OGDENSBURG — Northern New York Community Foundation recently awarded a $10,000 challenge grant to help build the Ogdensburg Public Library’s permanent endowment.

The library’s campaign, “Building Partnerships and Investing in Our Future,” is now under way to strengthen this resource at the Community Foundation. All gifts to the campaign will be matched, dollar-for-dollar, up to $10,000.

“This is a wonderful opportunity for library benefactors to double the impact of their donations to our fund,” Library Executive Director Penny Kerfien said. “Our established endowment gives donors an opportunity to share in the library’s vision and lets a donor see how quickly pooled gifts can grow.”

Volunteers from the library’s Board of Trustees and Friends of the Ogdensburg Public Library will reach out to the community in coming months to encourage support for this matching opportunity.

A successful endowment campaign will help the library meet its vision to connect people with library programs and services, a press release from the Ogdensburg Public Library said. As a permanent fund, the endowment will also help the library complete upgrades and much-needed improvements to its building infrastructure into the future.

Gifts to the library’s endowment campaign may be made to the Northern New York Community Foundation, ATTN: Ogdensburg Public Library Endowment Fund, 131 Washington St., Watertown, NY 13601, or through secure online giving at nnycf.org/giving.