The SAA Foundation Board awards grants that meet the mission and goals of the Foundation and/or the strategic planning priorities of the Society of American Archivists. Applicants must make direct and substantive reference to the way(s) in which an award of funds will advance one or more of the strategic goals of the SAA Foundation and/or the Society of American Archivists.
They believe community organizations play an essential role in making their communities more digitally inclusive, and Mobile Beacon wants to empower you with the resources you need to make that happen. Mobile Beacon is offering the Wi-Fly Lending Launch Kit to help community anchor institutions create digital inclusion programs that provide the internet to the people who need it most.
This is a grant competition administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) for digitizing rare and unique content stewarded by collecting organizations in the US and Canada.
All requests must align with the Foundation’s mission: “Supporting adult and family literacy in the United States by fostering new and promoting existing adult literacy and educational programs.” The Wish You Well Foundation reviews donation requests with various funding needs. Most requests range from $200 to $10,000. Organizations are reminded to base their requested amount on the program’s unique needs for funding.
Illinois Heartland Library System is thrilled to announce the third round of the HR Source Membership Grant, an exciting program to help meet our public libraries' HR support needs.
The Brooks and Joan Fortune Foundation (BJFF) primarily provides funds to support education, art, and outreach programs and projects. In general, the foundation desires to support specific activities that result in a defined outcome rather than general operating funds or fundraising campaigns. Funding requests between $1,000 and $10,000 will receive greater consideration. While the foundation activities have historically been located in Indiana and Florida, requests from around the country will certainly be considered.
With support from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), the American Library Association Public Programs Office (ALA PPO) is seeking sites to host Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition that examines the motives, pressures, and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war, and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s. The exhibition will travel to 50 sites, and public and academic libraries are invited to apply.
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 and strengthen library and archival services for the American public.
The Community Collections Grants from the American Folklife Center (AFC) fund and support contemporary cultural field research and documentation within diverse communities. Available to Individuals and Organizations, the grants offer up to $50,000 each to support projects within their communities to produce ethnographic cultural documentation, such as of interviews with community members and audio-visual recordings of cultural activity, from the community perspective.
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.