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Debt ends plans for assisted living facility ... Our View: Asphalt saga nears end of the road ... Man saves elderly woman from fire at Phoenix apartment ... Debt ends plans for assisted living facility ... Our View: Asphalt saga nears end of the road ... $500,000 Kresge grant challenges SOU By DAVID PRESZLER MailTribune.com By DAVID PRESZLER Posted Sep. 23, 1998 @ 2:00 am Updated Dec 16, 2010 at 5:21 PM By DAVID PRESZLER Posted Sep. 23, 1998 @ 2:00 am Updated Dec 16, 2010 at 5:21 PM » Social News Gift pushes school to build art center ASHLAND -- A $500,000 grant from a nationally known foundation has pushed Southern Oregon University's campaign to build a $11.4 million center for the visual arts to the $10 million mark. The grant from The Kresge Foundation of Troy, Mich., was announced Tuesday by SOU President Stephen Reno during his annual address to the school's staff and faculty. The Kresge gift is a challenge grant, meaning the school gets the money only if it raises the other $1.4 million still needed to finance the project by June 1. It is the strongest possible incentive for us to finish the campaign, Reno said. In short, we are ecstatic. The proposed center would be at Indiana Street and Siskiyou Boulevard. It would include a 19,500-square-foot art building to house administrative offices, a multimedia lecture auditorium, classrooms and a ceramics studio. The grant is the first the school has received from Kresge, a foundation known for supporting the arts that is funded by the estate of Sebastian Kresge. This is a very prestigious grant, said Lisa James, SOU's director of institutional advancement. It's very competitive. James said The Kresge Foundation studied the project carefully and required regular updates on the fund-raising effort before offering the grant. She said the foundation wants to be sure a project is likely to succeed before supporting it. We feel it's a great endorsement of our project and our university, she said. We are so pleased because a Kresge grant is a recognition that our campaign has reached a certain level approaching success, Reno said. James and Reno said previous contributions by other groups were critical to SOU getting the large grant. It was the major donors locally that really laid the foundation for the Kresge grant, Reno said. When Reno first went to Michigan in February to present the project, he said the only thing the foundation knew of the university or the project was based on the application the school submitted. But the foundation noticed the community's financial support of the project. It was clear they were really impressed by what the community has done for the university, he said. The university got the news about the Kresge grant Friday, but the official letter offering it didn't arrive until Tuesday. The first public announcement came during Reno's annual address to the staff and faculty; it was greeted with applause. Of the roughly $10 million raised for the project, $5.6 million will come from matching grants already authorized by the state Legislature. Several Rogue Valley corporations and families have made large contributions. The university has several grant applications pending, including requests to the Carpenter Foundation, the Meyer Memorial Trust of Portland and the Roseburg-based Ford Family Foundation. Though the Kresge grant has raised the university's hopes, James said raising the final $1.4 million won't be easy. Things are definitely looking very good, she said. (But) the last is always the hardest. 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