NCompass Live: How To: Continuing Education/Training and Library Improvement Grants

How To:
Continuing Education/Training
and
Library Improvement Grants
NCompass Live
November 17, 2010

Nebraska Library Commission has several grant programs
Continuing Education & Training Grants
Library Improvement Grants
Internship Grants
Scholarships
Youth Grants for Excellence

http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/libdev/grant.html

Eligibility
Accredited Nebraska public libraries
Identified institutional libraries
Nebraska Regional Library Systems
Other organizations partnered with an eligible entity

Continuing Education & Training Grant
$250 to $5000

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

25% match
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.

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

LIS Grants
$500 to ???
But call us & discuss your project if the grant request goes over $10,000

LIS Grants
January 7, 2011 Applications due
February 17, 2011 Recipients announced

LIS Grants
25% match (10% cash)
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.

LIS Grants
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;

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. . .

LIS Grants
Funds cannot be used for:
Library construction or renovation
Furniture

What are we looking for in a grant application?
A good idea
A workable plan to carry out the idea

How do we define a good idea?
Innovative
Benefits library users
Sustainable

What makes a plan workable?
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

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/

NCompass Live: How To: Continuing Education/Training and Library Improvement Grants

by Nebraska Library Commission

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