Title:
National Leadership Grants
Funding Source:
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Scope:
National Leadership Grants (NLG) 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.
IMLS welcomes proposals that promote the skills necessary to develop 21st century communities, citizens, and workers.
Note: Below are listed some projects that were awarded in 2009
* The CALTA (Culture and Literacy through Art) project, developed by the Nassau County Museum of Art with the Queensborough Community College, will build on a long-standing partnership to plan an innovative, multi-generational, visual literacy program using visual art as a catalyst for literacy and critical thinking in adult English Language Learners.
* The Boston TV News Digital Library: 1960-2000, developed by The WGBH Media Library and Archives, will be the first online resource offering a city’s commercial, noncommercial, and community cable TV news heritage to educators and the public. The project, created in collaboration with Northeast Historic Film, Cambridge Community Television, and the Boston Public Library, will establish a new collaborative model for local collecting institutions, create modules for clarifying legal issues relating to TV news collections, and provide curricular context for the study of urban history in classrooms and community institutions.
* The Floral Report Card, a program created in collaboration with the State Botanical Garden of Georgia, North Carolina Botanical Garden, Northwestern University, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, and the University of Washington, will use gardens, citizen science, and technology to teach and engage students with one of the most urgent contemporary issues: climate change.
Areas:
Successful proposals will have national impact and generate results—new tools, research, models, services, practices, or alliances.
Applications may be submitted in the following categories:
Advancing Digital Resources,
Research, Demonstration,
and Library and Museum Collaboration Grants.
<>Collaborative Planning Grants are also available in any of the four categories to enable project teams from more than one institution to work together to plan a project for a National Leadership Grant.
Funds:
$50,000 - $1,000,000
up to $100,000 for planning grants
Up to three years
1:1 for requests over $250,000. except research projects.
Cost sharing of at least one-third is encouraged for requests under $250,000 and for research projects.
Deadline:
February 1st 2010
Before your grant proposal is submitted, the district grants office will be available to review your application, answer any questions, and help you with technical difficulties. Please contact us after reviewing the guidelines if you are planning on submitting this grant.
Please note: Dr. Harper-Marinick is required to review all outgoing proposals as well as the district grants office and your campus president. The district grants interest packet contains grant related information, and includes procedures. |
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