 Hey, good morning, and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Christa Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the commission's weekly webinar series where we cover a variety of topics that may be of interest to libraries. The show is broadcast live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central Time. But if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We do record the show and then post it in our archives later so you can watch at your convenience. And I'll show you at the end of today's show where you can access all of your recordings. Both the live show and the archive recordings are free and open to anyone to watch. So please do share with your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, anyone you think might be interested in any of the topics we have on the show. For those of you not from Nebraska, the Nebraska Library Commission is the state agency for libraries in Nebraska. This would be similar to your state library in other states. And we are the agency for all types of libraries. So you will find things in our show that are for public libraries, academics, K-12, corrections, museums, archives, special, et cetera, et cetera. Really our only criteria for the show is that it is something about libraries, something that libraries are doing. Cool services or resources we think they could be using. We sometimes have library commission staff come on and do presentations about things we specifically are offering here via the Nebraska Library Commission. We also bring in guest speakers from across Nebraska and across the country actually to be on the show sometimes. All right. So before we do get into today's show, I know we have a lot of Nebraska people that did sign up today. I just want to pop over to our library commission website and remind you all about we are still in the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Things are getting worse in some areas. It's changing all the time. And on our library commission website for libraries, we do have a post here pinned to the top of our websites. We'll always be there at the very top for you of resources that we have for libraries. About that you also see a list, a link here for a list of what we're trying to collect information from Nebraska libraries, mostly publics that anyone who will tell us who's open, who's closed. Special accommodations libraries might be making curbside pickup, Wi-Fi in the parking lot. Now we also have libraries re-closing again because there have been outbreaks, new outbreaks in areas, so things are always changing. So keep an eye on that list if you want to know what's going on with our Nebraska libraries. Let us know here in the commission if you need to update your information there. But I just want to show you here on our pandemic resources page. We have a list of the links. We have some maps. We have a form you can use or you can email us to let us know what your library is doing. But this subpage here, we have some resources both for libraries and for just people. If you have someone in your library who wants to know about financial help, unemployment, schooling for my kids, et cetera, et cetera. We've gathered lots of resources here where we're always updating. I just want to highlight the one here, what about my library? This is specifically for you as a librarian in your library, what you can be doing, some things to help you out. We are keeping an eye on things. If there's new webinars or resources that are put up or a new system, something recorded or new information, we try to update it here on our website. So information about health and safety with your library, specifically information for school libraries. If you're holding board meetings, now remember if you're not from Nebraska, make sure you check your state's rules about some of these things. There may be different statutes and different states regarding this, but this is specific to Nebraska. Examples of other libraries who have opened and how they're doing it with their policies. So a lot of good resources here for you to use. Next is coming up tomorrow. I believe there is a webinar from the Realm project that is the project being done with OCLC and IMLS where they're actually testing COVID as they put it on particular materials that libraries may use. And tomorrow afternoon, I'm just bringing up the information over here. Collections and facilities caring for your resources during COVID-19 is the name of the webinar. Tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock, they will be live streaming it. So if you go through this realm, they're always updating their information on there a lot. That is coming up just tomorrow after 2 p.m. central time. I should clarify that. So that'd be something we can do. So I just want to make sure everyone is aware we have this information up there. If you have any resources you think we should be adding to it, anything you've heard about, let us know, let our reference staff know, and we'll keep that up to date for you. All right. So on to today's show. Today's show, you're going to be hearing from me. I am, in addition to being the host of our Encompass Live show here, I am the Library Development Director here at the Nebraska Library Commission. And as in that capacity in the Library Commission, we handle many of the grants that the Library Commission gives out to libraries for different purposes. There are other grants beyond what we do as well here, though. So I wanted to get lots of questions from libraries and library staff asking, you know, what else can I apply for? What if one of your grants are done or the monies run out or whatever the situation is? What else can I apply for? So I decided to gather some of that information together. Some of it came from a meeting of some of our librarians a couple of years ago. Someone else did another librarian in the state to put together a handout with some great resources that I've been updating over the last couple of years. And I've used that to create, to put together some information. So just some other funding opportunities that you might not know about or you might not think about in your library, especially now. Libraries are always struggling with budgets. There's always never enough money to do everything you want to do. And especially now, with the pandemic going on, many municipalities may be struggling with funding coming in, struggling with tax revenues, any sort of revenue coming into the city, to the cities and municipalities, which makes everyone's budgets need to be cut in potentially. So that is something that some of you may be dealing with, may be struggling with and know you're going to have to struggle with with your budgets as they come up. So it's even more imperative of libraries to get creative with being able to find funding in ways that they can supplement what they do get from their local municipality. What I have done is I've created a webpage that is grants for Nebraska libraries. Now, this is a work in progress. I just started working on it recently. So you won't find anything linked to this yet. I'm still figuring out where it will fit in in the whole Library Commission webpage. But if you do go to the URL here that I have here, it is live though. nlc.nabrasca.gov slash grants slash grants.aspx. That will bring you right to it. As soon as we figure out where it will live officially and it becomes live and part of our website, I will let you guys all know where, if it ends up moving somewhere else. So a lot of this is based, as I said, on a handout that was created from our Southeast Library system for a workshop that they did a couple of years ago. Some of it is from resources that I've been keeping an eye on for libraries. As I said, as a Library Development Director, part of my job is getting this information out to you as best as I can with announcements and reminders and things. But I decided that we needed a page for it. Just rather than me just having it out there and people can find it, let's try and gather as much as we can into one place. As I was working on this, and you guys may have noticed, if you've gone looking for grant resources, there is no, unfortunately, no one stop shopping for all grants that might be available to libraries, whether you're a public school, academic, whatever. There's just, and what I've discovered is it's not that they're not out there. It's just there's so many opportunities, so many things you could potentially apply for. Some of them very specific that say this is for libraries, and some for other things like grants for municipalities or for cities that listed somewhere in there as any city agency, any city department can apply for this grant and get the funding. Library being a city agency in a public library can use it. Some grants are just for nonprofit organizations. Some are for your, you're in a certain geographic area. We're in your city, your state. We only get grants in the state or in this range of states. Some of them are for certain sizes of communities. So there's lots and lots of criteria to look at, but there's lots of resources out there. So this list, as I put a little note here at the top here just to start off, it is not exhaustive. It is not everything out there. It's really hard to gather everything out there, but these are some ones that I know that I've recommended to libraries and they've been successful with. Libraries themselves have recommended them as ones that they have used themselves here in Nebraska. For those of you not here in Nebraska, some of these are specific to only Nebraska libraries, but some of these are outside of Nebraska as well. So just pay attention to the criteria and the information for each one of the grants, and you will be able to find the ones that you could apply for. All right. So I've got this so far just broken up into grants at the top here and then at the bottom resources for finding funding, places for other grants that you can find. And we're just going to go through this from top to bottom. As I said, this is a work in progress. I may add some other grants that I find out about that I decide might need to be highlighted and pushed out to you guys. I do, as new grants are announced or deadlines come up, I try to push it out on our blog, Library Commission blog and our social media that we have. So you can also pay attention there to see if anything new comes up. That just isn't listed on here. And while we're doing the show today, if you guys have any ideas, any grants you've applied for, any resources that you know of that other libraries may benefit from, type into the questions section. Let me know. We want to share with everybody what might be out there that everyone can benefit from. If there's anything I've missed here. So we'll start right here at the top is, I did mention the Library Commission grants that we offer. This is the ones that we offer here through our library development department. And they are open right now, actually. And well, some of them are open right now. We'll get to that. And I'm not going to do a huge detail on this. We did do a session all about these specific grants just a couple of weeks ago in September. So the recording for this is up on our website, but I just want to remind you that these are available. We have continuing education grants that, now there's actually two versions of that going on right now. Today is the deadline to apply for the continuing education grants specifically to attend next week's Iowa Library Association virtual conference. Their annual conference, they decided to go virtual completely. It's next Thursday, October 15th. You can still register for that. But we decided here, as we call that flash grant, it was a very quick thing. We just got it set up last week. So if you look on our blog, you'll find links and information about that. Today, midnight today is the deadline to apply for that grant just to attend next week's Iowa Library Association online conference. Library staff board members are all welcome to apply for that. Also today is the deadline to apply for our youth grants for excellence. These are for any of your children's services or children's programs you want to do. Sally Snyder is our youth grant librarian here, and she is in charge of those. So today is a deadline both for the youth grants for excellence and the special CE grant for attending next week's Iowa Library Association conference. We also have our CE and training grants open for just any purpose that you want. If you want to attend a conference of some sort, if you want to bring in someone to do a presentation at your library that's specific to them, attending conferences, online workshops, and things you can apply for that there. So this is open right now, and the deadline for that is December 9th. Our internship grants are also open right now. The deadline for that is November 10th. This is for, we will give up to $1,000 to a library to hire, basically hire an extra staff person for whatever you need them to do sometime next year in 2021. The fourth grant we have listed here is our library improvement grants. Right now we do not have those open because we don't know yet what our federal budget will be from the federal government. We get federal LSTA, Library Service Technology Act funds for this grant, and right now we do not know what that will be, we do not know if we will have the money to do those grants. So keep your eyes open for announcements about that. But those are the grants that we offer here through the library commission. Like I said, we did a session earlier about this. You have more information about it. If you have questions about the CE grants, contact Holly Duggan here at the library commission. Internship grants, that's me. I'm in charge of those, as well as the library improvement grants, and youth grants would be Sally Snyder. So we're going into other things that are just not the library commission grants. The Crews Bennett Donor Advice Fund is a great resource for our little libraries, our small and rural libraries. The first criteria have to be in a community with a population less than 3,000. So this is for our little guys. Love this grant. It's really great. We also did a show about this a couple of months ago in August. So we have a lot more details about that. You can go there. It does require a match, so you do have to match one-to-one for that. So if you ask for a grant for a project that costs a total of $1,000, the grant can give you $500, and you would have to come up with the other $500 from somewhere in your community or in your budget. There are three different grants available through this fund. Two of them are, you need to be in a credit and public library here in Nebraska. And this is a grant that is for Nebraska libraries. There is an enhancement grant and a facilities grant. Enhancement grants should do new programs, improve services, things like that. And facilities, things about your building. The third grant is a planning grant. It's in a planning for accreditation grant. And this is for, if you are not an accredited library here in Nebraska right now, you can get funding to help you reach that accreditation. So if you need to have, be paid extra staff time to work on your accreditation or work on creating your community needs response planning or purchase a service or upgrade your computers or intranet or by eBooks, whatever you might need to reach accreditation, you can apply for a planning grant through this fund. And this is done through the Nebraska Community Foundation. I'll also mention, while we're talking about this specific grant, look in your local communities to see if they have worked with the Nebraska Community Foundation to create other funding resources for you or your municipality. They're all over the state. But the specific one is specific to Nebraska public libraries in communities with a population 3,000 or less. And all the information you'd hear is available. Now this one did just close for this year. Unfortunately, the short applications were due October 1st. So at the moment there we go. It's not open right now. It just closed. But keep an eye on it for next year. This has the same schedule every year. The short applications always do October 1st of any year. And then the team of people, it's actually Shirley, the one who's the founder of this grant. Her nieces and nephews, along with me as the participant from the commission, we get together and discuss the short applications. And then you are invited to submit a longer application that would be due in the spring. So highly recommend it for all our little guys and look for it for next year. The Nebraska Department of Economic Development has quite a few grants that you wouldn't maybe think about that libraries can apply for as well. You can see them a few times on the list, my list here. The Community Development Block Grants and the Civic and Community Center Financing Fund are two through that department that libraries are actually mentioned in both of those that could receive funding. And I know we have libraries that have done both of these. The CDBG when everybody has to have an acronym. There it goes. All the information you need is here on this web page. It does require a match. And I have that here on this page. Basic quick information for you about each of these grants just to give you a short idea of what it might be like before you go into the main page for each particular grant to get all the details. So it does have a 25% match. They do state that this is for public libraries who have been accredited through the library commission. So you need to be accredited to apply for this one. And they consider libraries into their public work section. When you look on their website you will see there is lots of different opportunities, different grants, downhub organization, emergent threat, et cetera, et cetera. But they mention libraries under their public works. This one did also just close for this year, but it's an every year thing. So you can look for it again next year. But if you want to know more about this grant though, if you scroll down on this page they do have all the grant application guidelines available here for the current year. So you can check and see what would be in a public works application that I could do. Here's a webinar about it here. And then they have the actual guidelines here. So you can plan ahead and see for next year if I do want to apply for one of these what do I need to know? What do I need to put into this grant kind of requirements are there? What would I need to, what could I potentially put in here for my particular application for my library? So definitely take a look at that one from the Department of Economic Development. Also the Civic and Community Center Financing Fund is another one just a slightly different. This is to, as it says here for actual construction. So community facilities that they mentioned libraries would be considered a community facility. Your municipality itself would actually apply for this. So the city would work with your city on this one. They would apply for this and then it could be for the, would be for the library. It is also has cost sharing match. It's can't the grant can't account for more than 50% of the project costs. So as a minimum you're going to need to do 50. It may be more depending on how much money you may be able to come up with yourself in your community. So this is also Department of Economic Development and they have the same kind of information on here as their other grants how to apply, overviews, the awards. This one is actually coming up. This one is when you can look at and into applying right now and now would be a good time to start looking at it because the first letter of intent date is actually January 2021. So this would be something for next year to look into. So this one is available right now for you to apply for. As you see some of these grants that something you have to look at as well when you're looking at grants is how often are they offered. Some of them are only like as you can see for these from the state once a year. It's a once a year deal you gotta wait till next time. Some of them some of these grants you'll see some that I'll talk about in a minute here will accept applications or requests for funding throughout the year. So at any time you come up with an idea of something if it fits into one of their criteria you can shoot out an application to someone at any time. So this one right now you can apply for it. Start looking into how you would apply for it and you get all your information here about the application guidelines. The sample. I love this when they do these things. A template for the letter of intent because if you're not sure what the heck that means and what I should say in that they've got an example for you. Example an application even their own tips for putting together a successful application. Definitely look for at each grant of what their criteria are what they're looking for. They're going to tell you somewhere on their information. This is what our priorities are. This is what we're really into or we require that you make sure you mention this mention that your city is struggling in this area or mention that you're going to highlight diversity and this is what your project is about or our projects about children because that whatever this grant is is more into resources for children and youth. Pay attention to what they're telling their say in their grants. So Department of Economic Development great resource here in Nebraska too. Another one for construction and facilities if you're building needs work a USDA community facilities grants and loans. This is one that's slightly different. It has both grants available where it's just grants is just money you get loans is just like any loan you've gotten yourself you get the money and then you do have to repay it in some way back to them. So they have two options for you depending on what might work best for you. This is from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. So this is from the USDA. So this is from the Federal United States government but this is as you can see here specifically for Nebraska. So it's the USDA real development department in Nebraska. So this is from the federal government but local to us. This is one that is open all the time as you can see that it is open they've got in links here for you where you can apply what all the requirements are. They have a fact sheet all about it which is great resource they have in Spanish if you need that they have lots of detailed information about their grant. So this is for specifically for rural because of this is for the USDA rural development this is in rural areas and their criteria of who can apply is public bodies community-based nonprofit corporations federally recognized tribes. That's all of you municipal libraries out there in your cities and your villages and towns that's you. And this is also for smaller as they said rural for them the cutoff for rural is no more than 20,000 residents that's almost everybody in Nebraska all areas Nebraska practically besides Lincoln Omaha and larger cities. So this would be almost anybody in this day would be able to apply for this one and they do mention here there we go libraries for them are under educational services museums libraries or private schools. So dig deep take into these grants and see where they mention libraries what are they thinking of libraries at as in this case they're thinking of them as education so this would be kind of a grant to apply for that is related to education doing some sort of training and or workshops or something with your library that would relate to that either a program that you're doing updating your library if you need to update maybe a community meeting room to be able to provide educational services with what's happening now update your ability to do virtual education virtual training and workshops and sessions do you need new webcams do you need ring light it's a cool thing everybody needs to have do you need better internet service to be able to broadcast these services these programs out start thinking creatively with what we are what's going on now so this is a great one through the US government specific to Nebraska now here we start getting into some things that you may know about you may not may have heard of yourself that just get a little creative these are the ones that some libraries have applied for and have been very successful with the railroads here in Nebraska well Midwest railroads are everywhere it's how business is done still both Union Pacific and Burlington Northern have grant opportunities available that libraries would be able to apply for you are a 501c3 public charity as the Union Pacific foundation describes it you would be able to apply for this you need to be in a community served by them it's for both of these they're trying to support the communities where they go through where their railroads go through so for both of these you need to be easier so you can quickly find it because I had to dig a little the maps showing here is where Union Pacific where they do business and there's Nebraska whole bunch of areas right through there that could apply for this one for the NSF same thing they have a map here showing where their where their routes go same thing there's lots of lines in Nebraska so if you are anywhere on these maps and either one of these either one of these railroads you would be eligible to apply for their grant programs and they're both pretty similar just two different roads Union Pacific actually does mention libraries they have different funding priorities and under community spaces what they consider libraries as so I've got a link here to their priorities here there's link through application process grant criteria that's what you've got to look at in here but they have a bunch of different causes that they have here they call their funding priorities objective safety workforce development but for libraries that's community spaces is where they consider libraries under and you can see it here there it is right in the top one create sustain or expand upon artistic and cultural experiences offered to a broad and diverse audience museums theaters libraries concerts lectures etc so for this grant that's the kind of thing you'd be thinking of some sort of program that is cultural or artistic or you know something you're doing for your community so or something you do need to do to you know do construction in your library you can get you know reach out to them and ask about what they want me to do so you know this is what they're thinking of is cultural experiences artistic and cultural experiences previous can't was education just you know see what they're talking about and the bnsf railway foundation that they've got their information here how to apply their policies and programs all listed there they do a lot of they're a lot of different filipino work a lot of these are foundations and groups do but specifically for libraries look at their policies their criteria that basically you need to be just like the other one close and nearby to where they do business and nonprofit tax exempt organizations that's public libraries to pretty much to a T so both of those are really good resources support the railways in the community anybody have any questions do you have any questions or comments if you've applied for any of these and you want to share anything about it let us know type in the questions section there and share what you've done if you had any good bad experiences any of these or any other ones that you want to let other libraries know about so next I have on here is some private foundations lots of people and that's actually that the crates Bennett grant was also the same kind of thing an individual passed on and she had money and decided to give it which use it in a charitable way and use the Nebraska community foundation to run her grant program other individuals have come up with their own the Peter Peter Q it foundation this is also 513 501 C3 status or be a unit of government in Nebraska that's a public library and this is one that you know some of the other ones had deadlines and dates when you had to apply by and they may have passed they do so they will regularly be looking at what you want to apply for so this is the one at any time you want to put in an application to their foundation and as they you know they're always on a rolling basis looking at these applications they have information about impact areas the specific things that they are interested in giving money towards youth economic growth thriving places and you can look for more information about all of these excuse me in there on their website so you can see the kind of things that they are looking at enable youth this is something that may be great this kind of jumped out at for libraries enable youth particularly vulnerable youth to access the program services they need to be prepared for academic personal professional success that just screams libraries to me out of school time programs so that the community programs things after school programs libraries are doing here under cradle to clear a lot career alignment so look at theirs they have information about the application process FAQs and you can even see also which is great for some of these definitely look for this as well on a lot of these and this one that's just jumped out at me here what grants they have already offered here they've got you can search the past five years you can see what kind of things they are giving grants for which have been successful so if any of these grant programs do offer that look and see what other people have applied have applied and received funding for and then you'll know the kind of things that they are really like and you can see here related to libraries stem lots of libraries during stem programming now youth development youth pathways to success so all of those could be things that may have something library related to it and you can see they have different types of grants depending on what you want to do to events cap capital you need programs so it's kind of very lots of different things that you can look into there and we do have a comment from someone cool thank you Donna yes the USDA and the CCCFF the civic and community center financing fund she says Donna Cruz says they are grant staff are very easy to work with yes I know I've talked to people work definitely the USDA one and that they are just they got this money they want to get out they want to help you be successful but a reminder for the federal grants she says that they have more thorough applications and reporting needs that is definitely something to pay attention to with all of these if you need to make sure you have the time or the staff to help you or a volunteer or a board member someone who can help you keep up with these grants potentially because there will be the application itself to submit sometimes you have to put up a whole budget of here's how we're going to make this work here's what the matches that we the match that we're doing that we've come up with and then there may be follow up reporting throughout the life of the grant at the end of the grant and it's all going to vary from organization definitely federal ones I would say probably the most strict and have the most reporting and reports and application and things that you need to do and keep up with here at the library commission we do have follow up reports for all of our grants too not I hopefully hopefully not too scary but we do want to know how did you do it was a success but you definitely look into what they they may be asking for you that's a good tip Donna definitely that you know look into what their reporting is and seeing are you going to be able to keep up with these particular grants so next we have here excuse me is a Robert B. Doherty foundation same kind of thing as the one tax exempt organizations in Nebraska their libraries and they do grants throughout the whole year so at any time you want to you can just whenever you're thinking of there's no deadlines to say right here anytime you come up with an idea submit a grant to them and they'll just be constantly reviewing them and deciding on what funding they may give out they have lots of different types of grants to this something to pay attention to as well in grants is what time frame are these for is that one shot deal one thing for one year you know it's just for a specific event this year is it a multi-year thing because it's a huge project is it for construction specifically in this capital campaigns in this case they do offer if you want to do a challenge or matching grants this so they have a mixture of them will just grant you the money or if you want to do a match where if you have matching funds available or if you can get your community real really revved up for donate bake sales etc etc for the match that we can then you know show them that we have community support so much community support for this grant and you'll see also you'll see on some of these private definitely on these private foundations I notice this a lot on the ones I looked at what they will not make grants for so pay attention to that as well most of this does not apply to our libraries so that I think it's okay but do pay attention if there's things they won't do don't you know waste you know you want to waste your time on something that you would be able to apply for foundation this is good for as I mentioned your startup programs capital campaigns construction if you need something done you know another facilities type grant and what's great about all these grants to is you can apply for multiple ones apply for as many as you have the time and the energy and the capability to do if you can only get a certain amount of money from you know the crates Bennett grant that you only ask for you know part of your application from there and then part from one of the foundations that's okay you know if you have a huge project in your library building or something do multiples that's okay you can have funding you don't have to say just to one foundation we need a hundred thousand dollars or we need half a million dollars to build this new building or whatever it is that you need parse it out to each one of them and break it up that way and maybe you'd be more successful with some of the smaller ones that way some of the grants do have limitations on how much they will grant out as well to a live to an organization or each year so that's something to pay attention to that there may be a maximum you can ask for but that's okay go somewhere else and make it up another grant organization that I found that is for great for construction projects is the Sunderland foundation and this is they're actually based out of Kansas but they will give grants to any nonprofits who are this is an individual who started up this Ash Grove cement company and they do business across a lot of states in the Midwest and Midwest and Western a part of the country so any states that they do business in nonprofits in those states are eligible to apply for their grants this is an annual one so it does have its own deadlines and things and you can see they do have is it this one here the different areas that they do the other grants call their funding priorities or focus they all use different wording but they have the different funding areas higher education so they do community colleges so this one is good for academics academic libraries if you need public universities even private colleges anything they do higher education human services arts and culture that's where libraries come in for them you can see here they have granted one to the list here specifically Kansas City public library during museum here in Omaha so libraries would fall under their arts public libraries fall under their arts and culture academic libraries under education higher education so look at their different areas that they also do list here the same thing the grants that they have awarded for the last few years here so I look through these and they've got their civic grants for organizations you can see here different cities and whatnot and you do have to think about what you're applying for here this one you can see here friends of the Winthrop library in Winthrop Washington so a friends group got a hundred thousand dollar grant from them not sure what for but but if you scroll down under cultural grants that's where a lot of the libraries start popping up Fort Worth Museum of Science history friends children's museum Dorothy Brownledge public library you see these are kind of things in a more library related to your museums can the city public library the one that it's in here before and then the education grants here you go to for our academics out there community colleges state colleges private universities all over across the board here and in any state where they do as I said where they do business and I do believe I did have back up here there it is they do have a map to the blue states as where they are where people will be eligible for so Midwest and then it's like they jumped over and expanded up into the Pacific Northwest area Western and Pacific Northwest so any of those states it would be eligible for this one so definitely for construction and if you're a nonprofit this would be on and you can see all the large large grants that they did give out through there and now fix that there there are also things like and the Dollar General Literacy Foundation Dollar General and I've just got that one here because I love the literacy part of it here and as well as the Pilgrim Foundation doing books for children but there are grants from Walmart Target I know in the past Best Buy and Lowe's did grants I'm not sure what their programs are at right now they seem to be defunct but definitely look into all these national companies but locally if you have one of them in your community here with Dollar General you just need to be within 15 miles of a Dollar General store and you're eligible they have a right now 5 different literacy related grants available one for adult literacy one for family literacy one for youth literacy a specific one for summer reading so if you're looking into planning your summer reading programs for next year that could be one for you and then I want specifically for school libraries so this is for those of you in your K-12 school, school library relief for libraries who have had struggling and that one's called the Beyond Words Dollar General School Library Relief Program so for the adult family and literacy adult basic education and you see right now the they've done the 2020 grants but just like the other one that we mentioned early the 2021 grant applications will be available starting in January of next year so these are ones to look at for future to see what I want to do next year so you've got your adult literacy your family literacy programs your youth literacy program summer reading as I mentioned and then the for school libraries recovering from a disaster so things like you know tornadoes floods things that we get here in the Midwest hurricanes if you're in other areas and this is done in conjunction with the American Association of School Librarians so they are working with them for the correct kind of resources and things that school library would need so this one is great for public and academic and K-12 libraries the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and like I said look into I know other libraries have done Target and as I mentioned Target and Walmart is there any other local organizations that local businesses like that you guys know of let me know the Pilcro foundation is also a great resource as well this one gives actual books specifically to rural public libraries so this is another one for our little little libraries just like what Nebraska is full of rural communities and this one they have to have a population under 10,000 and they even mentioned and this is wording from their website give priority to ones even smaller under 5,000 so if you are 5,000 or less you are at the top of the list for this grant the Pilcro foundation and they have two different types of grants programs that they have they have other children's book project grant which you have to come up with funding from your friends library group local sponsors for part of the grant and they will make a match to that that's just for children's books for your library and then they have a disaster relief grant specifically for anyone who's come suffered from a recent disaster in your in your community are there any sort of natural disaster and this is a limited number of grants there for this one and it's a special grant that they do as needed basically if there's been like last year we had the flooding which I know some libraries are still recovering from and in the western part of the country with all the fires in California so this is actually years ago if anyone ever heard of the library foundation did put out grants and I found information about them as well they are no longer doing that but this foundation has taken over what they had been doing which is just getting actual books so if you need books for your library this is for you so if you're trying you know that's a huge cost and materials to libraries it's yes you need the books for the kids for the adults so this is one to specifically get those books in your hands and for our rural communities yeah there we go so you have their children's book project and they've got information about both of their rural public library grants here I'll jump to the and you can see here who they have given a core or it's the same thing who they've given grants to previously so you can see if there's any communities here you want to reach out to them ask their input what did you do how did it go I'm sure libraries we like to help each other would be able to talk to any of these about what they're they have done really great here too sometimes you're talking about this one to one match and grant program grants I always wonder well how much is it going to be really I've got to come up with an amount I've got to figure out how much this project might cost and this one I like that they have given they specifically say you need to have somehow contributed two hundred to four hundred dollars for the purchase up to twelve hundred dollars of the cost of these books so they give you a number so it's going to be a two to one match you'll raise this much and we'll give you a match to go along with that they're doing a special project with Oregon so that's just a special thing for them and then the disaster relief grant program this is just a special one as I mentioned floods other natural disasters you can get up to we can select eight hundred dollars worth of books so that was something to apply for if you have suffered from anything related to that any sort of natural disaster natural natural disaster that your library community may have suffered from so looking for books definitely recommend them now back to the grants page now talking about books another one that I just thought of that I should actually like I said this is a work in progress this page first book has anyone worked with them before the first book we did a grant project along with them they give discounts to libraries to they don't have grants but they give you can purchase books through them at a great discount this is new books you just sign up for an account with them and you can just log into their marketplace their first book marketplace low cost books and educational resources actually got materials and things too like crayons markers coloring books things like that so if you are looking for books this isn't this is kind of off topic for us but related because I you know it's related to the books part highly recommend using them you can get books for like a couple of dollars that from them which may cost you ten twenty thirty dollars going through Amazon or something like that take a look at them they just did a grant project for the first time last year that we worked with them on so maybe they'll do another one we'll see and then so that's just some of the highlight ones some special ones that I brought up and of course there is IMLS Institute of Museum and Library Services they're the ones right now with the CARES Act grant they're the they got money from the the first CARES funding stimulus package for libraries but lots of other resources there through IMLS and what's great about theirs is they do specify you have specific grant programs for small libraries for rural libraries for tribal libraries so pay attention to what they are offering and what may fit your library here's the most recent grant one they've got accelerating promising practices for small libraries and they do they seem to have a lot more I think sometimes for museums but community catalyst initiative for museums and libraries as I said they had the CARES Act grants we did get funding here at the library commission from them for CARES Act we've already issued those grants so that has been done so far hopefully with new stimulus packages that will come up I know there are parts in some of them that are going through the the legislature right now the federal legislature that libraries and museums and IMLS is mentioned there's money set in there for that hopefully we'll have more here we go Native American, Native Hawaiian Museum services and these are things that are throughout the year they have different deadlines for each of them so you have to look at them to see when each one has this deadline National Leadership Grants for Libraries so IMLS this is getting money from the federal government so rather than all these other ones which was mainly talking about some local foundations local organizations Nebraska specific agencies IMLS that's going to the federal government so this is just some of the ones like I said there are so many grants and loans opportunities out there it's impossible to have them all here but these are just the ones that I know libraries have applied for here in Nebraska that I know have been successful and that are really generally local to either Nebraska or Midwest so I want to highlight those let me know if you have any others you think can be good we'll get them on here to help you expand your horizons and find even more opportunities though I do have some resources here because I can't list them all on this my webpage here so we link out to some other places where you can go and get even more resources and more information some of you may have heard of the foundation directory it is a big well the actual physical book is a big fat heavy hardcover book that some libraries have there's an online version of it that you have to pay for sometimes universities will have that some larger libraries may have a subscription to that but it can cost if you don't have access to it it's hard to find I believe we have a copy here in our library commission collection but you'd have to come here to use it sure if it's checkoutable check circulates but here in Nebraska our again here there again the Department of Economic Development has compiled their own foundation resource directory and this is the foundation is not just in Nebraska but outside of Nebraska as well and there's a lot of basic information about all these this is kind of like the same thing as the foundation directory that you heard of before but done by our Department of Economic Development and just free and open out there for anybody click on the link there and this is the most recent one is 2019 a guide for grants for Nebraska children youth families and communities and you'll see here and I'm just going to scroll to the head it just starts listing all these foundations and you'll see as I scroll through this it has got one two three five pages of listing of foundations that you that could be useful to you know this is as I said in the title it's for families children communities there's a little index here that explains if you're whatever this is great to depending on what you're doing in a civic program or something children youth all the different foundations that would have grants that would be for that particular focus so children youth for libraries civic programs culture libraries definitely could fall under that diversity education etc etc and if we pass all of these lists and we have yet libraries there it is they list libraries here and so you'll see some other ones here like I said I hard to list all of them but here's some more that would be in here in this foundation directory but as you know as we saw sometimes it doesn't say necessarily libraries in the grant descriptions or the grant guidelines so you just think is it something for the municipality is it about community development and that the library is involved in so you got to think creatively don't just limit yourself just to oh it doesn't have the word library in it and you'll see here I'll just show you basically this is just kind of basic info they give basic contact info what these the general purpose of this particular grant what it's for what they just determine is their particular fields of interest as you see this one education and art libraries could fall into those easily well those libraries doing so many wellness program things now with story walks and food programs and things like that you do lots of work with disadvantaged children helping with after school programming summer programming so right there is one you can definitely buy for and then just links to the grant pages themselves so great resource to find even more ideas and resources for funding there is a library grants blog if you actually do a use your search engine of choice and type in grants for libraries this is when you probably see that comes up it is announcements of various grants usually large things LA IMLS things like that so if you are wondering what's coming up in some of these you'll recognize from me sending out the same ones like I know I shared about this one the library is transferring communities focus on small and rural libraries the page jumps right out for us open right now deadline December 2nd this is done by Stephanie she is an author of actually this book here winning grants second edition how to do it manual for librarians it's an LA book but so if you want tips and tips on how to do grants that will be able to get a hold of but then she has this blog where she is just posting regularly just announcements of different kinds of grants it might be available there is a bunch of LA ones Captain Planet Foundation grants for unpublished writers, Starnet Steam equity projects so she's got all sorts of things here so a good thing to just check in regularly and see what she may have discovered and is pushing out there this is definitely for the more of the bigger ones like LA, PLA IMLS that's the kind of things that she's generally pushing out here so not the small local foundations and things this would be for more of the big ones but great resource for keep an eye on those things now LA American Library Association and Public Library Association and all of their different divisions and organizations there is a gigantic list is the only way I can describe it of grants that they just collect links to these various things these are also other things you can look at scholarships awards and things but I've got this to just go directly to just grants now this is a huge list because it is for grants you can apply for LA Presence Award for Advocacy I'll just alphabet all sorts of different ones you can do type of grants programs you can just look at a certain of LA if you want to you know you I just want ones from the school section or whatever note however here some of them say historical in their title that means these are grants that are no longer being offered so this is a collection of grants currently open and previous ones that were available and just aren't open now but I guess has a link to their page information about it so just pay attention to going through this but it is yeah a long long list of all sorts of different kind of grants that you can look into so definitely recommend taking a look at that for more grant watch is something that I've signed up for myself actually just to see what's going on and I'll show you that this is where you can you have to sign up for an account but it doesn't cost you anything and then you can get them to send you a weekly remind a weekly newsletter weekly email of grants in your certain let me your criteria specifically of whatever you want to be looking into I'm trying to find my most recent one I know I had one came to me so this is what I just wanted the website created myself a little quick account and then said I want to know anything happening in Nebraska so now about once we get an email that is the Nebraska grant watch and it's just specifically links to any grants that it is gathered and found out about in Nebraska or for the library's organizations in Nebraska be eligible for so easier grants Nebraska western Iowa nonprofits in eligible locations approved quality of life for local residents this is economic development community programs that's libraries schools nonprofits K-12 so there's one for classroom materials for schools responding to community needs what our libraries do tribal so they have all sorts of things you can get this kind of an a email sent you regularly you can search here to if you want to on your own but if you go to sign up and I'll just show you all you do is give an email address choose your country and state and then they will start sending you things that are in your area so you pick Nebraska Iowa New Jersey wherever you're at and then they'll start sending you the specific grant watch email for your area as I said you do have to create an account and I do them but it's not that it costs anything to just get these emails sent to you to give you an idea of what's coming up there are lots of resources like that out there where you can get information like that there's also and this last one here we're almost right we're a little over 11 o'clock that's okay we started a little late so we're just going to wrap up these last couple of things here specific grant opportunities for K-12 schools this is from the transforming education through technology journal they post links for specifically for K-12 so if your school grants and they do a weekly here of grants so they have it as a regularly posted you can see all these going back and back COVID-19 grants, code games, core micro grant program for educators and teachers etc etc and here's ongoing once and now here's where you get into this creative American Honda Foundation STEM grants Honda that is into STEM great learning and leadership grants from the National Education Association spark fund for STEM etc etc so and a lot of these you can see ongoing ongoing you don't have a deadline coming up that you're doing that you might have missed you can just go right in and apply whenever you think of something or come up with an idea or you think you might need money for something so definitely a great resource for those of you in your K-12 schools and let's take a here in our Nebraska access oh yes great another another tip from Donna TechSoup, if you use TechSoup to do to buy technology or attend webinars or sessions they have a discount subscription to GrantStation another one GrantStation normally costs which is $99 a year but if you go through TechSoup they will give you it's also a directory of file funding database online but you can if you go through TechSoup to sign up for it you would get oh $99 is a discounted price I'm sorry I just read that $99 is actually what it would be discounted and that would be the annual price for it so way cheaper so for some of these I've been trying to use some things that are free wouldn't cost anything but there are some yes that you can apply you can sign up for that will cost you something either a monthly fee or an annual fee and depending on if you're really trying to find money and and get it maybe worth it to you to pay to keep up with these kind of things GrantStation is great if you just have $100 a year $99 $99 as Donna says and as an investment in applying for potentially thousands and thousands of grants probably worth it to look into I will add a link to that the GrantStation TechSoup onto here potentially yeah I'm making notes now we also have as the last thing I was going to mention Nebraska Access is our databases that we offer through the library commission however we also have just resources here just links that our library staff here reference staff here gather on all sorts of different topics and this is our particular sub page in Nebraska Access for grant resources now this is not specifically all of this is not necessarily for libraries it's just grant resources in general so there may be some things in here that are for individuals, governments municipalities for other things as well but we have a lot of helpful information here that we're working on your grants elements of a grant proposal grants.gov through the federal government so I didn't put everything onto that this grants page that I put together because we have this great gathering of a lot of them kind of trying to highlight some of the ones that you might not know about or the ones that I've looked into and know these really jumped out at me but definitely look through here you'll see something to duplicate here are youth grants the USDA grants etc but you may found find a lot of information here that may be useful to you as well when you're working on your grants we're looking for more grants so keep an eye on that as well so that's our we've reached a little about our time here so anybody have any questions or comments about any of these any thoughts on what I put up here any resources that you know of that you want to share any questions about any of these I've looked into a lot of these so rather than just listing here's everything that says grant the title I've kind of tried to investigate all of these to see how they work what they're like would a library be able to handle this one or yeah just double checking my sessions here okay so I hope this was useful for all of you got you some great ideas trying to just bring attention to some of these ways that you can get some more funding for your library as I said this is a new page it will maybe be tweaked a bit before it goes live live it 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