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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Lessa Pelayo-Lozada, APALA Co-Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Liana Juliano, AILA Co-Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The American Indian Library Association (AILA) and the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) are pleased to announce their continued sponsorship from Toyota Financial
Services. Toyota Financial Services will sponsor the <b><i>Talk Story: Sharing stories, sharing culture</i></b> program by providing funding for the fourth year for mini-grants that will be awarded in early 2015.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Talk Story: Sharing stories, sharing culture</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> (<u><a href="http://www.talkstorytogether.org" target="_blank">www.talkstorytogether.org</a></u>)
is a literacy program that reaches out to Asian Pacific American (APA) and American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) children and their families. The program celebrates and explores their stories through books, oral traditions, and art to provide an interactive,
enriching experience. 2014 will be the fifth year that AILA and APALA have partnered on the Talk Story project and allocated grant funding to libraries to implement programs geared towards the APA/AIAN communities. To date, thirty-three Talk Story grants
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Applications for the grant can be found on the Talk Story website at:
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://www.talkstorytogether.org/grants" target="_blank">www.talkstorytogether.org/grants</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Deadline:
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> Friday, February 13, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Grant Amount:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> $600<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Grant Period:
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> May 1, 2015 - November 30, 2015</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">For more information, please contact:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Lessa Pelayo-Lozada, APALA Co-Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="mailto:lessalozada@gmail.com" target="_blank">lessalozada@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Liana Juliano, AILA Co-Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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