{"id":851,"date":"2009-08-12T09:21:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T16:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=851"},"modified":"2009-08-13T13:49:15","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T20:49:15","slug":"light-the-way-library-outreach-to-the-underserved-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/light-the-way-library-outreach-to-the-underserved-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Light the Way: Library Outreach to the Underserved Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Light the Way: Library Outreach to the Underserved&#8221; grant is sponsored by Candlewick Press in honor of author Kate DiCamillo and the themes represented in her books.\u00a0 A $3,000 grant will be awarded to a library with exceptional outreach to underserved populations.\u00a0 The grant winner is chose by the ALSC Library Service to Special Population Children and Their Caregivers Committee (LSSPCC).<\/p>\n<p>The successful grant applicant will describe a program or service that serves special population children and their caregivers, which may include those who have learning or physical differences, those who are speaking English as a second language, those who are in a non-traditional school environment, those who are in non-traditional family settings (such as teen parents, foster children, children in the juvenile justice system, and children in gay and lesbian families) and those who need accommodation service to meet their needs.\u00a0 The winning project should be well thought-out, doable, appropriate to the target population, and replicable by other libraries.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/mgrps\/divs\/alsc\/awardsgrants\/profawards\/candlewicklighttheway\/index.cfm\">ALSC Web site <\/a>for more information and the grant application.\u00a0 You can also read about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/newspresscenter\/news\/pressreleases2009\/august2009\/lighttheway_alsc.cfm\">Light the Way Grant<\/a> in the August 11 ALA News.<\/p>\n<p>Questions?\u00a0 Contact Barbara Klipper at <a href=\"mailto:bklipper@fergusonlibrary.org\">bklipper@fergusonlibrary.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Light the Way: Library Outreach to the Underserved&#8221; grant is sponsored by Candlewick Press in honor of author Kate DiCamillo and the themes represented in her books.\u00a0 A $3,000 grant will be awarded to a library with exceptional outreach to underserved populations.\u00a0 The grant winner is chose by the ALSC Library Service to Special Population Children and Their Caregivers Committee (LSSPCC). The successful grant applicant will describe a program or service that serves special population children and their caregivers, which may include those who have learning or physical differences, those who are speaking English as a second language, those who are in a non-traditional school environment, those who are in non-traditional family settings (such as teen parents, foster children, children in the juvenile justice system, and children in gay and lesbian families) and those who need accommodation service to meet their needs.\u00a0 The winning project should be well thought-out,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[12,11,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards-scholarships","category-priority-group-i","category-outreach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}