Grants
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Thursday, March 28th, 2013The Paul V. Sherlock Center on Disabilities at Rhode Island College is soliciting applications from organizations and businesses offering social, recreational, leisure and cultural activities in Rhode Island communities for “Access for All Abilities” (AAA) Mini-Grants. The Sherlock Center will award up to four grants in 2013. Organizations may apply for up to $2,500. The […]
LEAP Grants from Better World Books
Monday, March 4th, 2013Better World Books Discards and Donations program is offering LEAP Grants for Libraries. Better World Books is aware that the needs and opportunities of the communities libraries serve vary widely and there are countless worthy projects to support. This grant process is patterned off of the California State Library’s Pitch An Idea program and is […]
Grants for Preservation
Monday, January 7th, 2013Grants for Preservation of Historical Documents–Call for Proposals The Rhode Island Foundation announced that applications are now being accepted for the Joseph O’Neill Ott Fund In a bequest to The Rhode Island Foundation in 1994, Joseph O’Neill Ott, a leader in the preservation and antiquities community in the state, established a permanent endowment dedicated to […]
State Data Coordinator Conference- Day Two
Thursday, December 13th, 2012Day two at the conference was full of presentations and discussions about using national data. I’d like to share some information I learned about IMLS from Carlos Manjarrez, Director of Planning, Research, and Evaluation. As you may know, at one time libraries and museums were under the Department of Education. Now that it is a […]
Applications are open for Big Read grants
Wednesday, December 12th, 2012Apply for a Big Read grant today! Application submission deadline: February 5, 2013 The Big Read is accepting applications from non-profit organizations to develop community-wide reading programs between September 2013 and June 2014. The Big Read is a national program designed to revitalize the role of literature in American culture and to encourage reading for […]
StoryCorps @ your library
Tuesday, December 11th, 2012The ALA Public Programs Office, in partnership with StoryCorps, is accepting applications from public libraries and library systems interested in hosting “StoryCorps @ your library” programs. Funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to ALA, “StoryCorps @ your library” seeks to bring StoryCorps’ popular interview methods to libraries while […]
National Leadership Grants-Libraries
Wednesday, December 5th, 2012National Leadership Grants-Libraries : Call for Applications The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is accepting applications for National Leadership Grants-Libraries. Deadline: February 1, 2013 The guidelines for National Leadership Grants-Libraries (NLG-Libraries) have changed this year. Because the program is no longer aligned with National Leadership Grants for Museums, it no longer includes a […]
Help Teens Learn News Literacy Skills
Thursday, November 8th, 2012Public libraries and library consortia are invited to apply for more than $50,000 in training and support, in the News Know-how initiative that helps students, grades 10-12, learn skills that will help them distinguish fact from opinion , check news and information sources and distinguish between propaganda and news. Students work with librarians, journalists and […]
Carnegie-Whitney Awards
Tuesday, September 11th, 2012Carnegie-Whitney Awards up to $5,000 The American Library Association Publishing Committee provides a grant of up to $5,000 for the preparation of print or electronic reading lists, indexes or other guides to library resources that promote reading or the use of library resources at any type of library. Funded projects have ranged from popular, general-reader […]
$1 million for the Digital Public Library of America
Friday, August 31st, 2012On July 26, The National Endowment for the Humanities announced a $1 million award to support the incorporation and launch of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), a groundbreaking project that seeks to digitize and bring together the contents of our nation’s libraries and archives, and make them freely available to all online. Complete […]
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