[lstac] Non-Competitive grants

[Sulin Jones]

Hi Karen,

Our LSTA subgrants have to be for new programs or services (cannot fund existing, established programs)... unless it's summer reading, in which case, the libraries have to figure out a new spin or tweak each year. They know I won't fund the same old-same old, and they've got to put some thought into trying new things and reaching new audiences.  That's not to say they not going to keep hiring Indiana Bones (because storytellers who will travel to the middle of Nevada are scarce), but I do feel optimistic that they're trying to figure out how to look at things from a different angle.

And, to second everyone else, outcomes are a different beast. My goal for this new LSTA year is to have prewritten outcomes for certain opt-in grants. I did this for one ARPA project and it was so much easier on me (and probably them!).


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Good afternoon, Michigan has a small (under $2,000 per grant), simple programming supply grant for public libraries. It is intended to allow more robust summer programming in public libraries and a chance for the library to try something new. It is on hiatus since last year due to the CARES/ARPA work and I am pondering how to restart it. My issue is that it has become operational expenditures for small libraries. They just ask for their programming costs each summer. For many, it isn't increasing their programming nor are they necessarily trying something new.

Does anyone else do a non-competitive small grant like this? Do you consider the specific programming content as part of the criteria other than for allowability? Am I just angsting over what a small library can do for grant applications and for programming?

Thanks for any insights.

Karren Reish
Library Grants Coordinator
Library of Michigan
517-241-0021,  www.michigan.gov/lsta<http://www.michigan.gov/lsta>

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