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Digital Equity Capacity Kickstarter Grant Program

The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (the “Department” or “DCEO”) is issuing a Notice of Funding Opportunity (“NOFO”) to support expansion of broadband access, adoption, and use initiatives among Illinois broadband and digital equity stakeholders, such as communities and community-based organizations. Through this NOFO, the Department will fund proposals that promote specific digital equity outcomes – such as local outreach and engagement, added digital navigator capacity, public access expansion, or feasibility study. 

Entrepreneurship & Libraries Conference Pitch Competition

Is your library a player in economic development? If not yet, could it be? Do you have an idea on how your library could contribute to local job creation, entrepreneurship, and nonprofits — but you could use a little funding to get started? Then please consider submitting to the third annual pitch competition of the Entrepreneurship & Libraries Conference (ELC). The focus of the pitching is how a library can support local economic development, job hunters, workforce development, entrepreneurs, nonprofits, and/or small businesses.

ALA Great Stories Club: Imagining Tomorrow, Building Inclusive Futures

The ALA Great Stories Club is a thematic reading and discussion program that engages teens who are facing difficult challenges through literature-based library outreach programs. The “Imagining Tomorrow: Building Inclusive Futures” series will feature science fiction books that explore questions of equity, identity, and alternate futures. Implementation of the series is supported by a grant from a private donor.

ALA – Peggy Barber Tribute Grant

The Peggy Barber Tribute Grant is an annual grant that recognizes, promotes, and supports meaningful programs in libraries that have limited and/or no access to budgetary support for programming. This grant aims to help ease budget challenges by annually awarding three libraries $2,500 to support a proposed program, program series, or programming effort.

ALA – Game On! Grant

The Games and Gaming Round Table of the American Library Association is proud to sponsor its annual grant program to enable libraries to develop gaming programs or collections for their public. Through the Game On! grant, $500.00 will be available to be awarded either as one grant of $500 or two of $250 each to assist a library (or libraries) in developing gaming programs or collections for their communities.