ALA has announced the “Libraries and Sustainability” Virtual Book Club, a series of three virtual, interactive conversations about incorporating sustainability into librarianship to be held in November and December 2022: programminglibrarian.org/articles/… Library workers who would like to be considered for one of the 100 available spots should apply online by August 19. Participation is free but limited […]
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CE Grant Opportunity – Libraries and Sustainability Virtual Book Club
Posted on 03 August 2022.
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Grant Opportunity – The Yiddish Book Center’s “Stories of Exile” Reading Groups for Public Libraries
Posted on 07 July 2022.
The Yiddish Book Center’s “Stories of Exile” Reading Groups for Public Libraries is a reading and discussion program to engage teens and adults in thinking about experiences of displacement, migration, and diaspora. Using Yiddish literature as a portal, the program will feature works in translation that explore narratives which grapple with questions of homelands, journeys, […]
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Grant Opportunity – T-Mobile Hometown Grants Program for Small and Rural Communities
Posted on 09 June 2022.
The T-Mobile Hometown Grants Program intends to help build stronger, more prosperous small towns and rural communities throughout the United States. Up to 100 towns each year for the next five years will receive community improvement grants of up to $50,000 for projects to build, rebuild, or refreshcommunity spaces that help foster local connections. The focus […]
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Nominate Your Library for a Makeover!
Posted on 02 June 2022.
Scribner, the publisher of Anthony Doerr’s glorious New York Times bestseller Cloud Cuckoo Land, and his Pulitzer Prize winner All the Light We Cannot See, is pleased to work together with the Heart of America Foundation on its “Cloud Cuckoo Land Library Makeover Campaign,” a contest that will award a makeover to an under-resourced public […]
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Grant Opportunity – Ezra Jack Keats Foundation Mini-Grants
Posted on 01 June 2022.
The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation offers 70 minigrants of up to $500 to public schools and public libraries for projects that foster creative expression, working together and interaction with a diverse community. Great mini-grant programs are creative, collaborative, have the potential to become an annual/recurring event, and benefit children and their communities. The application is […]
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