Book Grants
A wide variety of grants are available at national, state, and local levels to bolster the development of collections like yours. Get more ‘wish list’ books onto your shelves and make your budget go further with these grant and funding options for libraries.
The Dollar General Youth Literacy Grants
Provides funding to schools, public libraries, and nonprofit organizations; helps with the implementation or expansion of literacy programs for students, who are below grade level, or experiencing difficulty reading.
Laura Bush School Library Grant
In order to promote a love of reading, the goal of the Laura Bush Foundation (LBF) provides books to the school libraries and students that most need them.
The Snapdragon Book Foundation provides funds to improve school libraries for disadvantaged children. Grants are awarded to public, private, and experimental schools.
Institute of Museum and Library Servies
Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) Grants are provided by the State Library to assist libraries and library-related agencies develop programs and projects that enhance library services.
Dollar General Beyond Words Disaster Relief Fund Grant For School Libraries
Dollar General, in collaboration with the American Library Association (ALA), the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), and the National Education Association (NEA), is sponsoring a school library disaster relief fund for public school libraries in the states served by Dollar General. The fund will provide grants to public schools whose school library program has been affected by a disaster.
National Leadership Grants for Libraries
The National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program (NLG-L) supports projects that develop, enhance, or disseminate replicable practices, programs, models, or tools to strengthen library and archival services for the American public.
National Endowment for the Arts Big Read
The NEA Big Read is a grant of up to $20,000 to help bring communities together around the shared activity of reading and discussing the same book.
National Endowment for the Arts Big Read
The NEA Big Read is a grant of up to $20,000 to help bring communities together around the shared activity of reading and discussing the same book.
Walmart Spark Good Local Grants
Walmart believes that investing in local communities strengthens our business as well as the communities we serve. Local grants are designed to support local organizations that meet the unique needs of the communities where we operate, build pride among all associates, and deepen relationships with our customers.
Libraries Transforming Communities: Accessible Small and Rural Communities
Libraries Transforming Communities: Accessible Small and Rural Communities will offer more than $14 million in grants to small and rural libraries to increase the accessibility of facilities, services, and programs to better serve people with disabilities.
First awarded in 2014, these grants recognize libraries for their role in the growth of graphic literature and awards funds and resources for graphic novel collection development and programming.
