National Leadership Grants

The summary for the National Leadership Grants grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, 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 as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

National Leadership Grants: National Leadership Grants support projects that have the potential to elevate museum and library practice. The Institute seeks to advance the ability of museums and libraries to preserve culture, heritage, and knowledge while enhancing learning. Successful proposals will have national impact and generate results-new tools, research, models, services, practices, or alliances-that can be widely adapted or replicated to extend the benefit of federal investment. IMLS seeks to fund projects that have the following characteristics: . Strategic Impact-Proposals should address key needs and challenges that face libraries and museums. They should expand the boundaries within which libraries and museums operate, show the potential for far-reaching impact, and influence practice throughout the museum and/or library communities. . Innovation-Proposals should demonstrate a thorough understanding of current practice and knowledge about the project area and show how the project will advance the state of the art of museum and library service. . Collaboration-While partners are not required in all NLG categories, the Institute has found that involving carefully chosen partners with complementary competencies and resources can create powerful synergies that extend project impact. Proposals should show understanding of the challenges of collaboration and propose means for addressing them. Collaborative planning grants are also available to enable project teams from more than one institution to work together to plan a project for a National Leadership Grant.

Federal Grant Title:	National Leadership Grants
Federal Agency Name:	Institute of Museum and Library Services
Grant Categories:	Arts Humanities
Type of Opportunity:	Discretionary
Funding Opportunity Number:	NLG-FY08
Type of Funding:	Grant
CFDA Numbers:	45.312
CFDA Descriptions:	National Leadership Grants
Current Application Deadline:	No deadline provided
Original Application Deadline:	Feb 01, 2008
Posted Date:	Nov 01, 2007
Creation Date:	Nov 01, 2007
Archive Date:	Mar 02, 2008
Total Program Funding:
Maximum Federal Grant Award:	$1,000,000
Minimum Federal Grant Award:	$5,000
Expected Number of Awards:
Cost Sharing or Matching:	Yes

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: County governments Public and State controlled institutions of higher education Private institutions of higher education State governments Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) City or township governments Independent school districts Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Additional Information on Eligibility: SEE COMPLETE ELIGIBILITY INFORMATION IN GUIDELINES DOCUMENT. Eligibility for Libraries An applicant must: . be either a unit of state or local government or a private nonprofit organization that has tax-exempt status under the Internal Revenue Code; . be located in one of the 50 states of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, or the Republic of Palau; and . qualify as one of the six types of organizations listed below: 1. A library or a parent organization, such as a school district, a municipality, a state agency, or an academic institution, that is responsible for the administration of a library. Eligible libraries include public libraries, elementary and secondary school libraries, college and university libraries, research libraries and archives that are not an integral part of an institution of higher education and that make publicly available library services and materials that are suitable for scholarly research and not otherwise available, and private or special libraries that have been deemed eligible to participate in this program by the state in which the library is located. 2. An academic or administrative unit, such as a graduate school of library and information science, that is part of an institution of higher education through which it would make an application. 3. A digital library, if it makes library materials publicly available and provides library services, including selection, organization, description, reference, and preservation, under the supervision of at least one permanent professional staff librarian. 4. A library agency that is an official agency of a state or other unit of government and is charged by the law governing it with the extension and development of public library services within its jurisdiction. 5. A library consortium that is a local, statewide, regional, interstate, or international cooperative association of library entities that provides for the systematic and effective coordination of the resources of eligible libraries, as defined above, and information centers that work to improve the services delivered to the clientele of these libraries. 6. A library association that exists on a permanent basis, serves libraries or library professionals on a national, regional, state, or local level, and engages in activities designed to advance the well-being of libraries and the library profession. Eligibility for Museums An applicant must be either a unit of state or local government or a private nonprofit organization that has tax-exempt status under the Internal Revenue Code; be located in one of the 50 states of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, or the Republic of Palau; and qualify as one of the following three types of organizations: 1. A museum that, using a professional staff, . is organized on a permanent basis for essentially educational or aesthetic purposes; . owns or uses tangible objects, either animate or inanimate; . cares for these objects; and . exhibits these objects to the general public on a regular basis through facilities that it owns or operates. 2. An organization or association that engages in activities designed to advance the well-being of museums and the museum profession. 3. An institution of higher education, including public and nonprofit universities.
Link to Full Grant Announcement: Information not provided
Grant Announcement Contact: Susan Malbin, Senior Program Officer
Phone: 202/653-4768 [email protected] [email protected]
Similar Government Grants: • National Leadership Grants for Museums (2024); • National Leadership Grants for Libraries (2024); • National Leadership Grants for Museums (2023); • National Leadership Grants for Libraries (2023); • National Leadership Grants for Libraries (2022); • Connecting to Collections - State Planning Grants; • Build and Share Knowledge of Good Practice; • Connecting to Collections Statewide Grants
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