Albany — Albany’s Underground Railroad Education Center is the latest local space for history and education to receive notice that their federal Institute of Museum and Library Services grant is being rescinded.
The grant, which totaled $66,000 over two years, was slated for an after-school program for Albany youth in the Spring and Fall.
“It’s very competitive and it’s not simple to just get a grant,” Underground Railroad Education Center Paul Stewart says. “In fact, we applied for an IMLS grant quite some time ago for something that was fairly competitive, we did not receive it. So we have tried to get other volunteers who have other levels of expertise to work with us in terms of crafting a grant. So we put a grant together around this idea of a museum studies teen program, which was a good next step for what we were doing in terms of working with young people, and also in terms of bringing people forward into the museum field.”
