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MacPhail Center for Music, based in Minneapolis, announced Tuesday that it will receive a $600,000 grant from the Kresge Foundation if it can raise $600,000 on its own by April 2008. The challenge grant comes as MacPhail completes its new headquarters next to the former Milwaukee Road Depot and prepares to celebrate its centennial later this year. The Kresge money would put the nonprofit MacPhail "very close" to its capital fundraising goal of $25 million, said David O'Fallon, the center's president. The grant also is based on MacPhail's plan to maintain higher levels of giving when the fundraising drive ends. The center, based at 12th Street and LaSalle Avenue since the 1920s, offers music lessons and programs including at schools and several suburban locations. Its new building received legislative help last year and is expected to open late this year. MacPhail began as an entrepreneurial music school in 1907. It became part of the University of Minnesota in 1966 but emerged as an independent nonprofit organization in 1994 . The Kresge Foundation, based in Troy, Mich., is headed by Rip Rapson, former president of the Minnesota-based McKnight Foundation and a former deputy mayor of Minneapolis. Kresge has assets of $3 billion. In 2005 it awarded 216 grants totaling $131.8 million. DAN WASCOE
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