The Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries provides funds to our Nation’s neediest schools so that they can extend, update, and diversify the book and print collections in their libraries with the goal of encouraging students to develop a love of reading and learning.
In small and rural communities, the library is often positioned as a central hub that works to meet the various needs of all community members. Libraries Transforming Communities (LTC): Accessible Small and Rural Communities aims to provide community engagement and accessibility resources to small and rural libraries to help them better serve people with disabilities.
Up to 300 libraries will be awarded in this application period, part of ALA’s longtime community engagement initiative.
The Thriving Communities Grant Program is designed to promote sustainability initiatives, workforce development programs, and community resiliency efforts across Norfolk Southern’s 22-state network.
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.
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 Society of Aviation & Flight Educators, Inc.(SAFE) is offering four $250.00 grants designed to encourage K-12 classroom teachers to incorporate aviation-themed lessons into their normal curriculum. Aviation and aerospace topics are the perfect adjunct for teaching science, math, history, and even art. Aviation and aerospace are topics that generate enthusiasm with all types of learners and all ages of students.
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.
Optional Draft Deadline: July 18, 2023
Final Deadline: Aug. 1, 2023
The Chisholm Foundation welcomes grant applications from anywhere in the United States that are compatible with its mission to support the arts, education, and religion.
The Lois Lenski Covey Foundation awards grants to organizations that operate a lending bookmobile that travels into neighborhoods populated by underserved youth.