A collaborative approach to grant
seeking can stimulate and reshape the culture of your library
organization. The exciting and rewarding activities of developing a
successful grants program can yield enormous dividends for the benefit
of your staff, patrons, and community. Collaborative Grant-Seeking: A Practical Guide for Librarians
will share new 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
complete 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:
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
