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Bess and Sophia are thrilled to announce the launch of our new self-paced eLearning course: Collaborative Grantseeking for Library Staff: A Step-by-Step, Practical Course for Creating Fundable Proposals — Now available through the American Library Association (ALA).

Created for professionals across academic, public, and nonprofit organizations, this self-paced course moves beyond grant writing to build your own sustainable collaborative grantseeking program.

You’ll gain proven tools to use immediately — including video lessons, targeted readings, complete funded grant proposals, reusable templates, and activities that translate theory into action.

TRAINING WORKSHOP

Creating Fundable Grant Proposals in Libraries and Organizations

How do you go from an idea to a successful project within a library where resources are limited and competing priorities make certain projects unattainable? Do you know any library employees who are eager to acquire grant funds to support creative projects that otherwise could not happen without external funds? Are there questions about where and how to get started, and what steps can prevent folks from reinventing the wheel? Do you think there are enough interested employees who want to start a coordinated grantseeking effort?

Building on 16 years of developing workflows and systems for managing all aspects of library grant–seeking, this grant webinar shares best practices including checklist examples for guidelines and workflows, funding alerts describing funding opportunities for libraries, and templates for sharing submitted and pending proposals with library employees. Behind the scenes stories will divulge unusual ways ideas were generated for fundable projects, and how ideas developed through engagement with a diverse array of experts and assets. Case studies share details of what happened after project teams received their awards, and ways by which teams managed to complete projects successfully. Featured projects highlight a variety of grant-funded activities including outreach, digitization, training, acquisition of materials, planning and collaborations with diverse partners and for diverse materials.

Outcomes:

1) Knowledge of where to find funding opportunities for library-related grantseeking;
2) Greater understanding of the steps involved to create successful grantseeking efforts; and,
3) Visualizations of how grant projects originated and how they developed into fundable grant proposals.

(1.5 hours)

Yes! I would like to learn more about this workshop.

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