FYI,

 

Teen Dialogue Accelerator National Initiative – Deadline to Apply October 13, 2025

Calling all libraries!

Do you have…

✓a young patron (aged 16-24) with excellent leadership skills in your community?

✓ staff with 5-7 hours per month to work with this young patron? 

✓a mission to foster youth leadership through constructive dialogue and community building?

Cortico, in collaboration with the MIT Center for Constructive Communication (MIT CCC) and PBS FRONTLINE, invites your library to apply for the Teen Dialogue Accelerator-a new national initiative empowering young people to lead meaningful civic conversations in their communities.

10 public libraries across the U.S. will be selected to pilot this innovative program. Selected libraries will receive:

• $14,000 grant funding for staff, fellows, and programming
• Training, coaching, and tools to support youth-led dialogue
• National storytelling amplification through PBS FRONTLINE

Over 10 months, library teams - a designated library staff person + their selected youth fellow (aged 16–24) will host local small-group conversations on topics like civic identity, democracy, and the future of work. Together, you'll co-create outputs, such as audio medleys, that share youth voices locally and nationally.

You can review the application details and FAQs here!

Apply now to bring this opportunity to your community and help shape the future of youth civic dialogue. Applications close by 11:59pm EST on October 13, 2025.

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We're excited to review your applications,

 

The Teen Dialogue Accelerator Program Team

Cortico

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Meghan Gieseker
Program Officer
American Library Association
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Carnegie-Whitney Awards up to $5,000 for Guides to Library Resources – Deadline to Apply November 7, 2025

The American Library Association Publishing Committee provides a grant of up to $5,000 for the preparation of print or electronic reading lists, indexes or other guides to library resources that promote reading or the use of library resources at any type of library.

Funded projects have ranged from "A Resource Guide about Disabilities, Disability Theory, and Assistive Technologies" to "A Bibliography for Queer Teens" to "Graphic Novels & the Humanity of Mental Illness" to "Web Accessibility Resources for Libraries". 

Applications must be received by November 7, 2025. Recipients will be notified by February 2026.

For more information and guidelines, visit www.ala.org/offices/publishing/sundry/alapubawrds/... or contact Mary Jo Bolduc, Grant Administrator at ...@ala.org" style="color: #2199e8; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" title="mailto:mbol...@ala.org">mbol...@ala.org.

 

 

Forwarded by:

 

Sharon Rawlins, MLS (she/her/hers) Youth Services Specialist Library Development New Jersey State Library P.  609-278-2640 x116    E.  ...@njstatelib.org%0b" style="color: #2199e8; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">sraw...@njstatelib.org W.  www.njstatelib.org   185 West State Street P.O. Box 520, Trenton, NJ  08625