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Here are two new federal grant opportunities that were recently announced. These opportunities could be a strong fit depending on your organization’s mission and goals.
Title: Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (2027)
- Funding Agency: Institute of Museum and Library Services
- Projected number of awards: 35
- Award range: up to $1 million
- Due date: November 13, 2026
- Cost sharing required? Yes
- Who is eligible? Projects can support the recruitment, education, training, and retention of pre-professionals, students, faculty, and the current library and archives workforce.
- Summary: Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian (LB21) projects build a library and archival workforce that can meet the information needs of communities of all types and sizes and increase the institutional capacity of libraries, archives, and library and information science graduate programs across the country.
Link to full RFP: https://www.imls.gov/find-funding/funding-opportunities/grant-programs/laura-bush-21st-century-librarian-program
Title: Residential Services for Unaccompanied Alien Children (forecasted)
• Funding Agency: Administration
• Projected number of awards: 50
• Award range: up to $5,600,000
• Due date: December 8, 2026 (estimated)
• Cost sharing required? No
• Who is eligible? School districts, institutions of higher education, businesses, nonprofits, tribal organizations, and governments.
• Summary: The Residential Services for Unaccompanied Alien Children funding opportunity is intended to support organizations that can provide high-quality, child-centered care that promotes children’s safety and well-being. Funded providers must offer services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and have the capacity to accept children at any time, when it is safe to do so and consistent with state licensing requirements. Although children in ORR care are in the federal government’s legal custody due to their immigration status, care providers are responsible for their day-to-day physical care. At the time of application, providers must be licensed, in accordance with state requirements, to provide group home, shelter, or transitional foster care services for children, including any required child placement or related licenses. ORR is particularly interested in projects that provide residential facility beds and transitional foster care in states and localities near the U.S. southern border with Mexico.
• Link to full RFP: Not available at this time because it is a forecasted opportunity.
