Collaborative Grant-Seeking: A Practical Guide for Librarians
A Practical Guides for Librarians
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 programme 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 programme, 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 shares 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
About the author
Bess G. de Farber holds a Master of Nonprofit Management from Florida Atlantic University and serves as the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries’ Grants Manager.
Reviews
Verdict A solid guide for novice to expert grant seekers tired of going it alone.
— Library Journal
The book is conveniently organized in a way that allows its reader to jump to useful information on the aspects of grant-seeking of that are of interest to them without needing to read other parts of the book which may not apply. After reading this book, any librarian can be more eager and less intimidated to pursue grant-seeking opportunities because of the way the author demystifies the process of developing a grant proposal. I would recommend the purchase of this book to any librarian or library wishing to develop an understanding of grant-seeking because it will provide you with a step by step guide to achieve that goal.
— Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association
