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Welcome to the Rural Funding Sandbox!

Many of the resources available in this summary and in the key resources below have come out of the Rural Library Sustainability Project and Project Continuum. Explore and contribute to the growing community of practice for rural libraries. Consider this your "sandbox" for playing with Funding and please, add your own toys!

Resources for Exploring Funding

• Funding Brainstorm: Ideas from your rural colleagues about fundraising, grants, gifts/donations, and sources of funding.
• Funding: Includes resources for fundraising, grants and grant writing, and more funding strategies from across the WebJunction Community.
• Friends and Trustees: Form a Friends group and explore ways others have successfully raised funds.

Action Planning for Funding

• Action Planning Worksheet: From the Rural Library Sustainability Project Workshops.
• Action Planning Samples: See how others are using the action planning process.
• Funding Action Plan Template: From WebJunction's Rural Library Sustainability Online Course (see below).
• Tools for Planning Webinar and Quick Links: Archive of rural webinar focused on action planning methods.
• Fundraising Action Plan: Template from Fundraising for Libraries Online Course.

E-Learning for Funding

• WebJunction's Rural Library Sustainability Online Course
• WebJunction's Fundraising for Libraries Online Course
• UNT - Grant Writing Basics Online Course
• Grant Writing and the Rural Library: Archive of a rural webinar with special guest and library grants expert Stephanie Gerding of the Library Grants Blog.

What are your Tools for Funding?

• Rural Sandbox Project: Post your ideas, methods, and templates in the discussion boards.
• Rural Funding Discussions and Funding Discussions across WebJunction
• Get Involved on WebJunction: 13 ways to be a part of the community!
• Email rural@webjunction.org