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2018 Teen Summer Intern Program

From the Dollar General website:

This grant is designed to encourage libraries to faciliate the use of teen interns to assist with summer learning programs.  YALSA will provide $1,000 to support a library's teen intern(s) program.  Funds can be used for intern stipends, trainings, or other intern related activities as deemed appropriate.  The $1,000 grants are made possible by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation.

For additional information and an application, click here.

2018 Summer Learning Resources Grants

From the YALSA website:

This grant is designed to provide libraries in need with funds for resources so that they are better equipped to offer services and resources that help prevent the summer slide in under-served teens most vulnerable to summer learning loss, including teens who speak English as a second language, teens in socio-economically challenged communities, and teens who are at risk of failing school.

For additional information, click here.

Preservation Assistance Grants

Preservation Assistance Grants help small and mid-sized institutions—such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, cultural organizations, town and county records offices, and colleges and universities—improve their ability to preserve and care for their significant humanities collections.

Ezra Jack Keats Mini-Grant Program

The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, which fosters children's love of reading and creative expression in our diverse culture, celebrates the 30th year of its Mini-Grant program with a call for proposals. Approximately 60 grants of up to $500 each will be awarded to qualifying teachers and librarians in public schools and libraries across the country.

Our Caps, Your Cause

Prairie Farms donates funds to charitable organizations through their Our Caps, Your Cause program.  Charitable organizations--like libraries--can register for the program, and then encourage their patrons to go the Prairie Farms website to enter the code found on the milk cap.  For additional information, check out the Prairie Farms website.

 

The Ruth Toor Grant for Strong Public School Libraries

The Ruth Toor Grant for Strong Public School Libraries provides funding support on a competitive basis to public school libraries—located in the United States and led by a certified school librarian—for the creation and implementation of a local public awareness/marketing campaign that promotes and positions their school library as a necessary resource in the community, tying in the theme “Strong School Libraries.”

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FY2018 School District Library Grant

The School District Library Grant Program is designed to help provide more library books and materials for the students of public schools in Illinois. The state legislature has authorized up to a $.75 per pupil expenditure for qualifying schools. The grant award is based on funds appropriated by the General Assembly and the official enrollment as of the previous September 30th of a school district.