Colorful Cash!  The U.S. National Endowment for the Arts is funding Challenge America grants to support professional artists and arts organizations that help youth access the arts. Range:  $10,000.  Deadline:  June 1, 2007.

  Family Digest Magazine, dedicated to the health of Black Americans, will add a health section to include significant focus on pre-teens.  No ther publication or media provides editorial focused on this segment that suffers disproportionately from asthma, diabesity and obesity.   A free subscription to the online publication is available from the magazine’s website.

This class information was recently posted on YALSA-listserv. I think it looks like an interesting way to learn about activities that can make libraries more inviting to young people. There is something about the link between images and words that is quite powerful that I am just beginning to become aware of. If I had… Read More Interesting Class

Applications for Target Store Grants are available either at your local Target store or online. The grants, of up to $3,000, focus on arts, family violence prevention and reading. Reading grants are awarded to schools, libraries and nonprofit organizations, supporting programs such as weekend book clubs, after-school reading programs and events encouraging family reading time.

If you’re looking for different ways to involve teens in your library, you might design projects or workshops for budding videographers using Make Internet TV. This site has step-by-step instructions for shooting, editing and publishing online videos that can be watched and subscribed to by millions of people. The site is connected to the MITV… Read More library 2.0