Many of the resources available in this summary and in the key resources below have come out of the Rural Library Sustainability Project and Project Continuum. Explore and contribute to the growing community of practice for rural libraries. Consider this your "sandbox" for playing with Funding. Please share any of your toys that you think would be helpful to others in either the documents or discussion tabs above!
Resources for Exploring Funding
- Funding Brainstorm: Ideas from your rural colleagues about fundraising, grants, gifts/donations, and sources of funding.
- Funding: Includes resources for fundraising, grants and grant writing, and more funding strategies from across the WebJunction Community.
- Friends and Trustees: Form a Friends group and explore ways others have successfully raised funds.
Action Planning for Funding
Online Learning for Funding
What are your Tools for Funding?
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Best Small Library in America 2008 Guidelines
Has your library (over the past 2 years) raised its profile in your community, reached out to new users and remote users, and used technology to support & grow patron access to materials and information? Apply by November 3rd for 2008 award consideration.
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Websites and Internet Resources on Funding
A list of external links
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Fundraising, Grants, and All that Jazz Podcast
A podcast recording of Stephanie Gerding's presentation at the Rural ALA Forum 2006. Note: this is a large file and it may take a while to download.
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Funding Action Plan Template
Create your Funding Action Plan using this template complete with recommended steps and linked resources.
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Funding Brainstorm
A list of funding ideas and resources collected from the Rural Library Sustainability workshops, training institutes, and from other discussion areas on WebJunction.
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Grant Writing and the Rural Library
View the archived August 2006 webinar exploring ways to find and write grants.
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Wish List for Funding Worksheet
Stephanie Gerding shared this Wish List worksheet with particpants of Rural Forum ALA 2006 to use when beginning the funding and planning process.
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Funding Resources for Libraries
A resource shared by Stephanie Gerding at the Rural ALA Forum 2006 in her PowerPoint presentation, Fundraising, Grants, and All that Jazz, found above.
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A Grand Tour of Alternative Funding
Libraries are looking beyond tax dollars for their support...here's a compendium of creative funding solutions.
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Grant Process Cycle Graphic
From Grants for Libraries: A How-To-Do-It Manual and CD-ROM by Stephanie Gerding and Pamela MacKellar, shared with particpants of Rural Forum ALA 2006 and here with permission from the authors.
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Fundraising, Grants, and All that Jazz
A PowerPoint presentation and link to podcast shared by Stephanie Gerding at the Rural ALA Forum 2006. A podcast of the presentation is also available.
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Fundraising Action Plan
This worksheet is from an earlier course: 'WebJunction's Fundraising for Libraries', and can serve as another tool to help you plan a fundraising campaign for your library.
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SC Toolkit Chapter 9, Raise Funds
From the Staying Connected Toolkit, this chapter includes sections: 1. Identify fundraising opportunities 2. Approach potential funding sources 3. Conduct fundraising events 4. Resources for fundraising and grantmaking.
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Cost Benefit Analysis Manual for Medium Sized and Smaller Public Libraries
This manual provides detailed instructions and tools that small to mid-sized libraries can use to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of their services. The work was funded by an Institute for Museum and Library Studies (IMLS) grant to the St. Louis Public Library.
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Telling Your Library's Story
Karen Burns of the Southwest Iowa Library Service Area spins a tale about the ways storytelling can help libraries prove their worth.
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