising for the Community House in November 1998

Also PABI November 1998 Community House update · We’ve Come a Long Way Baby

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Date1998-11
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1998-11
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Beaver Island

Summary

PABI’s November 1998 update reported that the $150,000 Community House challenge grant had been received for three years. It also recorded 102 lifetime memberships, 170 annual memberships, 183 donors and pledgers, school fundraising, and pending environmental and construction milestones.

Evidence limits

This is an organizational progress report; the issue does not provide grant agreements, audited receipts, or final regulatory clearance.

Sources

  1. Reports the $150,000 challenge grant received for three years, 102 lifetime and 170 annual memberships, 183 donors and pledgers, a possible spring 1999 commercial-use clearance, named gifts, $1,284 in fifth–eighth-grade merchandise sales at press time, the October 29 play, and planned spring play and gala changes. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1998-11_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the PABI Community House update.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1998-11_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “PABI reports a received challenge grant, membership growth, and school fundraising for the Community House in November 1998”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-community-house-november-1998-update/, accessed [date], citing Preservation Association of Beaver Island, “Community House Update — We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby,” Beaver Beacon, November 1998. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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