Library Awards and Grants by Date Added

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Learning Labs in Libraries and Museums
June 15, 2012
These grants will support the planning and designing of up to thrity Learning Labs in libraries and museums throughout the country. The Labs are intended to engage middle- and high-school youth in mentor-led, interest-based, youth-centered, collaborative learning using digital and traditional media. Grantees will be required to participate, in-person and online, in a community of practice that will provide technical assistance, networking, and cross-project learning. Projects are expected to provide prototypes for the field and be based on current research about digital media and youth learning.

Learning Labs In Libraries And Museums
June 15, 2012
Learning Labs in Libraries and Museums will support the planning and designing of up to 30 Learning Labs in libraries and museums throughout the country. The Labs are intended to engage middle- and high-school youth in mentor-led, interest-based, youth-centered, collaborative learning using digital and traditional media. Grantees will be required to participate, in-person and online, in a community of practice that will provide technical assistance, networking, and cross-project learning. Projects are expected to provide prototypes for the field and be based on current research about digital media and youth learning.

Art Works Grants
August 09, 2012
Art Works encourages and supports the following four outcomes: creation, engagement, learning, and livability.

Estela and Raul Mora Award
August 15, 2012
The Estela and Raul Mora Award is presented annually to the most exemplary program celebrating El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children’s Day/Book Day).

Best Buy Community Grants Program
July 01, 2012
Through the Community Grants program, Best Buy teams across the United States select non-profit organizations that give teens access to opportunities through technology to help them excel in school and develop twenty-first century skills. This year, the Best Buy Children’s Foundation will give $2.8 million in Community Grants. Grant amounts will average $4,000–$6,000 and will not exceed $10,000.

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.

Rockwell Collins Charitable Corporation Grants
Deadline: ongoing
Rockwell Collins makes charitable contributions to a variety of nonprofit organizations in the United States and around the world. We make grants available for programs and initiatives. Our giving priorities include education with an emphasis in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), and arts and culture, with an emphasis in youth development.

Verizon Foundation Grants
Deadline: ongoing
The Verizon Foundation provides support to 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations within the United States. The Foundation supports the following funding priorities: literacy, education, healthcare, and sustainability. The Verizon Foundation does not have a range for grant amounts. Many factors, including the specific program or project to be funded and the organization making the request, determine funding amounts.

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.