As noted on the ‘Additional Grants’ site, the Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries and Museums are a special funding opportunity within the IMLS National Leadership Grants program. The next due date is February 1, 2012.
These grants of up to $25,000 encourage libraries, museums, and archives to test and evaluate specific innovations in the ways they operate and the services they provide.
Sparks Grants support the deployment, testing, and evaluation of promising and groundbreaking new tools, products, services, or organizational practices. You may propose activities or approaches that involve risk, as long as the risk is balanced by significant potential for improvement in the ways libraries and museums serve their communities.
Successful proposals will address problems, challenges, or needs of broad relevance to libraries, museums, and/or archives.
Past awardees have interesting sounding projects; North Carolina is developing an open source software tool, Texas is creating an online repository where student-created book reviews, reports, and promotional videos can be accessed online across all school libraries through the district's catalog system, and Seattle is implementing an interactive tool designed to cultivate teens as active contributors to, rather than passive consumers of, popular culture.
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