ALA: Americans and the Holocaust Traveling Exhibition

Deadline: October 14, 2023

With support from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), the ALA is seeking sites to host Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition that examines the motives, pressures, and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war, and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s. Public and academic libraries are invited to apply. The 1,100-square-foot traveling exhibition examines various aspects of American society: the government, the military, refugee aid organizations, the media, and the general public. It aims, like all of the USHMM’s exhibitions, to motivate audiences to think critically about the history as individual citizens, as a country, and as members of a global community.

Dangers & Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities

Deadline: October 14, 2023

DOT is a signature program of NEH's special initiative, American Tapestry, which leverages the humanities to strengthen our democracy, advance equity for all, and address our changing climate. They hope to attract scholars from a wide range of disciplines who are interested in examining the rold of technology in shaping current social and cultural issues.

Site Preservation Grant

Deadline: November 1, 2023

The Site Preservation Grant is intended to fund projects that uphold the AIA’s mission to preserve and protect the world’s archaeological heritage for future generations. The goal of the grant, which carries a maximum award of $15,000, is to enhance global preservation efforts and promote awareness of the need to protect threatened archaeological sites. The AIA seeks to support projects that not only directly preserve archaeological sites, but those that also include public outreach and education components that create a positive impact on the local community, students, and the discipline of archaeology as a whole.

Inspire! Grants for Small Museums

Deadline: November 15, 2023

Inspire! Grants for Small Museums is a special initiative offered by the Institute for Museum and Library Services through the Museums for America program. It is designed to support small museums of all disciplines in project-based efforts to serve the public through exhibitions, educational/interpretive programs, digital learning resources, policy development and institutional planning, technology enhancements, professional development, community outreach, audience development, and/or collections management, curation, care, and conservation. 

Museums Empowered: Professional Development Opportunities for Museum Staff

Deadline: November 15, 2023

Inspire! Grants for Small Museums is a special initiative offered by the Institute for Museum and Library Services through the Museums for America program. It is designed to support projects that use the transformative power of professional development and training to generate systemic change within museums of all types and sizes.

Museums For America

Deadline: November 15, 2023

Inspire! Grants for Small Museums is a special initiative offered by the Institute for Museum and Library Services through the Museums for America program. It is designed to support small museums of all disciplines in project-based efforts to serve the public through exhibitions, educational/interpretive programs, digital learning resources, policy development and institutional planning, technology enhancements, professional development, community outreach, audience development, and/or collections management, curation, care, and conservation. 

Rural Technology Fund Grants

Ongoing

The Rural Technology Fund provides grants for Rural Technology Education projects and Assistive Technology projects. If you are interested in applying for funding to support your project, please review the grant types at the link below and be sure you submit to the correct application. Applications are reviewed and grants are awarded every 30-60 days, and there are no specific deadlines for applying. Grant are  available to school and organizations operating in the United States.

Music Across Minnesota

Ongoing
Funded by the Minnesota Department of Health and carried out by the St. Paul Conservatory of Music, this program aims to improve student social-emotional health, enhance musical arts awareness, improve engagement in school, and increase community vitality through music.  Students involved in the program will have an opportunity to engage in artistically excellent individual and group music instruction from St. Paul Conservatory of Music faculty. 

MN Historical & Cultural Heritage Grants

Link to Deadlines & Timelines

The Minnesota Historical and Cultural Heritage Grants program —also known as Legacy Grants — is a competitive process created to provide financial support for projects focused on preserving Minnesota’s history and culture. Funding is avaible in the forms of Small Grants ($10,000 or less, applications accepted quarterly), and Large Grants (over $10,000, applications accepted annually).

Blandin Foundation: Rural MN Grants

Currently Closed

The Blandin Foundation funds rural Minnesota leaders thinking and acting courageously with partners on a vision that their community stands behind. They focus on funding and programming to support sustainable strategies that produce measurable outcomes in their 3 impact areas (community wealth-building, rural placemaking and small communities). 

MN Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA)

Currently Closed

The Minnesota Department of Education makes this funding available to libraries for the purpose of helping to achieve Minnesota’s LSTA Five-Year Plan (2023-2027), in order to reduce barriers to access, promote equity, showcase libraries contributions to community, and empower Minnesota’s library workforce.While LSTA funds are primarily intended to support new projects that can serve as models or pilots, applications for new phases of a project that is underway may be submitted. Libraries may also apply for funding of an ongoing project if it reaches new audiences, incorporates new methods or significantly expands the reach of the project.