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<p>Grants for public libraries to help build their collections. Many of these came from this article, "Search for Free Books" [http://www.readingrockets.org/article/search-free-books http://www.readingrockets.org/article/search-free-books] by Rachel Walker, Reading Rockets.</p>

<p><strong>Weed Your Collection</strong> -- Consider following the Texas State Library and Archives Commission's CREW: A Weeding Manual for Modern Libraries [https://www.tsl.texas.gov/ld/pubs/crew/index.html https://www.tsl.texas.gov/ld/pubs/crew/index.html]. </p>

<strong>Baker & Taylor/YALSA Collection Development Grant</strong><br />
To award $1,000 for collection development to YALSA members who represent a public library and who work directly with young adults ages 12 to 18. Up to two grants will be awarded annually, [http://www.ala.org/yalsa/awardsandgrants/bwi http://www.ala.org/yalsa/awardsandgrants/bwi]

<strong>First Book</strong><br />
[https://firstbook.org/ First Book] is a national nonprofit that has provided more than 90 million new books to children in need. In neighborhoods across the country, First Book unites leaders from all sectors of the community to identify and support community-based literacy programs reaching children living at or below the poverty line. Register with the [http://www.fbbookbank.org/ Book Bank] and receive free or low cost books. [http://www.fbbookbank.org/ http://www.fbbookbank.org/].

<strong>[http://community.kidsneedtoread.org/?page_id=1916 Kids Need to Read]</strong><br />
Kids Need to Read provides books, periodicals, and literacy resources to schools, libraries, and other organizations that administer literacy programs to disadvantaged children and adolescents. [http://community.kidsneedtoread.org/?page_id=1916 http://community.kidsneedtoread.org/?page_id=1916]

<strong>Library of Congress Surplus Books Program</strong><br />
The Library of Congress has surplus books available to educational institutions and non-profit tax-exempt organizations. As most of the books have been turned over to the Library of Congress by other Federal agencies, the collection usually contains only a small percentage of publications at the primary and secondary school levels, [http://www.loc.gov/acq/surplus.html http://www.loc.gov/acq/surplus.html]

<strong>Lisa Libraries</strong><br />
The Lisa Libraries provides new children's books to help fill bookshelves for small, grass-roots organizations that work with low-income children in underserved communities and provide books to children who may never have had books to call their own, [http://www.lisalibraries.org/ http://www.lisalibraries.org/]

<strong>Literacy Empowerment Foundation</strong><br />
The Literacy Empowerment Foundation (LEF) is dedicated to assisting educational programs by providing inexpensive children's books. The Reading Resource Project is an ongoing LEF program that distributes free books in sets of 100 books to literacy programs, [http://www.lefbooks.org/reading_resource_project/ http://www.lefbooks.org/reading_resource_project/]

<strong>Hachette Book Grants</strong><br />
Hachette donates more than 100,000 copies annually, from a single signed copy for a fundraiser to large quantities for a struggling school district or library system, [https://www.hachettebookgroup.biz/about-hbg/corporate-social-responsibility/ https://www.hachettebookgroup.biz/about-hbg/corporate-social-responsibility/]

<strong>Bookpalooza by ALSC (Association of Library Services for Children a division of the American Libraries Association)</strong><br />
Bookapalooza Program will offer select libraries a collection of materials that will help transform their collection and provide the opportunity for these materials to be used in their community in creative and innovative ways, [ http://www.ala.org/alsc/bookapalooza-program  http://www.ala.org/alsc/bookapalooza-program]

<strong>Dollar General Literacy Grants </strong><br />
(Five grants available) [https://www.dgliteracy.org/grant-programs/ https://www.dgliteracy.org/grant-programs/]

<strong>Better World Books Literacy Grants</strong><br />
Better World Books Literacy Grants fund literacy and educational nonprofits and libraries for specific projects - the front lines of the fight to reduce global poverty through education, [https://cares.betterworldbooks.com/grants/ https://cares.betterworldbooks.com/grants/]

<strong>Ezra Jack Keats Mini-Grants</strong><br />
Public education is one of the greatest legacies of our country, one that benefits children from every walk of life. For Keats, it was at public school that he received his greatest encouragement to pursue his vocation as an artist. And the public library was a haven that introduced him to the wonders of art history, [https://www.ezra-jack-keats.org/section/ezra-jack-keats-mini-grant-program-for-public-libraries-public-schools/ https://www.ezra-jack-keats.org/section/ezra-jack-keats-mini-grant-program-for-public-libraries-public-schools/]

<h3>Youth Grants</h3>
<strong> Oriental Trading</strong><br />
The Oriental Trading Corporate Giving program strived to enhance the enrichment of the lives of children through education, youth programming, healthcare and human services. [https://orientaltrading.requestitem.com/ https://orientaltrading.requestitem.com/]

<strong>America's Promise Alliance</strong><br />
A list of funding opportunities that range from sports to STEM to education. [https://www.americaspromise.org/news/funding-opportunities-205 https://www.americaspromise.org/news/funding-opportunities-205]

<strong>Follett Grants and Funding</strong><br />
Site includes a downloadble list of grants (PDF), and online list of corporation grant opportunities. [https://www.follettlearning.com/about-us/grants-and-funding https://www.follettlearning.com/about-us/grants-and-funding]

<strong>Believe in Reading</strong><br />
Supports the efforts of nonprofit organizations that teach, improve, or encourage reading by people of all ages from around the world. [http://www.believeinreading.org/ http://www.believeinreading.org/]

<strong>American Literacy</strong><br />
A short list of corporation literacy initiatives. [http://www.americanliteracy.com/Archives/grants-corp-and-other.htm]

<p>This page was updated May 2019</p>
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<strong>Roads to Reading</strong><br />
With a special focus on rural and small communities, Roads to Reading serves organizations across the country by providing new books for remedial literacy programming to schools, community centers, and licensed child care providers and to other non-profits serving children, [http://pwirtr.org/ http://pwirtr.org/] 

<strong>Scholastic Book Grants</strong><br />
The Scholastic Book Grants Program is a corporate in-kind giving initiative that provides high-quality reading materials to children and families in need, [http://www.scholastic.com/possiblefund/ http://www.scholastic.com/possiblefund/] 

<strong>Target Reading Education Grants</strong><br />
Target grants to nonprofit organizations and schools have helped them make a bigger impact on literacy and student achievement, [https://corporate.target.com/corporate-responsibility/education/reading https://corporate.target.com/corporate-responsibility/education/reading] 

<strong>Penguin Random House</strong><br >
[http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/about-us/social-responsibility/ http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/about-us/social-responsibility/] -->