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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos Display",sans-serif">Greetings library community!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos Display",sans-serif">Many of you have participated previously in Oregon Humanities’ “Mini Grants for Rural Libraries” – well this is year, their grants are open to ALL libraries, not just those in rural areas.
Please read on for more information and you have questions, please reach out to <a href="mailto:grants@oregonhumanities.org">
grants@oregonhumanities.org</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:33.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#2F2F2F;position:relative;top:-13.0pt;mso-text-raise:13.0pt">Mini Grants for Libraries open November 5</span></strong><span style="font-size:33.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#2F2F2F;position:relative;top:-13.0pt;mso-text-raise:13.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#2F2F2F;position:relative;top:-8.5pt;mso-text-raise:8.5pt">In 2026,
<a href="https://www.oregonhumanities.org/"><span style="color:#EE3123">Oregon Humanities</span></a> will award up to $25,000 in funding to enable Oregon libraries to create and host events in their own communities. The maximum award per organization is $3,000.
Awards can fund one event or multiple events. <strong><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">The grant will open for applications on Wednesday, November 5.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#2F2F2F;position:relative;top:-8.5pt;mso-text-raise:8.5pt">Public, volunteer, community college, and tribal libraries and library branches located in Oregon are all eligible. Applications
are limited to one application per entity (based on UEI) per annual grant cycle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#2F2F2F;position:relative;top:-8.5pt;mso-text-raise:8.5pt">Events should reflect our 2026 theme Beyond 250, which marks the 250th anniversary of the ratification of the Declaration of Independence.
Applicants are welcome to interpret this theme and develop topics that are relevant to their communities. Potential topics include but are not limited to: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#2F2F2F;position:relative;top:-8.5pt;mso-text-raise:8.5pt">How do we think about and experience equality, freedom, independence, tyranny, justice, union, and
other ideas central to the Declaration and to our nation’s understanding of itself? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#2F2F2F;position:relative;top:-8.5pt;mso-text-raise:8.5pt">What characterized the period of time before the previous 250 years, and how can reflecting on a
community's history inform the future?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#2F2F2F;position:relative;top:-8.5pt;mso-text-raise:8.5pt">Our
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<span style="color:#EE3123">Mini Grants for Libraries Project Planning Worksheet</span></a> can help you plan your programming.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#2F2F2F;position:relative;top:-8.5pt;mso-text-raise:8.5pt">For more information on this grant opportunity, including the schedule of virtual information and help sessions, please visit
<a href="https://oregonhumanities.org/programs/grants/mini-grant-libraries/"><span style="color:#EE3123">our website</span></a>. If you have questions, please contact our grants team at
<a href="mailto:grants@oregonhumanities.org"><span style="color:#EE3123">grants@oregonhumanities.org</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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