A collaborative approach to grant seeking can stimulate and reshape the
culture of your library organization. The exciting and rewarding
activities of developing a successful grants program can yield enormous
dividends for the benefit of your staff, patrons, and community.
Collaborative Grant-Seeking: A Practical Guide for Librarians will share
new insights for those who want to access grant funding without
reinventing the wheel. Based on years of practical grant writing and
collaboration development experience, this resource provides a complete
guide for setting up a library grant-seeking program, and for combining
forces with community partners to increase grant funding to libraries.
Venturing into the grants world can be scary and unpredictable. This
book offers detailed strategies and practical steps to establish a
supportive and collaborative environment that creates the capacity to
consistently develop fundable proposals, and gives readers the
confidence needed to make grant-seeking activities commonplace within
libraries. Collaborative Grant-Seeking will share featured topics
unavailable in other grant writing publications, such as: -interpreting
sponsor guidelines -identifying appropriate funding programs
-determining the feasibility of project ideas -asset-based (vs.
need-based) proposal development strategies -actual examples of
successful and unusual library projects -initiating and sustaining
collaborative relationships
