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Location: Ripon PL

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The program will offer a number of programs for beginners through intermediate and advanced levels of all aspects of grant writing and fundraising.

Speakers include:

• Peter Pearson, President of the Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library in Minnesota. This organization is unique in that it is both a Friends Group and a Foundation. The organization has assets of approximately 12 million dollars at its disposal. Pearson recently spoke at ALA and will discuss how the economy is or isn’t affecting fundraising and basics to keep in mind for success at fundraising.
• Kitty Pope, Executive Director of the Alliance Library System will speak on grant writing and how in today’s world, it takes a team to plan and implement successful grant writing and projects. No longer is grant writing done by one person; now successful grant projects require the support of the entire organization and staff on all levels with various expertise to see a successful grant from start to implementation of and reporting on the project.
• Lisa Valdez from San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science
• Chuck Thomas, IMLS
• Stephanie Gerding and Pam McKellar, authors of the grants for libraries blog
• Tari Hughes, Nashville Public Library Foundation
• Tom Peters, TAP Information Services
• Allison Miller of the Internet Public Library
• and a variety of other highly qualified speakers

Alliance Library System and Learning Times are co-sponsoring “The Art of Grant Writing and Fundraising” as an online conference to help libraries meet the challenge of finding funding in these tough times. Sirsi-Dynix is sponsoring this conference.

For more information on this conference see http://www.learningtimes.net/fundraisingconference/program/.

This workshop is part of a three event series offered by Alliance Library System and Learning Times.

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