ncompass live: how to: continuing education/training and library improvement grants
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How To:Continuing
Education/Training and
Library Improvement Grants
NCompass LiveNovember 17, 2010
Continuing Education & Training Grants
Library Improvement Grants Internship GrantsScholarshipsYouth Grants for Excellence
Nebraska Library Commission has several grant programs
http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/libdev/grant.html
Accredited Nebraska public libraries Identified institutional librariesNebraska Regional Library SystemsOther organizations partnered with an
eligible entity
Eligibility
$250 to $5000
Continuing Education & Training Grant
December 17, 2010: Applications due January 21, 2011: Grants awarded June 17, 2011: Funds must be disbursed September 30, 2011: Projects completed October 21, 2011: Final reports submitted
Continuing Education & Training Grant
25% match
Continuing Education & Training Grant
If you are requesting $1000, then your match is $250, and the total project budget is $1250.
The purpose of these grants is to assist Nebraska libraries to improve the library services provided to their communities through continuing education and training for their library personnel and supporters. Successful applications will show how the continuing education and/or training proposed will support the library's mission.
Continuing Education & Training Grant
Doesn’t cover:◦Nebraska regional or statewide professional conferences, ◦events sponsored by the Nebraska Library Commission for
the purpose of training or continuing education, ◦events sponsored by the Nebraska Regional Library
Systems for the purpose of training or continuing education, or
◦other similar workshops, conferences, meetings or events
Continuing Education & Training Grant
$500 to ???
LIS Grants
But call us & discuss your project if the grant request goes over $10,000
January 7, 2011 Applications due February 17, 2011 Recipients announced
LIS Grants
25% match (10% cash)
LIS Grants
If your project will cost $5000, then the match is 25% of that or $1250, and at least $500 of that $1250 must be cash. Your grant request will be $3750.
1. Expanding services for learning and access to information and educational resources in a variety of formats, in all types of libraries, for individuals of all ages;
2. Developing library services that provide all users access to information through local, state, regional, national, and international electronic networks;
3. Providing electronic and other linkages among and between all types of libraries;
LIS Grants
4. Developing public and private partnerships with other agencies and community based organizations;
5. Targeting library services to individuals of diverse geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds, to individuals with disabilities, and to individuals with limited functional literacy or information skills; and
6. Targeting library and information services to persons having difficulty using a library and to underserved urban and rural communities, including children (from birth through age 17) from families with incomes below the poverty. . .
Funds cannot be used for:◦Library construction or
renovation◦Furniture
LIS Grants
A good ideaA workable plan to
carry out the idea
What are we looking for in a grant application?
InnovativeBenefits library usersSustainable
How do we define a good idea?
People with skills, knowledge and time to carry it out
Stated goals and a way to measure how well the goals were achieved
Strategies for achieving the goals A timeline A budget Support from stakeholders
What makes a plan workable?
http://nebraskaccess.ne.gov/grants.asp
http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/libdev/Conedgrants/grantinformationtips.html
http://www.raconline.org/info_guides/funding/grantwriting.php
http://www.npguides.org/