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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" color="#000000" size="3">Please see the email below for a great opportunity for public libraries and especially public libraries with bookmobiles in Dollar General communities (deadline quickly approaching). There are $5000.00
grants available to add or expand literacy services for adult English language learners.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Sincerely,</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial">Rayburne</font> J. Turner</font></div>
<div><font face="arial">2010 SCLA President</font></div>
<div><font face="arial"><font face="arial"><a href="http://www.scla.org/">www.scla.org</a></font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana"><font face="Arial"><strong>Have You Joined SCLA Yet for 2010?
</strong> If not, please do! The Association needs you as an active member in 2010! Click on </font><font face="Arial">
<a href="http://www.scla.org/index.php/Documents/Membership">http://www.scla.org/index.php/Documents/Membership</a> and join today.
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<div><font face="Verdana"><font face="Arial">Also, please plan now to attend the 2010 Annual Conference. It will take place:</font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana"><font face="arial"><strong>Conference Date:</strong> October 20-22, 2010
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<strong>Conference Theme:</strong> South Carolina Libraries: Advocacy from the Ground Up
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<strong>Conference Location:</strong> Sheraton Myrtle Beach Convention Center Hotel, 2101 North Oak Street, Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
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<p class="vspace"><strong>Room Rate:</strong> $122.00 Single/Double Occupancy </p>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> Michael Dowling [mdowling@ala.org]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 19, 2010 11:19 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> ALACRO-L<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [alacro-l] The American Dream Starts @ your library grants application deadline Feb 28<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks to generous support from Dollar General, the American Library Association will be able to provide grants of $5,000 to help public libraries and public libraries with bookmobiles in Dollar General communities add or expand literacy
services for adult English language learners. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Applications for funding are being accepted online through Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010. Selected applicants will be notified in early April, 2010. To learn more about the American Dream Starts @ your library, the library grants and to apply online,
please visit <a href="http://www.americandreamtoolkit.org" target="_blank">www.americandreamtoolkit.org</a></p>
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To be eligible for funding, the applicant institution must be a public library, or a public library with a bookmobile providing literacy services for adult English language learners, and must be within 20 miles of a Dollar General Store, distribution center
or corporate office. Each funded library will receive a onetime $5,000 grant.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Michael Dowling</p>
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