Foundation Grant Boosts Mont Pleasant Library Branch Effort

The Mont Pleasant neighborhood will soon be home to a new educational and cultural center when a new library branch is opened in the Spring of 2019. The Schenectady Foundation has committed $150,000 in funding through a capacity-building grant to provide the needed technology and furnishings that will enable services in employment support; early literacy; and financial, digital, and health literacy.

The new Mont Pleasant Branch Library will be a much-needed resource to the neighborhood, and a vital element of the revitalization of the Crane Street corridor that has been characterized by blighted and neglected structures.

The project was initiated in response to SCPL outreach that indicated need in this distressed neighborhood for a safer, larger, and more adequately designed public library branch to serve the needs of the community. Read More.