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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. Please share any of your toys that you think would be helpful to others in either the  documents or discussion tabs above!

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.
• Funding Action Plan Template.
• Tools for Planning Webinar and Quick Links: Archive of rural webinar focused on action planning methods.
• Fundraising Action Plan: Template from an earlier Fundraising for Libraries Online Course.

Online Learning for Funding

• Grant Writing Basics (LE@D) 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 Funding Discussions and Funding Discussions across WebJunction
• Contribute to WebJunction by posting your ideas, methods, and templates.
• Email rural@webjunction.org