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July 16, 2021

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• Free Library & Education Grants Search
• Grants

Free Library & Education Grants Search

Demco provides free access to their grants database, which lists grants that are currently available. The grants database allows you to search for early literacy, library, STEM and technology grants. You're required to enter your work email address, state, first and last name, and the name of your organization to conduct a search.

Grants

The following information is taken directly from websites of organizations offering grants and shared here for your convenience.

Alaska State Council on the Arts

Community Arts Development Grants

Community Arts Development Grants help small nonprofit Alaskan organizations to develop art programs in underserved areas of the state or underserved disciplines. Grants fund projects such as exhibits, concerts, dance performances and festivals, workshops, readings, and theater productions.

Grants are also available to assist developing organizations in the area of arts administration such as board development, accounting systems, and budget development. Priority will be given to organizations that operate on a volunteer basis with no paid staff.

Grant awards will not exceed $5000.

Quarterly Grant Deadlines: June 1, September 1, December 1, March 1

For complete information and application, visit the online grant system. For technical assistance, contact Andrea Noble at andrea.noble@alaska.gov.

Workshop Grants

Workshop Grants support unique, arts-related activities of limited duration that offer Alaskans the opportunity to participate in an arts activity not regularly available in their community. All areas of the visual, performing, traditional, craft, media, and literary arts, as well as arts administration, are eligible disciplines for this grant category.

Quarterly Grant Deadlines: June 1, September 1, December 1, March 1

For complete information and application, visit the online grant system. For technical assistance, contact Andrea Noble at (907) 269-6605 or andrea.noble@alaska.gov.

Harper Arts Touring Fund

The Harper Arts Touring Fund grant is designed to encourage tours of Alaska’s arts presentations and exhibitions; build the capacity of organizations in small communities to present and exhibit; and to build audiences for cultural events and exhibitions.

The Fund provides grants to subsidize travel and freight expenses associated with the presentation of touring performances, or visual arts and material culture exhibitions in communities without regular access to these types of programs. Through a partnership with the Alaska State Council on the Arts, training and technical assistance are provided to help communities strengthen their ability to successfully present performing arts activities and visual arts and material culture exhibitions.

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis; deadlines are rolling, at least 90 days prior to the planned activity.

Please carefully read through the Harper Arts Touring Fund Grant Guidelines before beginning an application. Contact Laura Forbes at (907) 269-6682 or laura.forbes@alaska.gov for technical assistance.

First National Bank Alaska

First National Bank of Alaska is committed to Alaska’s economic and cultural growth. Branch managers have authority to make contributions to local community organizations and events. Decisions on large corporate level contributions are made by First National’s Donations Committee which meets each month and reviews all of the requests for donations.

Requests will be considered from Alaska based non-profit organizations in four general categories:

• Community or public service
• Health and education
• Arts and humanities
• Youth and senior citizens

Rasmuson Foundation

2022 Sabbatical Award

Alaska-based nonprofit and tribal executives interested in a unique opportunity for time away from the office have until Sept. 15 to apply for a Rasmuson Foundation 2022 sabbatical award.

Executives from tribes and Alaska-serving nonprofit 501(c) (3) organizations are eligible to apply. Applicants must be Alaska residents with at least five years in the sector and at least three years in the position of CEO, president, executive director, or tribal administrator.

The application requires a written plan for how the organization will be managed in the leader’s absence and a letter from the organization’s board endorsing the decision to apply for a sabbatical.

Deadline: September 15, 2021.

For more information, email sabbatical@rasmuson.org or call (907) 297-2700 or toll free in Alaska, (877) 366-2700.

American Library Association

Libraries Transforming Communities: Focus on Small and Rural Libraries Grant

The American Library Association (ALA) invites libraries in small and rural communities to apply for the Libraries Transforming Communities: Focus on Small and Rural Libraries (LCT) grant.

The goal of these grants is to teach facilitation skills to library workers through the LTC: Facilitation Skills for Small and Rural Libraries asynchronous six-part e-course and facilitation guide that will empower them to lead a community conversation and to provide flexible funding to support libraries’ community engagement efforts.

Up to 100 U.S. libraries in small and rural communities will receive $3,000, online professional development, and resources to tackle issues ranging from media literacy to COVID-19 safety to unemployment. Applicants must have a membership with either the American Library Association OR the Association for Rural & Small Libraries.

This opportunity is open to all types of libraries serving small and/or rural communities in the U.S. and U.S. territories. The Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) defines libraries serving small communities as those with a legal service area population of 25,000 or less and a rural community as one that is at least five miles from an urbanized area.

Libraries that previously were awarded LTC: Focus on Small and Rural Libraries grants are eligible to apply for additional funding to expand their previously awarded projects.

Deadline: September 16, 2021

NASA@ My Library

NASA@ My Library is a STEM education initiative created to increase and enhance STEAM learning opportunities for library patrons throughout the nation, including geographic areas and populations currently underrepresented in STEAM education. 

Sixty U.S. public libraries will be selected through a competitive application process to become NASA@ My Library Partners. They will receive training and resources to implement NASA events and programming, access to a university Subject Matter Expert (SME) to support patron engagement, and a $1,600 programming stipend to purchase materials for NASA STEAM activities and/or support presentations by local NASA-funded SMEs.

NASA@ My Library is offered by the National Center for Interactive Learning (NCIL) at the Space Science Institute (SSI) in partnership with the American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs Office, Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) and Education Development Center (EDC).

Deadline: July 21, 2021

Great Books Giveaway

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of ALA, offers a Great Books Giveaway to libraries in need. Each year, the YALSA office receives approximately 3,000 newly published books, videos, CD's and audiocassettes, materials that have been targeted primarily towards young adults.

Publishers and producers submit copies for selection committees to review and nominate. After the ALA Midwinter Meeting (when committees select their annual lists), these materials need to be removed from the YALSA office to make room for the next year's publications.

The YALSA Board of Directors believes many libraries that serve young adults would benefit by receiving this collection of materials. YALSA and the cooperating publishers are therefore offering one year's worth of review materials as a contribution to up to three libraries in need through this application process. Applicants must be personal or organizational members of YALSA.

Deadline: December 1, 2021

Institute of Museum and Library Services

The Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program

The Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (LB21) supports the development of a diverse workforce of librarians and archivists in order to meet the information needs of their communities by enhancing the training and professional development of library and archives professionals; developing faculty and information leaders; and recruiting, educating, and retaining the next generation of library and archives professionals.

The goals for this program are to generate projects of broad impact that:

• Recruit, train, develop, and retain a diverse workforce of library and archives professionals.
• Develop faculty, library, and archives leaders by increasing the institutional capacity of libraries, archives, and of graduate programs related to library and information science.
• Enhance the training and professional development of the library and archival workforce to meet the needs of their communities.

The application process for the LB21 program has two phases. For Phase I, all applicants must submit preliminary proposals by the September 24, 2021 deadline. For Phase II, selected applicants will be invited to submit full proposals. Only Invited Full Proposals will be considered for funding. Invited Full Proposals will be due March 25, 2022.

The National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program

The National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program (NLG-L) supports projects that address critical needs of the library and archives fields and have the potential to advance practice in these professions to strengthen library and archival services for the American public. Successful proposals will generate results such as new models, new tools, research findings, services, practices, and/or alliances that can be widely used, adapted, scaled, or replicated to extend and leverage the benefits of federal investment.

The goals for this program are to generate projects of national impact that:

• Build the workforce and institutional capacity for managing the national information infrastructure and serving the information and education needs of the public.
• Build the capacity of libraries and archives to lead and contribute to efforts that improve community well-being and strengthen civic engagement.
• Improve the ability of libraries and archives to provide broad access to and use of information and collections with emphasis on collaboration to avoid duplication and maximize reach.
• Strengthen the ability of libraries to provide services to affected communities in the event of an emergency or disaster.
• Strengthen the ability of libraries, archives, and museums to work collaboratively for the benefit of the communities they serve.

Throughout its work, IMLS places importance on diversity, equity, and inclusion. This may be reflected in an IMLS-funded project in a wide range of ways, including efforts to serve individuals of diverse geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds; individuals with disabilities; individuals with limited functional literacy or information skills; individuals having difficulty using a library or museum; and underserved urban and rural communities, including children from families with incomes below the poverty line.

Application Process: The application process for the NLG-L program consists of two phases. For Phase I, all applicants must submit preliminary proposals by the September 24, 2021 deadline. For Phase II, selected applicants will be invited to submit full proposals. Only Invited Full Proposals will be considered for funding. Invited Full Proposals will be due March 25, 2022.

National Endowment for the Humanities

Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections Grant

The Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections grant helps cultural institutions meet the complex challenge of preserving large and diverse holdings of humanities materials for future generations by supporting sustainable conservation measures that mitigate deterioration, prolong the useful life of collections, and support institutional resilience: the ability to anticipate and respond to disasters resulting from natural or human activity.

Deadline: January 13, 2022

Funding Range: Planning up to $50,000

Implementation: up to $350,000

For complete information visit the online application.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation provides grants to organizations in all 50 states of the U.S., as well as to sovereign tribes.

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation recognizes that children live in families and families live in communities. Therefore, their grants are focused in three areas – Thriving Children, Working Families and Equitable Communities – are dynamic and always interconnected. 

Deadline: Grants are accepted on an ongoing basis.

Sisters in Crime

We Love Libraries Grants

Sisters in Crime will award six We Love Libraries grants of $500 each. The application process involves completing a short online form and uploading a photo of library staff with three or more books in your collection by three Sisters in Crimes members. You need to make sure the author’s names and book titles are legible in the photo.