In all, 60 challenge grants, worth $14.5 million, were given to arts organizations around the country yesterday.

Administrators are preparing to take on a challenge grant from the city.

The amount of the challenge grants has not been determined.

This week, the company announced three new corporate sponsors and a challenge grant of $400,000.

"It means the full completion of the challenge grant," he said.

His challenge grant is the largest given to a black cause, the fund said yesterday.

With the challenge grants, the state colleges created programs that have indeed brought them recognition in certain areas.

Both were challenge grants, which require the institutions to raise $2.3 million on their own.

To meet the conditions of a challenge grant, an equal amount must be raised by the organization accepting it.

Over the next two or three years, we have to get rid of the deficit and meet the challenge grant.