Grants


 * Grants, Awards & Scholarships **
 * James Madison Award  (ALA) – Deadline: January 18, 2016
 * Eileen Cooke State & Local Madison Award  (ALA) – Deadline: January 18, 2016
 * Will Eisner Graphic Novel Growth Grant  (ALA) – Deadline: January 25, 2016
 * The Big Read  (NEA) – Deadline: January 27, 2016
 * Follett Challenge  – Deadline: January 29, 2016
 * Thinking Money Traveling Exhibition  (ALA) – Deadline: January 29, 2016
 * Coretta Scott King Book Donation Grants  (ALA) – Deadline: January 31, 2016
 * Distinguished Service Award <span style="color: #505050; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> (AASL/Baker and Taylor) – Deadline: February 1, 2016
 * <span style="color: #336699; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">ABC-CLIO Leadership Grant <span style="color: #505050; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> (AASL/ABC-CLIO) – Deadline: February 1, 2016
 * <span style="color: #336699; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Collaborative School Library Award <span style="color: #505050; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> (AASL/Upstart) – Deadline: February 1, 2016
 * <span style="color: #336699; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Distinguished School Administrator Award <span style="color: #505050; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> (AASL/ProQuest) – Deadline: February 1, 2016
 * <span style="color: #336699; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Frances Henne Award <span style="color: #505050; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> (AASL/ABC-CLIO) – Deadline: February 1, 2016
 * <span style="color: #336699; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Innovative Reading Grant <span style="color: #505050; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> (AASL/Capstone) – Deadline: February 1, 2016
 * <span style="color: #336699; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Intellectual Freedom Award <span style="color: #505050; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> (AASL/ProQuest) – Deadline: February 1, 2016
 * <span style="color: #336699; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Bookapalooza Program <span style="color: #505050; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> (ALSC) – Deadline: February 1, 2015
 * <span style="color: #336699; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Roald Dahl’s Miss Honey Social Justice Award <span style="color: #505050; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> (AASL/Penguin Random House) – Deadline: February 1, 2016
 * <span style="color: #336699; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The Ruth Toor Grant for Strong Public School Libraries <span style="color: #505050; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> (AASL/Jay Toor) – Deadline:February 1, 2016
 * <span style="color: #336699; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries <span style="color: #505050; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> (IMLS) – Deadline: February 1, 2016
 * <span style="color: #336699; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program <span style="color: #505050; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> (IMLS) – Deadline: February 2, 2016
 * <span style="color: #336699; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">National Leadership Grants for <span style="color: #505050; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Libraries (IMLS) – Deadline: February 2, 2016
 * <span style="color: #336699; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Rural Gateways <span style="color: #505050; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> (Califa) – Deadline: February 15, 2016
 * <span style="color: #336699; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Historical Records Grant <span style="color: #505050; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> (ISL) – Deadline: February 19, 2016
 * <span style="color: #336699; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">LITA/Ex Libris Student Writing Award <span style="color: #505050; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> (ALA) – Deadline: February 28, 2016
 * <span style="color: #336699; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">ASCLA Awards & Scholarships <span style="color: #505050; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> – Deadline: March 1, 2016
 * <span style="color: #336699; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">ALA Scholarship Program <span style="color: #505050; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> – Deadline: March 1, 2016
 * <span style="color: #336699; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">LITA LIS Scholarships <span style="color: #505050; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> (ALA) – Deadline: March 1, 2016
 * <span style="color: #336699; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Pat Carterette Professional Development Grant <span style="color: #505050; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> (ALA) – Deadline: March 1, 2016
 * <span style="color: #336699; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Diversity Research Grant <span style="color: #505050; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> (ALA) – Deadline: March 1, 2016

[|Aetna Foundation:] Obesity: Learning more about the underlying causes of obesity can inform and shape effective population-based health and wellness programs. For educational grants under $50,000, there is no deadline. Examples of grants we would support include projects and/or studies that identify causes of obesity and potential best practices for addressing [|obesity], such as: Recently funded [|obesity projects]
 * Domestic food policies and their impact on individual food choices
 * The impact of our neighborhoods and the “built environment” on promoting population health and weight loss
 * Assessments of why communities with high rates of food insecurity also are more likely to experience high rates of obesity
 * How children use recreation time
 * How school lunch and food policies impact our children

[|Toshiba/National Science Teachers Association] ExploraVision Awards Program Deadline: February Annually 1-800-EXPLOR9 The ExploraVision program challenges teams of 2-4 students to research scientific principles and current technologies as the basis for designing innovative technologies that could exist in 20 years. Students on the four first-place ExploraVision winning teams will each receive a $10,000 U.S. Series EE Savings Bond valued at maturity. Students on second-place teams will each receive a $5,000 bond valued at maturity. The eight teams will also receive an expenses-paid trip with their families, mentor, and coach to Washington, DC

[|Albert Einstein Distinguished] Educator Fellowship Grants:Educator Grants ($5250 per month for year) for public or private elementary and secondary mathematics, technology, and science classroom teachers to go to Washington and work in public arena for science, math, technology education @http://www.triangle-coalition.org

[|Christopher Columbus Foundation] Middle School Students $25,000 Science-Technology Competition: The Christopher Columbus Awards is a national, community-based science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) program for middle school students. The program challenges the students to work in teams of three to four, with an adult coach, to identify a problem in their community and apply the scientific method to create an innovative solution to that problem.