Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries and Museums
The summary for the Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries and Museums grant is detailed below.
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Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries and Museums: The citizens and communities served by libraries, archives, and museums now are offered an increasing variety of choice for information sources and services. In this environment, cultural heritage organizations are challenged to respond to changing user needs and expectations, and to make more productive use of the money, staff, and other resources they are given to serve their users. Innovation will be a key determinant of their success.The IMLS Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries and Museums are a new IMLS funding opportunity within the National Leadership Grants program. These grants encourage libraries, archives, and museums to challenge existing assumptions about how they operate and the services they provide. These small grants support the deployment, testing, and evaluation of promising and groundbreaking new tools, products, services, or organizational practices. Applicants may propose activities or approaches that involve risk, as long as the risk is balanced by significant potential for improvement in the ways cultural heritage institutions serve their communities.Successful proposals will address problems, challenges, or needs of broad relevance to libraries, archives, and/or museums, will test innovative responses to these problems, and will make the findings of these tests widely and openly accessible.
Federal Grant Title: | Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries and Museums |
Federal Agency Name: | Institute of Museum and Library Services |
Grant Categories: | Arts Education Humanities |
Type of Opportunity: | Discretionary |
Funding Opportunity Number: | SPARKS-FY11 |
Type of Funding: | Grant |
CFDA Numbers: | 45.312 |
CFDA Descriptions: | National Leadership Grants |
Current Application Deadline: | Nov 15, 2010 |
Original Application Deadline: | Nov 15, 2010 |
Posted Date: | Sep 09, 2010 |
Creation Date: | Oct 06, 2010 |
Archive Date: | Dec 15, 2010 |
Total Program Funding: | |
Maximum Federal Grant Award: | $25,000 |
Minimum Federal Grant Award: | $10,000 |
Expected Number of Awards: | |
Cost Sharing or Matching: | No |
- Applicants Eligible for this Grant
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
- Additional Information on Eligibility
- See http://www.imls.gov/applicants/guidelines/sparks_1.shtm#elig for specific eligibility requirements for libraries, archives, and museums.
- Link to Full Grant Announcement
- Information not provided
- Grant Announcement Contact
- Chuck Thomas, Senior Program Officer Office of Library Services Phone: 202/653-4663
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