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Featured service: CMLE Grants page

Money, Money, MoneyWho doesn’t love free money??  With 15 different grants to choose from, our CMLE Grants page is a wonderful resource to get extra money for an innovative project or idea for your library, school, or classroom. Here are just a few. Make sure to check out the rest on our page!

  • AASL Innovative Reading Grant: Funding for programs for children which motivates and encourages reading, especially with struggling readers.
  • Adopt-a-classroom: Donors partner with teachers for funding critical resources and needs for the classroom.
  • Arthur Vining Davis Foundation: Professional development funding.
  • Digital Wish Grants: Submit a technology-based lesson plan for a chance to win over 50 different technology grants.
  • DonorsChoose.org: Post classroom project requests on DonorsChoose.org. “Citizen philanthropists” can browse project requests and give any amount to the one that inspires them.

Plus several more to check out here.  There are grants for all library and school types on our page.

 

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$50,000 Grant Opportunity!

logo_bcbs_mnThe information in this post was provided by Bruce Pomerantz, State Library Services

This is the second consecutive year that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota will provide each of three Minnesota public libraries with a $50,000 grant that supports and expands a public library’s role as a leader in addressing issues that too often prevent people from living healthier lives. The news release states strong consideration will be given to a public library partnering with local community organizations. While the applicant must be a public library, local partners may assist a public library with conceiving the project and writing the application.The Foundation will strive for geographic reach around the state.

The last day for application submission is April 9, 2013.

Bruce Pomerantz, Library Development Specialist
State Library Services – D29
Minnesota Department of Education
1500 Highway 36 W.
Roseville, MN 55113
Phone: 651-582-8890
Email: bruce.pomerantz@state.mn.us

 
 
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Round 3 of MN Reflections

Help us add collections to Minnesota Reflections

The Minnesota Digital Library will accept applications for digitization projects until March 28, 2008. You may submit your applications anytime before then. Projects are to digitize original photos, negatives, artwork, letters, journals, documents and maps.We spend our grant dollars to do the digitization work. Contributing organizations choose the projects and complete applications. Once our digitization work is complete, the contributors then fill in an Excel spreadsheet with information on each item (metadata work).Any organization that holds historic objects and is interested in doing a project should contact Marian Rengel, Minnesota Digital Library outreach coordinator, very soon to talk over the details. (mrrengel@stcloudstate.edu; 320-308-5625)In Rounds 1 and 2, conducted since August, the MDL committed to digitizing 1,690 photos, 18,770 document pages, and 1,009 maps. These projects, along with transcriptions for many of the documents, will spend 80 percent of our grant dollars. We still have ample funding for large and small projects.Our call for project proposals, which describes what we are looking for this year and which contains the application, is available at
http://www.mndigital.org/news_events/news_events.htm#phase4proposals

Marian Rengel
Outreach Coordinator
Minnesota Digital Library Coalition
St. Cloud State University
Office (320) 308-5625
Fax (320) 308-4778 (shared)Visit the Minnesota Digital Library’s collection site at http://reflections.mndigital.org/ and our home at http://www.mndigital.org/