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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

Intensive Grantseeking Workshop for Libraries or Organizations

This full-day, interactive workshop will establish a collective understanding about how to create and sustain a thriving grantseeking culture your library or organization. The workshop will present concepts related to asset-based community development that form the foundation for collaborative grantseeking activities, which:

• Generate innovative project ideas;
• Engage staff members who are interested in a variety of grantseeking activities;
• Encourage partnerships within and external to the library or organization to leverage existing resources;
• Demonstrate how to identify, collect, and share funding opportunities that match up with the interests of employees;
• Understand why proposals are declined;
• Offer ways to create buy-in and transparency within the library and promote a grantseeking culture;
• Encourage continuous learning about how the field is changing, and where it is going;
• Uncover potential grant project ideas that can be developed and planned; and,
• Dissect the application development process from initiation of the project idea to the submission of the proposal package.

(6 to 7 hours)

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