Offered by the Illinois Secretary of State and the Illinois State Library, these "Grant projects provide instruction to help adults who read below the ninth grade level or speak English at a beginning level to improve their basic reading, writing, math, or English language proficiency. Services are provided through the use of trained, unpaid volunteer tutors."

For additional information, and the online application, click here.

Offered by the Illinois Secretary of State and the Illinois State Library, these "Grant projects provide instruction at the workplace to improve the basic reading, writing, math skills or English language proficiency of employees. Services are provided through a partnership between one business and an adult educational agency."

For additional information, and the electronic grant application, click here. 

From the ALA website:

The CSK Review Books Donation Grant was created to help build collections and bring books into the lives of children in latchkey, preschool programs, faith-based reading projects, homeless shelters, charter schools and underfunded libraries.

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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.

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.

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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.

The Library of Congress has available at all times, for donation to eligible organizations and institutions, surplus books which are not needed for the Library's own uses.

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.

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.

AASL is pleased to offer the Inspire Collection Development Grant, a grant so that an existing public middle or high school can extend, update, and diversify the book, online, subscription and/or software collections in their library in order to realize sustainable improvement in student achievement at their school.