[Michlib-l] Grant Opportunity: Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries

[Reish, Karren (MDE)]

Please see below for a grant opportunity from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Karren Reish
Library Grants Coordinator
Library of Michigan
517-241-0021
reishk at michigan.gov<mailto:reishk at michigan.gov>



Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries
Institute of Museum and Library Services

http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=280610

Current Closing Date for Applications: Feb 1, 2016

Estimated Total Program Funding: $250,000

Award Ceiling: $25,000

Award Floor: $10,000

Expected Number of Awards: 10

To be eligible as an applicant for this 2016 Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries Program, you must: *be either a unit of State or local government or be a private nonprofit organization that has tax-exempt status under the Internal Revenue Code.

These small grants encourage libraries and archives to test and evaluate specific innovations in the ways they operate and the services they provide. Sparks Grants support the deployment, testing, and evaluation of promising and groundbreaking new tools, products, services, or organizational practices. You may propose activities or approaches that involve risk, as long as the risk is balanced by significant potential for improvement in the ways libraries and archives serve their communities. Successful proposals will address problems, challenges, or needs of broad relevance to libraries and/or archives. A proposed project should test a specific, innovative response to the identified problem and present a plan to make the findings widely and openly accessible. To maximize the public benefit from federal investments in these grants, the Sparks! program will fund only projects with the following characteristics: Broad Potential Impact-You should identify a specific problem or need that is relevant to many libraries and/or archives and propose a testable and measurable solution. Proposals must demonstrate a thorough understanding of current issues and practices in the project's focus area and discuss its potential impact within libraries and/or archives. Proposed innovations should be widely adoptable or adaptable. Significant Innovation-The proposed solution to the identified problem must offer strong potential for non-incremental, significant advancement in the operation of libraries and/or archives. You must explain how the proposed activity differs from current practices or takes advantage of an unexplored opportunity, and the potential benefit to be gained by this innovation.
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