Broadband Funding.
The Recovery Act appropriated $7.2 billion and directed the
Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and The
Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications Information
Administration (NTIA) to expand broadband access to unserved and
underserved communities across the U.S., increase jobs, spur investments
in technology and infrastructure, and provide long-term economic
benefits.
The result is the RUS Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP) and the NTIA
Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP).
BIP will make loans and grants for broadband infrastructure projects in
rural areas. BTOP will provide grants to fund broadband infrastructure,
public computer centers and sustainable broadband adoption projects.
Details |
USDA Rural
Utilities Service / NTIA |
Various |
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| NASA is offering free
space artifacts to museums attended by the public and free
libraries serving all residents of a community, district, state, or
region. Details |
NASA |
No deadline |
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Dollar General is
offering up to $5,000 to assist school libraries or
media centers.
Details |
Dollar General |
No deadline |
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Office Depot's product
donation program is managed by Gifts In Kind International, the
world's leading charity in product philanthropy. Each of Office Depot's
retail stores, distribution centers and warehouses is matched to a
nonprofit organization that helps children. On a regular basis, each
Office Depot location makes a donation of products (supplies, furniture,
business machines, etc.) to its matched charity.
Our ongoing Product Donation Program enables Office Depot to place its
donated products in the hands of thousands of children's charities
across the nation.
Details |
Office Depot /
Gifts in Kind |
No deadline |
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| Barnes & Noble
considers local and national support requests from non-profit
organizations that focus on literacy, the arts or education (pre-K
through
12). They also consider sponsorship opportunities where we can partner
with organizations that focus their core businesses on higher learning,
literacy and the arts.
Details |
Barnes & Noble |
No deadline |
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| The Distribution to
Underserved Communities Library Program (DUC) distributes books
on contemporary art and culture free of charge to rural and inner-city
libraries, schools and alternative reading centers nationwide.
Details |
Distribution to
Underserved Communities |
No deadline |
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| RGK
Foundation awards a wide variety of grants that fulfill their
mission in the following areas: Education, Community, and
Medicine/Health. Grants of up to $25,000 are available to nonprofit
organizations.
Details |
RGK Foundation |
No deadline |
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| First Book is
a nonprofit organization that annually provides millions of books to
schools and programs serving children from low-income families. Register
today to connect your program or school to First Book's resources.
Details |
First Book |
No deadline |
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| The National Library of
Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the solicitation of
quotations from organizations and libraries to design and conduct
projects that will improve access to HIV/AIDS related health information
for patients, the affected community, and their caregivers. Standard
Awards are offered for up to $60,000; Express Awards are offered for up
to $10,000.
Details |
The National Library of Medicine |
April 19 |
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| The Improving Literacy
through School Libraries (LSL) program helps LEAs improve
reading achievement by providing students with increased access to
up-to-date school library materials; well-equipped, technologically
advanced school library media centers; and professionally certified
school library media specialists.
Details |
US Dept of
Education |
April 20 |
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| The Lawrence Foundation
gives grants to environmental, educational, and human services programs.
Eligible organizations include public schools, libraries, and nonprofits
that qualify for public charity status under section 501(c)(3) of the
Internal Revenue Code.
Details |
Lawrence
Foundation |
April 30 and October 31 |
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| Reading is essential to a
child's learning process. That's why Target awards grants to schools,
libraries and nonprofit organizations to support programs such as
after-school reading events and weekend book clubs. Together we're
fostering a love of reading and encouraging children, preschool through
third grade, to read together with their families.
Details |
Target |
April 30 |
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| 2010 Native American
Library Services Enhancement Grants Program. Grants of up to
$150,000 will be awarded to Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages
working to improve existing library services or implement new services,
particularly those relating to the goals of the Library Services and
Technology Act.
Details |
Institute of
Museum and Library Services |
05/3/2010 |
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Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions help
small and mid-sized institutions, such as libraries, museums, historical
societies, archival repositories, town and county records offices, and colleges
and universities, improve their ability to preserve and care for their
humanities collections. Awards of up to $6000 support preservation related
collection assessments, consultations, training and workshops, and institutional
and collaborative disaster and emergency planning.
Details |
National Endowment for the Humanities |
May 18, 2010 |
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Back to School Literacy Grant. Books and small libraries
donated to nonprofits that work with kids in under-served areas.
Details |
Lisa Libraries Foundation |
May 21, 2010 |
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The Libri Foundation works with the library's Friends of the
Library or other local organizations because we believe in community involvement
and want to encourage and reward local support of libraries. The Friends, or
other local sponsors, can contribute from $50 to $350 which the Foundation
matches on a 2-to-1 ratio. Thus, a library can receive up to $1,050 worth of
new, quality, hardcover children's books through the Foundation's BOOKS FOR
CHILDREN program. Details |
Libri Foundation |
July 15, December 15 |
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| 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 |
5/30/2010 and 9/30/2010 |
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| The Walmart Foundation
Giving Program awards grants at the state, regional and
national levels for programs that give individuals access to a better
life. The program provides grants of $25,000 and up in the following
categories: Education grants support programs that address the
educational needs of underserved young people, ages 12-30. Job Skills
Training grants promote professional training, counseling, and support
services to help people improve their work-related skills. Health grants
strive to improve access to healthcare and promote healthy lifestyles.
Environmental Sustainability grants support programs that are designed
to help people become more sustainable as well as programs that enhance
the environment.
Details |
Walmart Foundation |
08/20/2010 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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