RAC Vision 2022 Resources

Overall funding and guidance resources

• NYS Archives: Grants
• Humanities NY: Action Grants
• NYS Grants Gateway
• IMLS: Grant Programs
• ALA: Money for Libraries
• Grants.gov (includes searchable grant database)

Strategic Priority 1 (Libraries Ensure All New Yorkers Have Access to Information & the Internet)

Examples and potential partners

• CARES Act Library Program Projects 2020-21
• New York Digital Inclusion Fund: 2022 Grantees
• NYPL Digital Divide Initiative
• Capital District Library Council: ARPA Library Program 2021-2022
• Rochester Regional Library Council: Projects funded by NYS Library & IMLS
• Albany Public Library:
  • Albany Public Library Partners with City of Albany to Provide Free WiFi in Three Albany Parks
  • #KeepAlbanyConnected: Albany Public Library WiFi Expands due to Grant
• DPLA announces creation of Digital Equity Project Community of Practice

Funding and guidance resources

• FCC and IMLS Sign Agreement to Promote Broadband Access
• What Libraries Need to Know about the Digital Equity Act
• Webinar Recording: Gearing up For the Digital Equity Act with Libraries
• NYS Library: Digital Equity in New York State
• New York State ConnectALL Initiative
• National Digital Inclusion Alliance

Strategic Priority 2 (Libraries Advance Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging)

Examples and potential partners

• NYC School Library System: Diversity & Equity Resources for Librarians
• Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO): Equity in Action Grant program
• Syracuse University Libraries:
  • Resources for Racial Justice
  • Barriers to the Profession
  • African American Genealogy
• ALA: Libraries Transforming Communities Engagement Grant
• Women, Food & Agriculture Network: Anti-Racism Actions & Resources
• American Libraries: Antiracist Storytimes
• Programming Librarian: Standing against Racism in My Rural Library

Funding and guidance resources

• Documentary Heritage & Preservation Services NY: Antiracism Resources
• New York Library Association (NYLA): Instruction, Development, Equity, and Access Section
• Monroe County Library System: Black Lives Matter, an Antiracism Resource Page
• New York Public Library (NYPL): Racial Equity Resources for Educators
• New York Institute of Technology: Anti-Oppression LibGuide
• Project READY: Reimagining Equity & Access for Diverse Youth
• Publisher’s Weekly: Once More for Those in the Back: Libraries Are Not Neutral
• National Equity Project
• So You Want to Hire an Equity Consultant: A Guide for Leaders and Organizations

Strategic Priority 3 (Libraries Are Essential to the Social Wellbeing of Communities)

Examples and potential partners

• Southeastern New York Library Resources Council: ARPA Awards for Southeastern Members 2021-2022
• ALA: Libraries Transforming Communities grants for small and rural libraries
• Westchester Library System: Community Conversations

Funding and guidance resources

• NYS Department of Labor: Workforce Development Initiatives
• NYS Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation: Grant Programs
• NYS Workforce Development Institute
• Library Journal: Work in Progress: Workforce Development in Public Libraries
• Library Journal: Why Social Justice in the Library? | Outreach + Inreach
• Social Justice and Libraries: What Your Library Can Do LibGuide