BlogJunction Pennsylvania
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Kickstarter receive donations through Kickstarter A museum blogger explains the benefits to cultural institutions and how it works
Animoto Professional Animoto supports not-for-profits and other humanitarian causes with free pro accounts. The program automatically turns your images, video clips and music into videos which you can use to drive traffic to your site, solicit donations, spread your message on social networking sites, kick off a fundraising event or make money by reselling animoto [...]
Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections (National Endowment for the Humanities) for planning, evaluation or implementation of humanities material preservation/conservation AMOUNT: up to $40,000 for planning/evaluation; up to $400,000 for implementation DEADLINE: November 16, 2010 MORE INFO
Technology Leadership Academy online training The Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN), with support from Microsoft, is offering a 9-week online Technology Leadership Academy training program and will select 100 participants from 50 nonprofit organizations. AWARD: FREE (100 participants will be selected) DEADLINE: July 30, 2010 MORE INFO
The Grand Opening of the new William H. & Marion C. Alexander Family Library (Hummelstown branch of the Dauphin County Library System) will be held on Tuesday, July 27th at 4:30pm. The new facility is located at 200 West Second Street, Hummelstown, PA 17036 Check out their website!
Grants and Contests Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy – 2011 Family Literacy Grants Grants are for developing or expanding programs that support literacy for children and their primary care givers. (must be for a literacy program that has been running for at least two years) AMOUNT: average grant is $65,000 (total of $650,00 available) [...]
The Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF), through its Judith F. Krug Memorial Fund, is offering 2 Banned Books Week Grants AMOUNT: 2500 and 1,000 DEADLINE: August 27, 2010 MORE INFO
LIBRARIES IN ACTION Feed the Frog at Corry Public Library This donation grabber is “library home-made” from rigid plastic tubing and a sacrificed plush frog:
GRANTS and CONTESTS Grammy Foundation Grant Program, funded by the Recording Academy, grants for music archiving and preservation efforts and for scientific research projects related to the impact of music on the human condition. AMOUNT: up to $20,000 for implementation and up to $5,000 for planning, or consultation MORE INFO IMLS Follow the campaign by [...]
FORUMS/TRAINING Guerrilla Marketing for Nonprofits (a Nonprofit 911 Webinar) how to promote, motivate and raise more money DATE: August 3 at 1:00pm FREE REGISTER Effective Partnerships between the Public Workforce System and Libraries View slides from the July 19th webinar about the Federal effort to promote workforce-library partnerships: