Updated on December 2011!
NEW Grant Info for STEM, Early Childhood, Evironmental Education, Technology and more!
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 Get your share of funding! As your school library and media partner, we can provide information on your best opportunities to receive funds and to make the most of every grant dollar. We can help you prepare your grants, and locate the materials that will help you realize sustainable improvement in student achievement.
We've just updated the five featured grants highlighted below, in addition to our extensive list of grants located in our Grants & Funding Guide (PDF, 410 kb), which also features suggestions for the types of projects that grantors prefer.
If you have questions or comments, please take a minute to let us know how we can help.
Featured Grants
Snapdragon Book Foundation School Library Grant
Description: The Snapdragon Book Foundation was started in December 2008 to provide funds to improve school libraries for disadvantaged children. Founded by a former school librarian, this foundation exists to put books in the hands of kids. In a time when many schools are reallocating their funds to technology and audiovisual equipment, we hope to make sure that school libraries are still offering children good books to read.
Eligibility: Public, private, and experimental schools.
Award Amount: Unspecified.
Requirements: Focus should be books for disadvantaged students.
States: All
Application Opens: April 15, 2012
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Ezra Jack Keats Minigrant
Description: Created by the children's book author and illustrator, the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation. Come up with a creative program that can be enacted by students with their teacher or librarian.
Regard these programs as examples of the direction your project might take…we encourage new ideas.
Eligibility: Public schools and public libraries are eligible for the EJK Minigrant Program. Preschool Head Start programs are also invited to apply for Minigrants. Only public organizations are eligible – private, parochial and charter schools should not apply.
Award Amount: $500.00
Requirements: EJK Minigrants were designed to make the most of the time teachers and librarians spend with their students. If a program is innovative, imaginative and inspiring, we will be interested in considering it for support. In such cases we will consider funding the purchase of books, equipment and materials.
States: We fund institutions and programs within the United States, including Puerto Rico and Guam.
Application Deadline: 11:59 p.m., March 15, of each year. Notification of status will be emailed to everyone by the end of May. |
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Additional Grants & Funding Information
If you are looking for a grant writing guide that contains several samples of awarded school library grants, please call us at 888.511.5114, x1164 or 815.759.1700, x1164.
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