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From: Sarles Patricia (18K500) <PSarles@schools.nyc.gov>
To: "aaslforum@ala.org" <aaslforum@ala.org>
Sent: Tue, February 5, 2013 9:03:23 AM
Subject: [aaslforum] SHARE: if you need a lot of money to overhaul your library
Here is a possible grant opportunity. The average Foundation grant is $25,000. but they have also given out grants upwards of $100,000.
"The RGK Foundation is inviting proposals in the broad areas of education, community, and health and medicine.
"The foundation's primary interests include formal K-12 education (particularly math, science, and reading), teacher development, literacy, and higher education."
http://www.rgkfoundation.org/public/guidelines____________________________________________
Patricia Sarles, MA, MLS
Librarian
Jerome Parker Campus Library
100 Essex Drive
Staten Island, NY 10314
718-370-6900 x1322
psarles@schools.nyc.govhttp://www.scoop.it/t/help-with-the-common-core-state-standards/http://paper.li/psarles/1332609247The new power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of the many. - John Naisbitt, Megatrends
The Internet may be the world's greatest library, but let's face it - all the books are scattered on the floor. - D.C. Denison, Boston Globe
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. - Mitchell Kapor
To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the chief aims of education. Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction ... The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. - Martin Luther King, Jr. The Purpose
of Education