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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E74B5">If your public or tribal library supports entrepreneurship with small businesses, you may be interested in this grant opportunity from ALA and Google.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E74B5">This information is from ALA (</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="http://www.ala.org/advocacy/workforce/grant"><span style="color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">http://www.ala.org/advocacy/workforce/grant</span></a>):</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E74B5"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E74B5">Overview<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E74B5">The American Library Association (ALA), with the support of Google.org, is launching an initiative to identify and scale successful entrepreneurship programs in public
libraries across the US and create learning resources for any library to support entrepreneurs in its community.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E74B5">This initiative will identify successful, library-led models to deliver entrepreneurship training and resources, help them scale with a focus on underrepresented and
low-income entrepreneurs, and create a playbook and peer-to-peer learning network available to all libraries so these successful models can be replicated across the country.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E74B5">The Opportunity<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E74B5">ALA is accepting grant proposals from public libraries with a documented history of providing services for small business and/or entrepreneurs for low-income and/or underrepresented
groups in their communities. ALA anticipates individual awards to range from $50,000 to $150,000.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#70AD47">An application that demonstrates interest and eligibility is due December 11, 2019</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E74B5">. From those submissions, up to 35 libraries will
be invited to complete a full application by February 14, 2020. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E74B5">ALA is hosting an
</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#70AD47">informational webinar today, November 25, at noon Pacific</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#70AD47">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E74B5">/ 3 pm Eastern (<a href="https://ala-events.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAudeyprj4rAIYxXwEbL1cLZg7M5hBdSQ">https://ala-events.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAudeyprj4rAIYxXwEbL1cLZg7M5hBdSQ</a>). (I learned about
this late last Friday.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E74B5">FYI,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E74B5">Jen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Jen Maurer, MLS
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