Collaborative Grantseeking for Library Staff: An Informational Session

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Interested in the potential funding opportunities grantseeking can provide for your library? In this free webinar, the instructor-authors of the new self-paced course Collaborative Grantseeking for Library Staff: A Step-by-Step, Practical Course for Creating Fundable Proposals will explain why libraries should engage in collaborative grantseeking, discuss the basics of community development, and provide an overview of the process of creating a grantseeking system in your organization so you can determine if this is the right course for you.

By attending this webinar, you will:

  • Know why libraries should engage in collaborative grantseeking.
  • Understand asset-based community development.
  • Visualize the steps to create a collaborative grant-seeking system in a library or other organization including searching and funding alerts, making submission checklists, building partnerships, using templates, and engaging evaluation.
  • Be guided by stories of successful awarded proposals and how they were developed.
  • Have confidence to take the new ALA eLearning course on Collaborative Grantseeking and begin this work in your library.

About the Instructors

Bess de Farber, MNM, has had four careers: as a musician and arts administrator; as a program officer managing grant awards for arts and cultural, social services, and human and race relations; as a nonprofit management consultant; and as an academic research development professional. She has provided collaborative grantseeking training to thousands of library staff, nonprofit and academic professionals, artists, and university students in the past 32 years and has led efforts to secure millions for nonprofits and academic libraries. Her CoLAB Workshops have served more than 3,800 participants from a minimum of 14 to over 120 per workshop. Bess is the author of Collaborative Grant-Seeking: A Practical Guide for Librarians and Creating Fundable Grant Proposals: Profiles of Innovative Partnerships as well as coauthor of Collaborating with Strangers: Facilitating Workshops in Libraries, Classes, and Nonprofits. She holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Southern California, and a Master of Nonprofit Management from Florida Atlantic University.

Sophia K. Acord, PhD, has over 20 years of leadership in higher education research, teaching, and administration in the social sciences, humanities, and arts disciplines. A cultural sociologist by training, Acord’s publications include work on community-based collections, scholarly communications, sociology of the arts, mobile technologies, and qualitative research methods. Her collaborative partnerships have been funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Institute of Museum and Library Sciences, American Council of Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, Florida Humanities, and Southeastern Consortium. She was a founding editor of the peer-reviewed open-access journal Music and Arts in Action. Acord holds a PhD and MRes in Sociology from the University of Exeter and a BA from Swarthmore College.

This event will be hosted in Zoom. Automatic captions will be enabled for this event. This event will be recorded, and registrants will receive access to the recording within a day after the event ends.

If you have questions or requests regarding accessibility, contact us at ce@ala.org or at 312-280-5100.

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