{"id":32453,"date":"2025-02-06T00:01:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T05:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=32453"},"modified":"2025-03-18T12:18:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T16:18:26","slug":"2025-talk-story-grant-is-now-open-for-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/2025-talk-story-grant-is-now-open-for-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Talk Story Grant is now open for applications!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2025 Talk Story Grant is now open for applications!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Talk-Story-650x440.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Talk-Story-650x440.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Talk-Story-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Talk-Story-133x90.jpg 133w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Talk-Story.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image courtesy of APALA. Logo designer: Lillian Liu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Talk Story: Sharing Stories, Sharing Culture is a family literacy initiative that connects Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander (AANHPI),and American Indigenous or Alaskan Native (AIAN) communities across generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Talk Story micro-grant celebrates and explores AANHPI and AIAN stories through books, oral traditions, and cultural arts to provide interactive and enriching experiences for all ages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Eligibility<\/strong>: Libraries and community organizations that serve AANHPI or AIAN children and their families are eligible to apply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Grant Amount<\/strong>: $500<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Due Date<\/strong>: March 15, 2025 11:59pm AoE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Apply<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apalaweb.org\/talkstorytogether\/grant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.apalaweb.org\/talkstorytogether\/grant<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>For more info contact<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"mailto:familyliteracy@apalaweb.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">familyliteracy@apalaweb.org<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"mailto:talkstorygrant.aila@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">talkstorygrant.aila@gmail.com<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today\u2019s guest contributor is <strong>Tina Chan<\/strong>. Tina is a co-chair of the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association\u2019s Family Literacy Focus Committee. She is also the Reference Services Program Manager and Humanities Librarian at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025 Talk Story Grant is now open for applications!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[61,98,134],"tags":[2742],"class_list":["post-32453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity","category-grants-and-fundraising","category-guest-blogger","tag-talk-story-grant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}