Collaborative grant-seeking : a practical guide for librarians

de Farber, Bess G., 1956- (author.).

Summary:

A collaborative approach to grant seeking can stimulate and reshape the culture of your library organization. The activities of developing a successful grants program can yield enormous dividends for the benefit of your staff, patrons, and community. Collaborative Grant-Seeking will share insights for those who want to access grant funding without reinventing the wheel. Based on years of practical grant writing and collaboration development experience, this resource provides a guide for setting up a library grant-seeking program, and for combining forces with community partners to increase grant funding to libraries. Venturing into the grants world can be scary and unpredictable. This book offers detailed strategies and practical steps to establish a supportive and collaborative environment that creates the capacity to consistently develop fundable proposals, and gives readers the confidence needed to make grant- seeking activities commonplace within libraries. Collaborative Grant-Seeking will share featured topics unavailable in other grant writing publications, such as: interpreting sponsor guidelines identifying appropriate funding programs determining the feasibility of project ideas asset-based (vs. need-based) proposal development strategies actual examples of successful and unusual library projects initiating and sustaining collaborative relationships.

Record details

ISBN: 9781442263260
ISBN: 1442263261
ISBN: 9781442263277
ISBN: 144226327X
Physical Description: xv, 147 pages ; 28 cm.
Publisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]
Copyright: �2016

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The pursuit of grant funds -- Collaborative concepts and practical approaches -- Creating a library grant-seeking program -- Searching for external grant opportunities -- Ways to grow a culture of grantsmanship -- Strategies for completing application components -- Grant writing tips and potential errors to avoid.