Applications are now being accepted for the Teaching with Primary Sources – Regional Awards.
Donor Name: Library of Congress
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Awards and Prizes
Deadline: 10/02/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program has been the Library of Congress’s premier educational outreach program. The goals of the program have included providing instructional materials, tools, education, and professional development that enhance teachers’ ability to integrate digitized primary sources from the Library of Congress into instruction that builds student literacy, critical thinking skills, content knowledge and ability to conduct original research.
The purpose of this notice is to identify awardee organizations to carry out all administrative and programmatic functions associated with managing TPS and LHI regional subawards on behalf of the Library of Congress. Awardee organizations must have the capacity, reputation, and relationships to conduct outreach and marketing to educators, operating in large and small communities, who wish to enhance their teaching programs with Library of Congress materials and pedagogical approaches. Regional Partners must promote the program, solicit proposals for subawards, form proposal review panels, evaluate proposals, select recipients, distribute subawards, process subawards, monitor performance, close out subawards, and provide required narrative and financial reports to the Library of Congress. They must assist regional awardees in benefiting from association with the thousands of awardees, educators, and learners who make up the Library of Congress TPS community. Regional Partners must monitor educational trends in the states that they service and advise Library staff on the development of the overall TPS Regional Program. Further, Regional Partners must connect the Library to communities of educators and learners across the country with high-quality resources and teaching strategies.
Awardees must serve all states/territories in at least one designated region. Applicants may only select one (1) region from the list provided below.
Regions to be Served:
- Eastern Region
- Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia
- Midwest Region
- Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Wisconsin
- Western Region
- Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington
- Southern Region
- Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee
- Great Plains Region
- North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Oklahoma, Wyoming
- U.S. Territories
- American Samoa, Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands
Funding Information
Award Ceiling: $900,000
Project Period
18 months
Eligibility Criteria
Have the partnerships, and programmatic, managerial, and administrative capacity to administer all aspects of sub-awarding under the TPS Regional Awards program per the requirements listed in Section A;
- Be public or private organizations, both not-for profit and for-profit organizations and including institutions of higher education, colleges, universities, professional associations, library systems, cultural institutions, other educational organizations such as K-12 schools, after-school programs, literacy organizations, centers, clubs, associations of home-schooling parents, honor societies, and other professional, civic, regional, state, and community groups, and collaborative partnerships (such as an organization with content expertise paired with a state or regional educational entity); states; public or private agencies, including for-profit agencies; and Indian tribes and tribal organizations;
- Be based in any of the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, territories, and commonwealths (Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa, U.S. Virgin Islands); and
- Propose a project that must be conducted within the U.S. or U.S. commonwealth or territory.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
