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[Underground Railroad Program]{.smallcaps}

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| **Legislation:** Part H of Title     | 1985  | \$0   | 2000  | \$2   |
| VIII of the Higher Education         |       |       |       |       |
| Amendments of 1998 (20 U.S.C. 1153). |       |       |       |       |
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# **Program Description**

The Underground Railroad program provides discretionary grants to one or
more non-profit educational organizations that are established to
research, display, interpret, and collect artifacts relating to the
history of the Underground Railroad.

This program is authorized by the Higher Education Amendments of 1998
and was funded for the first time in FY 1999. Grants through the
Underground Railroad program are used to establish facilities that
house, display, and interpret artifacts relating to the history of the
Underground Railroad and to make the interpretive efforts available to
institutions of higher education. Organizations receiving funds must
demonstrate substantial private support through a public-private
partnership, create an endowment fund that provides for the ongoing
operations of the facility, and establish a network of satellite centers
throughout the United States to help disseminate information regarding
the Underground Railroad. Also, organizations must submit, for each
fiscal year for which the organization receives funding, a report to the
Secretary containing a description, plan, and evaluation of the programs
and activities supported by the funding and the audited financial
statement of the organization for the preceding year.

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Objective 1: Assist nonprofit educational associations in building
public-private partnerships and creating endowment funds to support
museum operations.

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| ** | **Actual  | **          | **Status:**      | **Sources:**     |
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|    |           |             |                  | update:* FY      |
|    |           |             | **Explanation:** | 2002.            |
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|    |           |             | 21, 2001, the    | *Data to be      |
|    |           |             | National         | reported:* FY    |
|    |           |             | Underground      | 2002.            |
|    |           |             | Railroad Freedom |                  |
|    |           |             | Center has       | **Validation     |
|    |           |             | raised           | Procedure:**     |
|    |           |             | \$33,717,762 in  | Data supplied by |
|    |           |             | private          | grantees. No     |
|    |           |             | donations and    | formal           |
|    |           |             | \$26,433,320 in  | verification     |
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|    |           |             | (government)     | applied.         |
|    |           |             | funds for a      |                  |
|    |           |             | total of         | **Limitations of |
|    |           |             | \$60,151,082.    | Data and Planned |
|    |           |             |                  | Improvements:**  |
|    |           |             |                  | None.            |
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