<div dir="ltr">FYI<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Anna Coats</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:annamcoats27@gmail.com">annamcoats27@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 6:50 AM<br>Subject: [REFORMANET] Talk Story: Sharing Stories, Sharing Culture Grant is now accepting applications for 2017<br>To: <a href="mailto:REFORMANet@googlegroups.com">REFORMANet@googlegroups.com</a>, cala member list <<a href="mailto:calalist@cala-web.org">calalist@cala-web.org</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><span id="m_1817797940549397840gmail-m_7354748080341851936gmail-docs-internal-guid-da61df9b-5bc8-2f27-a04e-a882c09aba6b"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.71429;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:23pt;margin-left:23pt"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/8ECFPtn2bUcq6UJB6Z-pZlxOZPwEO-ThcjIoNTGf5QBxXUUeDCmr5y3at5psn_sMXpML9EZORoLY-ukW7A_mP4w_COyeid5NGxjAVuspEq_0stJNnw3LeCmVqSkFNiBASU5AQR9D" width="545" height="157" style="border:none"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.71429;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The American Indian Library Association and the Asian Pacific American Librarian Association are now accepting applications for the 'Talk Story: Sharing Stories, Sharing Culture' Grant. </span><a href="http://talkstorytogether.org/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,81,164);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Talk Story</span></a><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> 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. The Talk Story Grant is funded through the generous support of Toyota. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.71429;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">   </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.71429;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Applications and eligibility details can be found at </span><a href="http://www.talkstorytogether.org/grants" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,81,164);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>www.talkstorytogether.org/gran<wbr>ts</b></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></font></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.71429;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Application Deadline: </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Wednesday, March 1, 2017</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.71429;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Grant Amount:</span><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  $750</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.71429;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Grant Period: </span><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> May 1, 2017 – November 30, 2017</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.71429;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For more information, please contact:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height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