FUNDING-Limited Submission – IMLS – Activating Community Opportunities Using Museums/Libraries as Assets- A National Leadership Grants Special Initiative (NLG-SI-CC-FY18); May 14, 2018

 

Purpose:  The Institute of Museum and Library Services announces a National Leadership Grants (NLG) Special Initiative. The goal of the National Leadership Grant Programs (NLG) is to support projects that address significant challenges and opportunities facing the library, archive, and museum (LAM) fields and have the potential to advance theory and practice. Activating Community Opportunities Using Museums/Libraries as Assets is a special NLG initiative with the goal of examining how LAMs can work with their communities to leverage their unique abilities to affect positive community change. Successful projects will demonstrate how LAMs can provide trusted spaces for, and learn from, ongoing community dialog to facilitate the discovery of mutual understanding and shared goals among individuals.

 

Funding Amount/ Project Period: $25,000–$150,000 over a period of 1-2 years

 

Link to Funding Opportunity Announcement

 

Matching Requirement: 1:1

 

Institutional Limit:  1

 

Internal Competition: To participate in the university’s selection process,please upload the following,assembled into a single PDF file, to the Office of the Vice President for Research via this portal with a copy to your Associate Dean for Research by April 17, 2018:

• Names and departments or affiliations of the Project Director and other key personnel or partners;
• Title of program and/or funding opportunity announcement number;
• Brief project description (2 pages maximum)
• Budget, including the potential source of matching funds

 

A committee will be convened to review the material and make a recommendation.

 

For questions or issues with submission through the portal, email the limited submission mailbox (limitedsubmissions@uky.edu), or call 257-2861.

 

Agency Deadline:  May 14, 2018