Grants & Funding

Program Sponsor Closing Date

National Medal for Museum and Library Service. The National Medal honors outstanding institutions that make significant and exceptional contributions to their communities. Selected institutions demonstrate extraordinary and innovative approaches to public service, exceeding the expected levels of community outreach, and may also include libraries and museums advancing global cultural understanding across borders. Details Institute of Museum and Library Services 2/16/2010

The Dollar General Literacy Foundation Family Literacy Grants provide funding to family literacy service providers. The Foundation uses the federal government's definition of family literacy when reviewing grant applications. Details Dollar General 2/25/2010

Build-A-Bear Workshop Bear Hugs Foundation. The Build-A-Bear Workshop Bear Hugs Foundation provides literacy and education grants to support children in summer reading programs, early childhood education programs, and special needs literacy programs. Details Build-a-Bear Workshop 2/28/2010, 5/30/2010 and 9/30/2010

Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants By awarding relatively small grants to support the planning stages, NEH aims to encourage the development of innovative projects that promise to benefit the humanities. Proposals should be for the planning or initial stages of digital initiatives in any area of the humanities. Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants may involve research that brings new approaches or documents best practices in the study of the digital humanities; planning and developing prototypes of new digital tools for preserving, analyzing, and making accessible digital resources, including libraries' and museums' digital assets; scholarship that examines the philosophical implications and impact of the use of emerging technologies; innovative uses of technology for public programming and education utilizing both traditional and new media; and new digital modes of publication that facilitate the dissemination of humanities scholarship in advanced academic as well as informal or formal educational settings at all academic levels. Innovation is a hallmark of this grant category. Details The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) 3/23/2010

Smart Growth: Action Grants. Education and coalition building are hallmarks of successful smart growth efforts. The grants can be used to further activities to develop a community vision through a community planning workshop or joining a coalition that is working toward a similar community vision. Additionally, starting in 2009, grant funds may be used to support green building activities, such as working with state or local officials to develop green building/energy efficiency policies for your community. Details National Association of Realtors 4/3/2010 and
10/2/2010

Ezra Jack Keats Minigrant Program for Public Schools and Public Libraries offers minigrants for programs that encourage literacy and creativity in children. Details Ezra Jack Keats Foundation 9/15/2010

Cultural Diversity Grant. The goals of the grant program are to support the creation and dissemination of resources that will assist library administrators and managers in developing a vision and commitment to diversity, and in fostering and sustaining diversity throughout their institutions; to increase the representation and advancement of people of color in the field of library administration and management and to establish productive partnerships between LAMA and major national organizations representing minority interests; to strengthen the diversity of LAMA membership, committees, and officers and integrate diversity into all aspects of the Association's work. Details ALA/LLAMA 12/1/2010

H.W. Wilson Library Staff Development Grant. An annual award consisting of $3,500 and a 24k gold-framed citation given to a library organization whose application demonstrates greatest merit for a program of staff development designed to further the goals and objectives of the library organization. Details ALA/H.W. Wilson 12/1/2010