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2020 KBA & Summer Learning Grants Awarded

During normal times, this year’s Kids, Books and the Arts grants and thSummer Learning grants would have gone out in April. Due to the pandemic shutdown, these grants were delayed and the applications closed at the end of May. We had funding for about half of the applicants, and as the KBA application stated, preference was given to those with little to no summer program funding. Summer Learning grants were issued to those that we viewed as viable during this current time of social distancing and limited in-person programs. 

This is the last year for the KBA grants and only our improved grant system–the Summer Learning grant will be available next year. If you applied and did not receive a Summer Learning grant this year, we hope you try again next when hopefully we will be operating under more normal circumstances. 

Following are the KBA and Summer Learning grant recipients for 2020.

Funding for northern KBA grants supplied by the Saul O Sidore Memorial Foundation. Other KBA grants are funded by the Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation, Cogswell Benevolent Trust, and is supported in part by a grant from the NH State Council on the Arts & the National Endowment for the Arts. Summer Learning grants were funded this year by the Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation and the Cogswell Benevolent Trust. 

Northern KBA:

Berlin Public Library

Colebrook Public Library

Gorham Public Library 

Jefferson Public Library

Moosilauke Public Library-N. Woodstock

Stratford Public Library

KBA:

Silsby Free Library-Charlestown

Chesterfield Public Library

Epsom Public Library

Goodwin Library-Farmington

G H Bixby Memorial Library-Francestown

Chamberlin Free Public Library-Greenville

Kensington Public Library

Aaron Cutler Memorial Library-Litchfield

Milton Free Public Library-Milton Mills

Orford Social/Orford Free Library-Orford

Pembroke Public Library

Pease Public Library-Plymouth

Dudley-Tucker Public Library-Raymond

Salisbury Public Library

Sandown Public Library

Davis Public Library-Stoddard

Shedd Free Library-Washington

Summer Learning Grants:

Allenstown Public Library for STEM kit purchases

Shedd-Porter Library in Alstead for Crafternoon supply purchases

Belmont Public Library for Code with a Librarian 

Baker Free Library in Bow for Tinker Tuesday STEM supply purchases

Effingham Public Library for STEM take home kit purchases

Gay-Kimball Library in Troy to revamp early literacy backpacks

Wilton Public & Gregg Free in Wilton for Kinda Cooked Creations

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2020 KBA and Summer Learning Grant Applications now online.

The 2020 Kid’s Books and the Arts Grant is open for applicants. Here is the 2020 KBA artist roster. Please read the instructions as the KBA grant system has changed. We are in the process of improving our summer grant offering to NH public libraries. We are excited to announce the 2020 Summer Learning Grant.

The Summer Learning Grants will be open to libraries looking to increase their impact on summer learning loss for youth ages 5-18. These projects should address the disparities faced by low-income and underserved youth in the community. Projects may include multigenerational programming that engages caregivers in a child’s learning, purchases of tech tools or circulating kits that will impact the community way past the summer, and healthy activities that complement a summer meals program, just to name a few ideas.

Detailed instructions are included in both online applications. The number of recipients will be determined by 1. the amount of funding received (TBD) and 2. the number of and amount of requests. A library may apply for both grants. Both applications DUE BY MARCH 27, 2020!

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CLiF Grant Opportunities

The Children’s Literacy Foundation has some grant opportunities open. Find Community Building, At Risk, Early Educators Training and Rural Libraries grant applications here: https://clifonline.org/clifs-open-grant-applications/

CLiF is really excited to have added This is What Democracy Looks Like, the CCS graphic novel, as an option to the Community Building grant. This will offer copies of the comic, a visit from CCS, and funds to initiate a civic engagement project.