Native American Library Services: Enhancement Grants
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Competitive grants to federally recognized Native Communities for library and archival projects, including oral history documentation, digitization, institutional planning, professional training, and language and cultural material development.
- Indicative award
- $50k–$150k (total award)The programme page publishes an award range of $50,000 to $150,000 for a project period of one to two years.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · AprNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.The page shows an application deadline of 1 April for the cycle with projects beginning 1 September. The competition recurs annually in early spring; confirm the current-year date on the IMLS page before planning.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Applicant must be a federally recognized Native Community that offers library and/or archival services to its community; the Tribe must be the lead applicant, though partnerships and collaborations with universities or nonprofits are welcome.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- oral history documentation · digitization and archives · tribal knowledge stewardship · institutional planning
- Apply at
- https://www.imls.gov/grants/available/native-american-library-services-enhancement-grants
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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