Library Grants

Deadline: March 31, 2026 (final application cycle) Funder: T-Mobile in partnership with Main Street America Award: Up to $50,000 Eligibil...

Deadline: April 3, 2026 Funder: Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF) Award: Conference registration, transportation, six nights of housing, ...

Deadline: April 6, 2026 Funder: Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF) – Judith F. Krug Memorial Fund Award: $1,000 Eligibility:  Libraries, s...

Deadline:  April 10, 2026 Amount:  Up to $4,000 for an author/illustrator visit Eligibility:  Personal members of  the Association for Libra...

Deadline:  April 2, 2026 (by 5:00 p.m. CST) Funder: Dollar General Literacy Foundation Award:  Up to $5,000 Eligibility:  Schools, public l...

Deadline: April 1 and October 1 (annually) Funder: The Pilcrow Foundation Award: Up to $1,200 in new hardcover children’s books (retail v...

Deadline: April 8, 2026 Funder: Carnegie Corporation of New York ; administered by the Association for Rural & Small Libraries  (ARSL)...

Deadline : March 4, 2026, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Funder: AARP Eligibility: N onprofits, local government entities, and other organizations on a c...

Deadline: March 6, 2026 Sage is accepting submissions for its 2026 Critical Thinking Challenge, a competition that spotlights creative and p...

Deadline:  March 27, 2026 Pulitzer on the Road: Prize-Winning Works that Inform, Empower & Inspire is a national traveling exhibition f...

  Deadline: February 27, 2026 (11:59 PM PST) The REFORMA Día Mini-Grants  support library and community programs celebrating Día de los N...

Deadlines: March 13, 2026 The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has opened its FY26 discretionary grant funding cycle, with ap...

Deadline: March 15, 2026 The Coretta Scott King Book Awards Donation Grant from the American Library Association provides donated collection...

 Deadline: February 2, 2026 The American Library Association (ALA) Libraries Transform Communities Engagement Grant  recognizes, promotes, a...

Deadline: February 2, 2026 The Peggy Barber Tribute Grant is an annual grant of the American Library Association (ALA) that recognizes, prom...

Deadline: Jan. 21, 2026 United for Libraries and Penguin Random House are awarding grants to Library Friends groups at small and rural libra...

Deadline: January 7, 2026 The American Library Association (ALA), in partnership with UnitedHealthcare, is offering a pilot program to help ...

Deadline: November 14, 2025 The American Library Association (ALA), in partnership with the Sustainable Libraries Initiative (SLI), is laun...

Deadline: November 6, 2025 The Public Library Association (PLA) will award 150 scholarships for public library workers and students to atte...

 Deadline: December 11, 2025 The American Library Association (ALA) invites applications from small and rural libraries for more than $7 mil...

Deadline: September 30, 2025 Applications are open for the Infinite Sums Rural & Small Libraries Cohort Grant Program, supported by the ...

Deadline: September 15, 2025 The Jerry Kline Community Impact Prize, developed in partnership between the Gerald M. Kline Family Foundation ...

Deadline : August 11, 2025. The Carol June Bradley Award for Historical Research in Music Librarianship, established by the Music Library As...

Deadline: Applications must be postmarked between July 1 and September 1, 2025 . The Caroline M. Hewins Scholarship, established in 1926 by...

Deadline: July 14, 2025. The Yiddish Book Center’s Public Libraries Program brings Yiddish literature in translation to public libraries acr...

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Deadline: July 14, 2025 The Yiddish Book Center is accepting applications from public libraries to host Between Two Worlds, a three-part rea...

Deadline: May 1, 2025 The Sara Jaffarian School Library Program Award for Exemplary Humanities Programming recognizes excellence in humaniti...

Deadline: Applications are reviewed monthly. Community Heart & Soul is a resident-driven process that engages the entire population of a...

Deadline: April 30, 2025 The American Association of School Librarians (AASL), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), will a...

 Deadline: April 9, 2025 (by 11:59 p.m. Central Time)  The American Library Association (ALA) Building Library Capacity Grants will assist p...

Deadline: March 21, 2025, 11:59 p.m. Pacific ACRL and the Elsevier Foundation are providing a pilot community of practice program, entitled...

 Deadline: April 30, 2025 For the tenth year in a row, EBSCO is accepting applications for grants that will fund solar installations at libr...

 Deadline: Ongoing First Book  is a nonprofit dedicated to educational equity, providing free and affordable books to children in under-reso...

Deadline: February 21, 2025 Applications are now being accepted for the Stephen T. Riedner Grant for Life Enhancing Library Programs for Pe...

Deadline: April 1, 2025 Do you want to collect and share important stories in your community, both current and past, but not sure where to s...

 Deadline: February 18, 2025, at 11:59pm ET Through the generosity of David M. Rubenstein since 2013, and through the generosity of the Kisl...

Deadline: March 1, 2025 The American Library Association (ALA) has more than $300,000 in scholarships available to students who are studyin...

Deadline: February 15, 2025 The American Library Association's (ALA) Learning Round Table (LRT) will award up to $1,000 to an individual...

  Deadlines : February 1, 2025  The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) provides several awards and grants. The entire list is ...

Deadline: December 6, 2024 The Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries provides funds to the neediest schools to extend, update, and d...

Application Dates: February 3-17, 2025 Penguin Random House, in partnership with United for Libraries, is offering grants to support rural a...

Deadline: November 7, 2024 Presented by the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath) in partnership with School Library Journa...

Deadline: January 12, 2025 Widening the Arc of Trans History: Archival Research for Public Storytelling invites early career scholars in tra...

Deadlines: Submit your Intent to Apply by January 23, 2025; final applications due by January 30, 2025 The National Endowment for the Arts ...

Deadline: October 11, 2024 The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is offering $90,000 in scholarships to support in-perso...

Deadline: October 30, 2024, for initial applications Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives: Amplifying Unheard Voices , a progr...

 Deadline: October 18, 2024 The 2024–2025  PLA Digital Navigator Workshop Incentive  is a pilot program supported by AT&T. This initiati...

Deadline: October 18, 2024 Are you a public library looking to enhance your community's digital literacy skills? The Public Library Ass...

Deadline: September 23, 2024 (October 22, 2024 for U.S. Territories) Opens: August 14, 2024 The National Telecommunications and Information ...

 Deadline: July 31, 2024 Books for Change USA is a nonprofit dedicated to providing access to quality books both locally and globally, espec...

 Deadline: August 1, 2024 (part 1) and August 15 (part 2) The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Our Town grants program supports creativ...

 Deadline: February 15-September 1, 2024 Lois Lenski, children’s book author and 1946 Newbery medalist for Strawberry Girl, had a life-long ...

The Association for Rural & Small Libraries (ARSL) is hosting an upcoming webinar focused on the practical strategies needed to succeed...