National Leadership Grants for Libraries
The summary for the National Leadership Grants for Libraries 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.
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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 for Libraries: National Leadership Grants for Libraries (NLG) support projects that address challenges faced by the library and archive fields and that have the potential to advance practice in those fields. Successful proposals will generate results such as new tools, research findings, models, services, practices, or alliances that can be widely used, adapted, scaled, or replicated to extend the benefits of federal investment.
For FY16, there are two National Leadership Grants for Libraries funding opportunities with two separate deadlines. In addition to the opportunity described in this Notice of Funding Opportunity, an additional NLG funding opportunity was announced in September 2015 with an application submission due date in October 2015.
For FY16, there are two National Leadership Grants for Libraries funding opportunities with two separate deadlines. In addition to the opportunity described in this Notice of Funding Opportunity, an additional NLG funding opportunity was announced in September 2015 with an application submission due date in October 2015.
Federal Grant Title: | National Leadership Grants for Libraries |
Federal Agency Name: | Institute of Museum and Library Services |
Grant Categories: | Arts Humanities |
Type of Opportunity: | Discretionary |
Funding Opportunity Number: | NLG-LIBRARIES-FY16-2 |
Type of Funding: | Grant |
CFDA Numbers: | 45.312 |
CFDA Descriptions: | National Leadership Grants |
Current Application Deadline: | Jun 1, 2016 |
Original Application Deadline: | Jun 1, 2016 |
Posted Date: | Dec 21, 2015 |
Creation Date: | Dec 21, 2015 |
Archive Date: | Jul 1, 2016 |
Total Program Funding: | $12,000,000 |
Maximum Federal Grant Award: | $2,000,000 |
Minimum Federal Grant Award: | $10,000 |
Expected Number of Awards: | 20 |
Cost Sharing or Matching: | Yes |
- Applicants Eligible for this Grant
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
- Additional Information on Eligibility
- To be eligible as an applicant for this National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program, you must:
be either a unit of State or local government or be 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 of America, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, 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:
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, public 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. Research libraries must be under the supervision of at least one permanent professional staff librarian and be either generally recognized as possessing unique, scholarly research materials and services that are made available to the public, or able to demonstrate that such is the case when submitting an application to IMLS
a private library or other special library, but only if the State in which it is located determines that the library should be considered a library for purposes of Library Services and Technology (see 20 U.S.C. 9121-9165)
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 application
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
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
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 or
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
Note to applicants: In order to receive an IMLS award, you must be in compliance with applicable requirements and be in good standing on all active IMLS awards. - Link to Full Grant Announcement
- https://www.imls.gov/grants/available/national-leadership-grants-libraries
- Grant Announcement Contact
- Tim Carrigan
Senior Library Program Officer
202-653-4639
[email protected]
Trevor Owens
Senior Library Program Officer
202-653-4654
[email protected]
Sandra Toro
Senior Library Program Officer
202-653-4662
[email protected]
Sarah Fuller
Library Program Officer
202-653-4783
[email protected]
[email protected]
Institute of Museum and Library Services 202-653-4744 - Similar Government Grants
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