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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Talk Story: Sharing Stories, Sharing Culture Grant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">The American Indian Library Association and the Asian Pacific American Librarian Association are now accepting applications for the <b>'Talk
Story: Sharing Stories, Sharing Culture</b>' Grant.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue"><a href="http://talkstorytogether.org/" target="_blank">Talk Story</a></span></u></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">is
a literacy program that caters to Asian Pacific American (APA) and American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) children and their families, celebrating their stories through books, storytelling, and art. Once again, AILA and APALA have partnered on the grant program
and allocated funding to libraries to help them implement programs. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Applications and eligibility details can be found at </span><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue"><a href="http://www.talkstorytogether.org/grants" target="_blank">www.talkstorytogether.org/grants</a></span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Application Deadline: </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Friday, March 18, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Grant Amount:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> $600<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Grant Period: </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> May 1, 2015 – November 30,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">For more information, please contact:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Anna Coats, APALA Co-Chair: <b><a href="mailto:annamcoats27@gmail.com" target="_blank">annamcoats27@gmail.com</a></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Liana Juliano, AILA Co-Chair: <b><a href="mailto:lj2116@yahoo.com" target="_blank">lj2116@yahoo.com</a></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Katie Anderson, Youth Services Consultant
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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