Library Awards and Grants by Deadline

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Dollar General Literacy Foundation Summer Reading Grants
February 28, 2012
Dollar General Literacy Foundation Summer Reading Grants provide funding to local nonprofit organizations and libraries to help with the implementation or expansion of summer reading programs. Programs must target Pre-K through 12th grade students who are new readers, below grade level readers, or readers with learning disabilities. Maximum grant amount is $3,000.

Dollar General Literacy Foundation Adult Literacy Grants
February 28, 2012
Dollar General Literacy Foundation Adult Literacy Grants award funding to nonprofit organizations that provide direct service to adults in need of literacy assistance. Organizations must provide help in one of the following instructional areas: adult basic education, General Education Diploma preparation, or English language acquisition. Maximum grant amount is $15,000.

Dollar General Literacy Foundation Family Literacy Grants
February 28, 2012
The Dollar General Literacy Foundation Family Literacy Grants provide funding to family literacy service providers. The Foundation uses the federal government’s definition of family literacy when reviewing grant applications. Organizations applying for funding must have the following four components: adult education instruction, children’s education, Parent and Child Together Time (PACT), and parenting classes. Maximum grant amount is $15,000.

Computer Science Collaboration Project Grants
March 01, 2012
The Computer Science Collaboration Project (CSCP) is offering mini-grant funding as an incentive for collaborative projects to efficiently increase the participation of Hispanic/Latino(a) K–12 youth in computer science.

MetLife Foundation Community-Police Partnership Awards
March 11, 2012
MetLife Foundation and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) are partnering for the eleventh year to recognize, sustain, and share the work of innovative partnerships between community groups and police to promote neighborhood safety and revitalization.

America’s Music
March 14, 2012
America’s Music is a six-week series of public programs created by Tribeca Film Institute in partnership with the American Library Association Public Programs Office and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and in consultation with the Society for American Music. The programs feature documentary screenings and scholar-led discussions of 20th century American popular music. Libraries and non-profits related to music and music history can apply to receive a $2,500 grant to support the series.

E Pluribus Unum Prizes
March 15, 2012
The E Pluribus Unum Prizes are a national awards program that provides prizes annually to exceptional initiatives that promote immigrant integration. In 2012, the program will award three $50,000 prizes and one Corporate Leadership Award.

Ezra Jack Keats Minigrant Program
March 15, 2012
Public school libraries and public libraries that host programs encouraging literacy and creativity in children can apply for an Ezra Jack Keats Minigrant of $500. Programs focusing on the work of Ezra Jack Keats are welcome, but not required.

Eisner Prize for Intergenerational Excellence
March 16, 2012
The Eisner Prize for Intergenerational Excellence is a $100,000 cash award given annually by The Eisner Foundation. The Eisner Prize is designed to recognize excellence by an individual or a non-profit organization in uniting multiple generations, especially seniors and youth, to bring about positive and lasting changes in their community.

ALTAFF’s Best Friends Awards
April 02, 2012
The ALTAFF Best Friends Awards recognize Friends around the country for their print and electronic materials that promote the group and its special programs and projects. The awards do not evaluate the type or scope of Friends programs, rather the printed materials that promote programs and special projects coordinated by the Friends.

ALA Annual Diversity Research Grants
April 30, 2012
Continuing the American Library Association’s commitment to diversity, the ALA Office for Diversity began sponsorship of a Diversity Research Grant program in 2002 to address critical gaps in the knowledge of diversity issues within library and information science.

Financial Education Programs Grants
April 30, 2012
The Foundation for Financial Planning awards grants to non-profit organizations for pro bono advice and community outreach activities that help people take control of their financial lives by connecting the financial planning community to people in need.

Native American Library Services: Basic Grants
May 01, 2012
The Native American Library Services Basic Grant is noncompetitive and distributed in equal amounts among eligible applicants. Basic Grants are available to support existing library operations and to maintain core library services. The Education/Assessment Option is supplemental to the Basic Grants.

Literary Arts Touring Grants
May 01, 2012
South Arts, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, is offering writer fee support grants for literary presentations. These grants support literary arts presenting organizations for engagements by guest writers from outside the presenter’s state. Only nonprofit and governmental presenting organizations in South Arts’ nine-state region are eligible to apply.

Dollar General Literacy Foundation Youth Literacy Grants
May 16, 2012
Dollar General Literacy Foundation Youth Literacy Grants provide funding to schools, public libraries, and nonprofit organizations to help students who are below grade level or experiencing difficulty reading.Maximum grant amount is $4,000.

American Honda Foundation Grants
Deadline: ongoing
The American Honda Foundation engages in grant making that reflects the basic tenets, beliefs and philosophies of Honda companies, which are characterized by the following qualities: imaginative, creative, youthful, forward-thinking, scientific, humanistic and innovative.

Brinker International Foundation Grants
Deadline: ongoing
Giving back to the communities where we live and work is one of Brinker International’s core values. With a diverse variety of local fundraising activities and corporate giving programs, Brinker and its restaurants contribute more than $3 million annually to a number of worthwhile charities.

Charles Lafitte Foundation Grants
Deadline: ongoing
The mission of the Charles Lafitte Foundation (CLF) is to provide for and support inventive and effective ways of helping people help themselves and others around them to lead healthy, satisfying and enriched lives.

Office Depot Foundation Grants
Deadline: ongoing
The Office Depot Foundation’s funding focus includes making a difference in children’s lives, building communities, and disaster relief. The majority of grants issued are in the vicinity of $1,000 and are supported by in-kind donations when inventory allows.

Pepsi Refresh Project
Deadline: ongoing
The Pepsi Refresh Project makes available millions of dollars to be granted through an online, democratic voting process to help projects designed to improve communities. The grant program consists of four categories: arts and music; communities; education; and the Pepsi Challenge. Ideas should be feasible and able to be completed twelve months from the date you receive the first funds.

Poets & Writers Funding for Readings/Workshops
Deadline: ongoing
Each year, Poets & Writers Readings/Workshops program supports hundreds of writers participating in events in large cities and small towns throughout New York and California, as well as in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Seattle, New Orleans, Tucson, and Washington D.C

Praxair Foundation Library Links Grants
Deadline: ongoing
Library Links grants assist libraries in upgrading their technology, acquiring new materials. or initiating innovative programs. All proposals should describe projects that serve the needs of the community at large.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation Grants
Deadline: ongoing
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation supports new ideas about how to engage children and youth in learning and new ways to bring together community-based systems that promote learning.

Wish You Well Foundation Grants
Deadline: ongoing
The Wish You Well Foundation supports family literacy in the United States by fostering and promoting the development and expansion of new and existing literacy and educational programs.