FYI,

Grants Available for Book Clubs Serving At-Risk Teens

Programming grant for libraries serving at-risk teens

Up to 50 grants will be awarded to libraries working with at-risk teens to create a reading and discussion program called Great Stories Club

http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2015/07/libraries-invited-apply-great-stories-club-programming-grants-risk-teens

Libraries located within or working in partnership with organizations that serve at-risk youth, such as alternative high schools, juvenile justice organizations, homeless shelters, foster care agencies, teen parenting programs, residential treatment facilities, and other nonprofit and community agencies can apply for the grants, initiated by the American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs Office.

Grantees will host reading and discussion events—six to 10 teen participants—for each of three selected book titles. The theme for the current round of grants is “Hack the Feed: Media, Resistance, Revolution,” and the books are Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, M. T. Anderson’s Feed, and March: Book One by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell.

Grantees will receive:

•             11 paperback copies of each of the three book selections (10 to gift to participants; 1 for discussion leader/library collection);

•             travel and accommodation expenses paid for attendance at the project orientation workshop for the library project directors, on November 16, 2015, in Chicago;

•             training through periodic project webinars, a program planning guide, and other online support materials;

•             online access to professionally designed, customizable and downloadable resources for use with program participants.

Read the full guidelines at https://apply.ala.org/gscmedia to apply online.

Applications are due September 15.

Best,

Sharon Rawlins, MLS

Youth Services Specialist for Lifelong Learning

NJ State Library

185 West State St.

P.O. Box 520

Trenton, NJ 08625-0520

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609-278-2640 ext. 116 - phone

609-278-2650 - fax

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