Let me know if you are thinking of applying for this and want a sparring partner to help you think about it, read drafts of applications, etc. I plan to attend the webinar on January 9.
Sparks!
Ignition Grants For Libraries And Museums
The
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is accepting applications in
the following grant program:
Sparks!
Ignition Grants for Libraries and Museums
Deadline:
February 1, 2013
Grant
Amount: $10,000 to $25,000
Grant
Period: Up to one year
There
will be two Web conferences to learn more about the program, ask
questions, and listen to the questions and comments of other participants.
Wednesday, December 5, 2012, at 2:30 – 3:30 pm OR
Wednesday,
January 9, 2013, at 2 – 3pm
Then,
using any touchtone phone, call 1-866-299-7945. When prompted to enter a
passcode, enter 7434925#.
Program
Overview:
The
Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries and Museums are a special funding
opportunity within the IMLS National Leadership Grants program. These small
grants encourage libraries, museums, and archives to test and evaluate specific
innovations in the ways they operate and the services they provide. Sparks
Grants support the deployment, testing, and evaluation of promising and groundbreaking
new tools, products, services, or organizational practices. You may propose
activities or approaches that involve risk, as long as the risk is balanced by
significant potential for improvement in the ways libraries and museums serve
their communities.
Successful
proposals will address problems, challenges, or needs of broad relevance to
libraries, museums, and/or archives. A proposed project should test a specific,
innovative response to the identified problem and present a plan to make the
findings widely and openly accessible.
Click
here for more information about this funding opportunity,
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