Build-A-Bear Workshop Bear Hugs Foundation. The Build-A-Bear Workshop Bear Hugs Foundation provides literacy and education grants to support children in summer reading programs, early childhood education programs, and special needs literacy programs
NCFL (National Center for Family Literacy) has launched a new funding opportunity to support family literacy in the library setting. Through the Libraries and Families Award, NCFL will distribute $30,000 in funding to libraries that are pioneering programs to families. Funding for the program will come from Better World Books’ Libraries Discards & Donations program, […]
Leslie B. McDonough, Director of the Scituate (RI) Public Library, announced that the Library has been awarded an American Association for the Advancement in Science (AAAS) Skin Deep Library Project mini-grant ($500). The library will cooperate with the Scituate Health Alliance to present programs about maintaining healthy skin - with particular outreach to families with […]
The Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, RI, was awarded $99,450 for the project “Graphics Division Inventory.” For the project, the Rhode Island Historical Society will inventory, survey, and create collection-level cataloging records for the audiovisual materials in the Society’s Graphics Division. The Society pledged a matching amount of $103,977. Under the Museums for […]
2010 guidelines for American Heritage Preservation Program
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Bank of America Charitable Foundation are pleased to announce the 2010 guidelines for the American Heritage Preservation Program. This public-private partnership will fund the preservation of endangered and fragile art works, rare books, scientific specimens, […]
The latest round of Big Read grants was just announced by IMLS and NEH. The Rhode Island winners are:
Preservation Society of Newport County Newport, RI for The Great Gatsby. Award amount: $7,500
Rhode Island College - James P. Adams Library, Providence, RI for Edgar Allan Poe. Award amount: $20,000
To read more about the Big Read project […]
Congratulations to the four most recent RI organizations to be awarded Connecting to Collections Bookshelves. The Bookshelf comprises resources for collections typically found in art or history museums and in libraries’ special collections, with an added selection of texts for living collections. It is a component of Connecting to Collections: A Call to Action, a […]
Congratulations to Cranston Public Library. Cranston Public Library was recently one of just 20 libraries in the nation to be chosen by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) to receive a YALSA Teen Tech Week mini-grant. The grant money and the products were used to put on a week-long series of […]
Here is one of the grant and funding opportunities listed on LYPonline. The McKenzie Foundation supports non-profit programs primarily in the areas of education, health, human services, and cultural and environmental concerns. It’s four initiatives include early childhood development, education, the environment, and arts and culture. The Foundation believes that assisting families is one of the most effective and lasting […]
Last Chance to Apply for Connecting to Collections Bookshelf from Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and American Association of State and Local History
Deadline: March 9, 2009
IMLS is offering a third round of competition to distribute an additional 1000 Bookshelves, a core set of books, DVDs, online resources, and an annotated bibliography that are […]
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