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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

How to Search for Grant Opportunities for Your Library or Organization

As  personnel, it’s important to know the various ways and places you can search for grant opportunities. Getting to know a sponsor from information that is available online contributes to decisions that your team will make about: how much to ask for, the priorities of the sponsor, and which organizations will make appropriate partners.

These skills will help you and your colleagues to support the creative pursuit of grant funds as well as to assist patrons who want to learn more about grantseeking activities. It is essential to gain practice in interpreting grant guidelines to create fundable grant proposals. This workshop offers practical steps for doing both: searching and learning what to do with the information you find. These two activities performed in a team-based environment will support the collaborative spirit in libraries for getting the job done together. Case studies from the past 16 years of developing awarded grant proposals will show you the hidden art and science of how to do this and outline the steps necessary to create complete and competitive proposals.

Outcomes:

1) Knowledge of using databases for discovering appropriate grant opportunities;
2) Greater understanding of how to read sponsor guidelines and create in-house checklists; and,
3) Visualizations of awarded projects that benefitted from best practices in preparing proposals.

(1.5 hours)

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