*Winning Library Grants*
March 1 - 31, 2010 (online asynchronous) $250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200)
PDPs: 15

In these difficult economic times, grant research and proposal writing skills are more important than ever for librarians. Grants may be the only way you can address changing needs in your community while your library budget is flat or shrinking. This online course will introduce you to the grant process from beginning to end with an emphasis on planning successful grant projects, funding sources for libraries, researching grant opportunities, preparing winning proposals, and tips,
techniques and proven success stories from all types of libraries. Course modules are designed to follow the instructors' Grant Process Cycle model, which illustrates how grant work is ongoing and can be easily integrated into your jobs as librarians.

Instructors: Stephanie Gerding and Pam MacKellar are experienced on both sides of the grant process, having been grant reviewers, proposal writers, and grant project administrators. Stephanie and Pam co-authored the successful book, Grants for Libraries: A How-To-Do-It Manual for
Librarians, and they write the Library Grants Blog, which lists grant announcements for libraries in one easy-to-access location. They have presented workshops on grants for libraries nationwide, and they are currently working on a new book, Winning Grants: A Multimedia How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians, forthcoming in 2010.

For more information about our online workshops see http://bit.ly/9v17e4

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Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, announced the goal to provide $100 million of USDA’s Community Facilities ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) funds for public libraries. The VT/NH jurisdiction will have at least $2.2 Million in funding to offer to libraries for capital projects such as buildings and equipment. There are many excellent outcomes when we support rural libraries:

• Rural libraries not only play a vital role in educating their patrons, they also enhance the economic vitality of a rural community.
• Rural business owners receive an array of information resources at the public library. The educational opportunities afforded create more productive employees for rural businesses.
• The construction or renovation projects for libraries create and save jobs in the construction and library service fields.
• A new or renovated library facility in a rural community can be a catalyst for renewing that community’s downtown area.
• Public libraries are culturally and technologically critical to the rural communities they serve.  Public libraries offer a host of state of the art communication services to rural residents that are often otherwise unavailable in their community.
• Libraries are often a rural community’s cultural center; offering public programming to adults and children.
• Public libraries are important to bridging the digital divide and improving the quality of life in rural America.

Key program points are:

• Community served must be under 20,000 in population
• Contact your local RD office regarding grant eligible service areas. Please visit http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/vt/vtstaff.htm to find an office near you in VT or NH.
• Note: Grants range from 0-75% and require matching funds. Please visit http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/vt/vtnhcfgranteligibilty.htm to see if your community is eligible for grant assistance. Note: Loan and Loan guarantees are available to all communities of 20,000 or less in population.
• Both Public and Non-Profit Libraries who are open to the public may qualify.

Download the complete flyer here. If you tweet about this, please include @nhlibrarians

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Libraries across the United States are invited to apply for the $3,000 Scholastic Library Publishing National Library Week Grant, which will be awarded to a single library for the best public awareness campaign incorporating the 2010 National Library Week theme, “Communities thrive @ your library®.”
The grant is sponsored by Scholastic Library Publishing, a division of Scholastic, the global children’s publishing, education and media company, and is administered by the Public Awareness Committee of the American Library Association (ALA). This year’s application deadline is October 16, 2009.  National Library Week is April 11-17, 2010.

Learn more at http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/pio/natlibraryweek/nlwgrant.cfm.

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A slightly revised NHLA Continuing Education Committee Mini-Money Grant application form has been uploaded to the NHLA website. You can download it from the Scholarships and Grants page, http://www.nhlibrarians.org/scholarshipsgrants.html. Direct questions to Barbara Prince.

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Small rural public libraries can take advantage of two grant opportunities for new children's books.  Both of these grants require some matching funds and both allow libraries to choose titles from a list of outstanding books for children.  If your library is in a town of fewer than 10,000 residents, check out the Libri Foundation for a children's book grant.  Visit their website at www.librifoundation.org.  Libraries in communities with fewer than 5,000 residents can apply for grants at the Children's Literacy Foundation, which awards 12 grants a year to NH public libraries.  Visit www.clifonline.org for more information.

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Did you know that NHLA members can apply for grants of up to $200 to be used for a broad range of continuing education opportunities? Thanks to "Mini-Money Grants" made available from the Adam & Jane MacDonald Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, grant recipients can use the money for credit or non-credit courses, workshops and seminars, State Library Education modules, NELINET classes, online education classes and classes offered by local educational institutions.  (The funds may not be used for conference attendance.) Download the grant application form here, and for more information contact Andrea Thorpe at athorpe@newport.lib.nh.us 

If you are looking for financial assistance to be used for graduate study, apply for a Winchell Loan and/or a Norris scholarship. To learn more about these opportunities,  visit the NHLA Graduate Study web page.

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The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation invites you to attend one of their 2007 grant information sessions to learn about their Community Impact Grant Program and the Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund Grant Program (PDF file). A list of upcoming information sessions is available here.

Not familiar with the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation? Well, it was established in 1962, and it now is one of the country's largest community foundations with:

• A collection of more than 1,400 funds established by donors for individualized charitable purposes
  
• Assets of $344 million
  
• Program initiatives and scholarship funds that awarded more than $25 million in grants in 2005

So don't waste any time. Register to attend a grant information session and start brainstorming ideas for potential grant proposals.

And don't forget to subscribe to this blog! 

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