Talk Story: Sharing Stories, Sharing Culture is now accepting grant applications through Wednesday, March 15, 2023 11:59pm AoE.
Talk Story is a joint project between the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) and the American Indian Library Association (AILA). Talk Story is a family literacy initiative that connects Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI), and American Indian and Alaskan Native (AIAN) communities across generations. The Talk Story grant celebrates and explores AANHPI and AIAN stories through books, oral traditions, and cultural arts to provide interactive and enriching experiences for all ages. This grant provides financial support to libraries and community organizations who are motivated to promote intergenerational literacy through programming, services, and collections.
Libraries, archives, museums, and community organizations that promote intergenerational literacy across AANHPI and/or AIAN families and communities are eligible to apply. We encourage collaboration with related community organizations on a Talk Story program, although the applying organization must be a library, archive, or museum. With the exception of cross-border tribal organizations, all organizations must be based in the United States or U.S. territories.
Two grant winners for each organization (APALA and AILA), a total of four winners, will receive $500 each to fund a program that meets the criteria of the grant.
For more information, please visit https://www.apalaweb.org/talkstorytogether/grant/