Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries and Museums

The summary for the Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries and Museums Federal Grant is detailed below. It contains information such as the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number, who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, important deadlines, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed in the Grant Announcement Contact section. If these sections are incomplete, please visit the website of the government agency that is offering this grant.


	Federal Grant Title:	Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries and Museums
	CFDA Number:	45.312
	CFDA Description:	National Leadership Grants
	Federal Agency Name:	Institute of Museum and Library Services
	Category of Funding Activity:	Arts Education Humanities
	Category Explanation:	Information not provided
	Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
	Funding Opportunity Number:	SPARKS-FY11
	Document Type:	Modification to Previous Grants Notice
	Funding Instrument Type:	Grant
	Posted Date:	Sep 09, 2010
	Creation Date:	Oct 06, 2010
	Original Closing Date for Applications:	Nov 15, 2010
	Current Closing Date for Applications:	Nov 15, 2010
	Archive Date:	Dec 15, 2010
	Expected Number of Awards:	Information not provided
	Estimated Total Program Funding:	Information not provided
	Federal Grant Award Ceiling:	$25,000
	Federal Grant Award Floor:	$10,000
	Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	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.
Grant Description: 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.
Link to Full Grant Announcement: http://www.imls.gov/applicants/grants/sparksignition.shtm
Grant Announcement Contact: Chuck Thomas, Senior Program Officer Office of Library Services Phone: 202/653-4663
cthomas@imls.gov [cthomas@imls.gov]
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