The year has flown by and many are already looking ahead to 2023 project planning. We’ve kept our eyes open for upcoming grant opportunities and have compiled a few of interest. If during the grant proposal process you need advice on writing a project profile, workflow, or pricing statement, our account representative team is happy to assist.
Collection Equity Awards
National Library of Medicine
- Location: NNLM Region 5: Alaska, American Samoa, California, Guam, Hawaii, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nevada, Northern Mariana Islands, Oregon, Palau, Washington
- Maximum Award Amount: $1,500 with 7 awards available
- Open To: Network Member Organizations
- Period of Performance: May 1, 2023 – April 30, 2024
- Deadline: February 21, 2023
From their site: “The National Network of Libraries of Medicine Region 5 under cooperative agreement with the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), announces the availability of funding through Collection Equity Awards to fund collection development that amplifies diverse voices writing on health/medical topics or that include a health or medical issue as an integral narrative theme. Such collection development efforts are important to ensure equitable access to health information and promote health literacy and support programmatic outreach in under-resourced communities.
The Awards are designed to help build collections that are reflective of voices of the communities served which may be revealed through different genres such as graphic medicine, fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, Young Adult, manuscripts (published and unpublished), oral histories and film. Expanding diverse voices in libraries (all types), public health agencies, academic programs, or community organizations ensures collection equity and supports health literacy by illuminating health issues either common, or conversely, unique to underserved populations in the region.“
Cultural and Community Resilience
National Endowment for the Humanities
- Location: United States
- Maximum Award Amount: $150,000
- Open To: Organizations
- Expected Output: Digital Surrogate Collections; Oral History Collections; Physical Archival Collections; Plans for Community Documentation
- Period of Performance: Up to two years
- Deadline: January 12, 2023
- Expected Notification Date: August 31, 2023
- Project Start Date: October 1, 2023 – September 1, 2024
From their site: “The CCR program contributes to the continuity of cultural heritage and its availability for future generations by supporting community-based projects that empower people to define, collect, and use cultural and historical resources. In addition, the CCR program recognizes the importance of documenting contemporary experiences with climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic and of deepening our understanding of their social, economic, and emotional impact on individuals and communities.“
Documentary Heritage Communities Program
Government of Canada
- Location: Canada
- Open To: Organizations
- Period of Performance: Up to two years
- Deadline: January 12, 2023
- Expected Notification Date: August 31, 2023
From their site: “Access and awareness: Our first objective is to increase access to, and awareness of their holdings. Projects related to this goal include: Collection-, catalogue- and access-based management (systematic, planned and documented process of maintaining and preserving collections, such as activities to enhance the archival standard descriptions of collections in order to increase physical, intellectual and bibliographical access to them). Commemorative projects (initiatives that celebrate historical figures, places, events and accomplishments of local, regional and/or national significance). Digital file conversion (from one format or media into another) and digitization for access purposes. Development (research, design and production) of virtual and physical exhibitions, including travelling exhibits that circulate to one or more venues.
Improving capacity for preservation: Our second objective is to increase their capacity to keep and preserve Canada’s documentary heritage. Projects related to this goal include: conservation and preservation treatment; conversion and digitization for preservation purposes, including recording interviews for oral history projects; increased digital preservation capacity (excluding digital infrastructure related to day-to-day activities); training and workshops that improve professional competencies and build the organization’s capacity; development of standards, performance and other measurement activities.“
National Digital Newspaper Program
National Endowment for the Humanities
- Location: United States
- Maximum Award Amount: $325,000
- Open To: Organizations
- Expected Output: Digitized Newspapers; Web Resources
- Period of Performance: Two years
- Deadline: January 12, 2023
- Expected Notification Date: August 31, 2023
- Project Start Date: September 1, 2023
From their site: “The National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress (LC) to create a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1690 and 1963, from all the states and U.S. jurisdictions. This searchable database will be permanently maintained at LC and will be freely accessible online (see the Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website). The accompanying US Newspaper Directory of bibliographic and holdings information on the website directs users to newspaper titles available in all types of formats. During the course of its partnership with NEH, LC will also digitize and contribute to the NDNP database a significant number of newspaper pages drawn from its own collections.“
Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions
National Endowment for the Humanities
- Location: United States
- Maximum Award Amount: $10,000
- Open To: Organizations
- Expected Output: Preservation and Collections Care Workshops; Preservation Assessment Reports; Preservation Supplies/Equipment
- Period of Performance: Up to 18 months
- Deadline: January 12, 2023
- Expected Notification Date: August 31, 2023
- Project Start Date: September 1, 2023 – December 1, 2023
From their site: “Preservation Assistance Grants help small and mid-sized institutions — such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, cultural organizations, town and county records offices, and colleges and universities — improve their ability to preserve and care for their significant humanities collections. These may include special collections of books and journals, archives and manuscripts, prints and photographs, moving images, sound recordings, architectural and cartographic records, decorative and fine art objects, textiles, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, furniture, historical objects, and digital materials.”
Technology Equity Awards
National Library of Medicine
- Location: NNLM Region 5: serves Alaska, California, Hawai’i, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and U.S. Territories and Freely Associated States in the Pacific.
- Maximum Award Amount: $5,000 with 6 awards available
- Open To: Network Member Organizations
- Period of Performance: May 1, 2023 – April 30, 2024
- Deadline: February 21, 2023
From their site: “The mission of the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) is to advance the progress of medicine and improve the public’s health by providing U.S. researchers, health professionals, public health workforce, educators, and the public with equal access to biomedical and health information resources and data. The Technology Equity Award seeks to address one or more of the following aims from the NNLM Region 5 cooperative agreement: Support Digital Access, Digital Health Literacy, and Digital Health Equity ensuring that a variety of users, such as affiliated and unaffiliated health professionals, researchers, librarians and the public have equal access to, and the skills to benefit from, biomedical and health information; Administer funding awards to support a highly trained workforce for biomedical and health information resources and data, improve health literacy, and increase health equity through information.”
Technology Improvement Awards
National Library of Medicine
- Location: NNLM Region 7: serves Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont.
- Maximum Award Amount: $10,000 with 4 awards available
- Open To: Network Member Organizations
- Period of Performance: May 1, 2023 – April 30, 2024
- Deadline: December 15, 2023
From their site: “The mission of the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) is to advance the progress of medicine and improve the public’s health by providing U.S. researchers, health professionals, public health workforce, educators, and the public with equal access to biomedical and health information resources and data. The Technology Equity Award seeks to address one or more of the following aims from the NNLM Region 5 cooperative agreement: Support Digital Access, Digital Health Literacy, and Digital Health Equity ensuring that a variety of users, such as affiliated and unaffiliated health professionals, researchers, librarians and the public have equal access to, and the skills to benefit from, biomedical and health information; Administer funding awards to support a highly trained workforce for biomedical and health information resources and data, improve health literacy, and increase health equity through information.
The award’s primary aim is to focus on upgrading, replacing or adopting technologies that will increase access to health information, and/or strengthen communications and connectivity for health, i.e. infrastructure, and/or facilitate the acquisition of mobile technologies to assist health professionals in providing services at point of need. The programs are intended to help a variety of users, with a focus on minority and other underrepresented populations and the health professionals who serve them, make the most effective use of information and decision-support resources that hold the promise of promoting healthy behaviors, preventing costly and debilitating illness, and improving health outcomes when disease occurs.“
Not see any that fit? Keep in mind that many more grant opportunities exist, and a great place to start is your state library website. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us at 1.800.288.1265, visit us online at www.bslw.com, or send an email to info@bslw.com.
