Joe Biden to begin fundraising to build presidential library in Delaware | Joe Biden

Former American president Joe Biden decided to build his presidential library in Delaware and operated a group of former aid, friends and political allies to start the launch of fundraising and find a site for the museum and the archives.

The Joe and Jill Biden Foundation last week approved a governance committee for 13 people who is responsible for directing the project. The Board of Directors includes former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the longtime advisor Steve Ricchetti, the collection of prolific democratic funds Rufus Gifford and other people with deep ties with the president and his wife of a time.

The Biden library team has the intimidating task of raising funds for the project inherited from the 46th president at a time when its party has fragmented on the path to follow and many major democratic donors have ceased to write checks.

It also remains to be seen whether the companies and institutional donors who have historically made a donation to presidential library projects – whatever the party of the former president – will hesitate more to contribute, with Donald Trump to the White House for a second term, malignant Biden on a daily basis and savings groups.

“There are certainly people – people who may not have thought of these kinds of problems that are starting to think about it,” Gifford, who was appointed president of the library council, told the Associated Press. “That being said … We are not going to create a budget, we are not going to set a goal that we do not believe that we can strike.”

The construction cost of the George HW Bush library was around $ 43 million when it opened in 1997. The cost of Bill Clinton approximately $ 165 million. George W Bush’s team has achieved its objective of collecting funds of $ 500 million before the library dedicated.

The Obama Foundation set a fundraising objective of $ 1.6 billion for construction, the maintenance of world programming and the seeding of an endowment for the Chicago presidential center which is expected to open its doors next year.

The Biden library team is still in the first stages of planning.

Construction and support for the programming of libraries are paid with private funds given to non -profit organizations established by former presidents.