Award - Ethnic Florida and US Caribbean Region Digital Newspaper Project (cash: $221,124 with additional submission of supplemental request of $20,058; cost share: $57,199) The project team in partnership with the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) plans to select, digitize and make available to the Library of Congress 100,000 historic newspaper pages through the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). Approximately a third of these pages will be ethnic papers published in Florida, a third published in the US Panama Canal Zone (held in the UF Panama Canal Museum Collection) and a third published in the US Virgin Islands. While the project consists of newspapers from three discrete regions within Florida and the Caribbean Basin, the common thread running throughout this proposal emphasizes expanding access to information detailing the racial and economic disparities that existed among under-represented populations in the geographic regions of focus. National Endowment for the Humanities – National Digital Newspaper Program
Award - Middle Grade and Young Adult Books with Black, Indigenous People and People of Color: Where are they? (Round 2 Full Proposal) - (cash: $427,100; cost share $434,404) The project team, in partnership with Bates College and California State University-Fresno, with promotional support from state library associations, seeks $427,100 to enhance the discoverability of middle grade (MG) and young adult (YA) novels featuring Black and Indigenous people and People of Color (BIPOC) characters. The two primary goals of this project are to: 1) create a database that identifies not just who are included in MG/YA books featuring BIPOC characters, but how they are represented and 2) to create a freely available analysis tool that can easily be used by librarians to analyze the diversity of their own MG/YA novel collections. Institute of Museum and Library Services, National Leadership Grant, Community Catalyst Implementation
Award - Planning for Open Grants: Fostering a Transparent and Accessible National Research Proposal Infrastructure (Round 2 Full Proposal)- (cash: $99,833; cost share: $41,218) The project team seeks to: (1) convene diverse groups of stakeholders so that a multifaceted research ecosystem is represented throughout the planning process; (2) investigate the scale of challenges and solutions in establishing an open grants repository; and (3) develop a metadata schema and aggregation plan for organizing grant proposals. Although open practices have increased transparency in many aspects of research, such as publications (e.g. open access and preprints), statistical analyses (e.g. code-sharing practices and platforms), and materials (e.g. data repositories, reporting standards), the research funding ecosystem remains largely opaque. Although open practices have increased transparency in many aspects of research, such as publications (e.g. open access and preprints), statistical analyses (e.g. code-sharing practices and platforms), and materials (e.g. data repositories, reporting standards), the research funding ecosystem remains largely opaque. Institute of Museum and Library Services, National Leadership Grant, National Digital Platform Planning
Award- Redressing Native American Oral Histories: Revitalization, Repatriation, and Responsible Sharing of Digital Cultural Heritage (cash: $200,000; cost share: $20,142) In partnership with the UF Samuel Proctor Oral History Program (SPOHP), the project team seeks to digitize and make accessible oral history interviews of its Native American History Project collection comprising 967 interviews recorded on audio cassette tapes housed within the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program. The project is organized into six stages: 1) creation of a comprehensive inventory and database for the collection; 2) completion of vended digitization of all items in the collection; 3) audio optimization for digitized files; 4) completion of transcriptions of the audio files; 5) development of metadata and ingestion of digitized items into the University of Florida Digital Collections; and, 6) determination of permissions, delivery of digitized files to tribal organizations, and coordination to determine public and private access. Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Award- Monographs of Cuban Heritage for Public Access – (cash: $9,952; cost share: $10,577) The project team, in partnership the Davis Library at University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill (UNC), plan to digitize approximately 70,000 pages of Latin American and Caribbean content including approximately 307 titles, including 42 rare Cuban monograph titles held at the Libraries and UNC. All of the targeted Cuban heritage titles have been deemed rare due to scarce availability among holding institutions as determined through the findings of an international survey. The monograph holdings for digitization included in this proposal are 37 reels of 35mm microfilm and eight sheets of microfiche held by the two partner institutions. Unlike other digitization projects, this one features monographs rather than newspapers. Center on Research Libraries (CRL), Latin American Materials Project (LAMP)
Award - SF2UF: The Bridges to the Baccalaureate (total cash: $1,469,229, cash for Libraries personnel: $45,000) UF in partnership with Santa Fe College seek to develop the SF2UF program, a partnership designed to increase the number of underrepresented students who transfer from SF to UF and graduate with baccalaureate degrees in biomedical and behavioral science- related disciplines.
Award - Killers of the Dream: Papers of Lillian E. Smith – (cash to UGA: $81,727; cash to UF: $0) The University of Georgia Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library (UGA-applicant), in partnership with the Smathers Libraries, seek to digitize and enhance description of correspondence and manuscripts of speeches by writer and civil rights activist Lillian E. Smith. Now dispersed across eight archival collections, the digitized files will be available together through the Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) and Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). These collections complement other digital resources available in DLG and DPLA, such as the North Georgia Review, South Today, Pseudopodia, all published by Smith and her partner Paula Snelling, and the Civil Rights Digital Library. National Historic Publications and Records Commission, Access to Historical Records: Archival Projects
Welcome to the UF Libraries' Grants and Fellowships Opportunities LibGuide! These resources will help you search and find valuable information about: deadlines, funding agencies, books, articles, and tools for supporting your grants seeking activities.
From my perspective, grantsmanship includes the process by which an idea is converted to a story about an opportunity to fill a gap, or eliminate a need, or solve a problem, or research new ways to do these things. If the “story” gets funded, dollars provide the fuel to actualize the idea. Grantseeking, to do it well, requires a series of systems within an organization that supports its grantseekers in every aspect of the process. Searching for grant opportunities, and reading grant guidelines should be continuous. Activities for brainstorming fundable ideas should be regular occurrences. Workshops on specific funding opportunities should be provided to potential organization grantseekers. Assistance in developing project teams and identifying organizational assets that can contribute to the development of grant project idea should be organized and supported. Working with partners on collaborative grantseeking opportunities should be the norm, not the exception. Providing coordinated post award management assistance to bring awarded projects to successful completion ensures that the project team has necessary support for all of the various changes that occur during a project’s grant period.
So this work is essentially one of the most creative and rewarding activities on the planet. It offers a chance to organize words and numbers into cohesive ideas that attract the interest of investors (funders or sponsors) who provide funds to change people’s lives. I consider it a privilege to work in this field…planting seeds…watching crops grow to maturity…and facilitating the actualization of dreams.
Bess de Farber, July 2020
Bess de Farber serves as Grants Manager for the University of Florida Libraries, and previously served in the same position at the University of Arizona Libraries. She has provided grantsmanship instruction throughout the past 30 years, and has led efforts to secure millions in grant funding for nonprofits and academic libraries. De Farber has secured millions of dollars in grant awards for nonprofit organizations and academic libraries. Her research interest is asset-based collaboration development. As a certified professional facilitator through the International Association of Facilitators, she invented the CoLAB Planning Series®, large group processes, for individuals and organizations seeking new collaborative partnerships. This process has served more than 3,500 individuals since 2002. De Farber has served on grants panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, Education Foundation of Palm Beach County, Arizona State Technology Research Initiative Fund Awards, and The Children’s Trust (Dade County). As program officer for the Community Foundation of Palm Beach and Martin Counties and Palm Beach County Cultural Council she managed the allocation of funds for arts and culture, human and race relations, and social services. She holds a Master of Nonprofit Management from Florida Atlantic University, and Bachelor of Music from the University of Southern California. She is the author of Collaborative Grant-Seeking: A Practical Guide for Librarians (2016), and co-author of Collaborating with Strangers: Facilitating Workshops in Libraries, Classes, and Nonprofits (2017). De Farber’s latest book, Creating Fundable Grant Proposals: Profiles of Innovative Partnerships will be released in 2020.
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