Grant
Seeking Activities Update
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July 1998
Ellen Metter submitted a continuing grant proposal to Colorado Parks and Recreation Association, requesting $1,500.00, funded.
July 1998
Eveline Yang submitted Electronic Diversity Tool to Colorado Stewardship Committee/Colorado State Library, requesting $9,200.00, funded, $8,960.00 (LSTA).
December 1998
Susan Maret, Elizabeth D'Antonio, and Judith Valdez submitted a proposal, Virtual Library Improvement to University of Colorado's Total Learning Environment grant, requesting $100,000.00. Was funded with $50,000, June 1999.
February 1999
Judith Valdez, Diane Turner, Cindy Martinez, Tobey Visoon, Laverne, Donalson, submitted a proposal, Enhancing the Library Services to the Students with Disabilities, to Colorado Stewardship Committee/Colorado State Library, requesting $15,751.26 (LSTA). Not funded.
March 1999
Susan Maret submitted a proposal, Nuclear Waste through Your Backyard Workshop to Present the Facts, to Sierra Club Foundation, funded.
March 1999
Terry Ann Leopold submitted a proposal, Enhancing the World Literature Collection, to Great-West Life Assurance Trust, requesting $2,000.00. Not funded.
March 1999
David Gleim David and Laverne Donelson submitted a proposal to the University of Colorado at Denver's Information Technology Initiative to improve technology applications at the Library. Requesting $60,000. Fully funded, September 1999.
David Gleim, Orlando Archibeque, Meg Brown-Sica, Sarah Landeryou, Ellen Greenblatt, Eveline Yang submitted a proposal, Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology to U.S. Department of Education, requesting $100,000.00. (Auraria Library participated as one of the MSCD PEAKS partners)
Fully funded for $1.1 million, August 1999. The Library's grant share is $190,000.00.
August 1999
David Gleim, Elaine Jurries, Diane Turner and Eveline Yang submitted a proposal, Engineering Research Center, to National Science Foundation, requesting $34,320.00. (Auraria Library participated as one of Educational Connectivity Partners.) The full 10-year grant is $2.3 million. Not funded.
December 1999
Auraria Library, in partnership with Colorado Historical Society Library submitted a proposal, Amache Digital Collection Project, to Colorado Digitization Project, a federal grant funded program. The principle investigator at Auraria Library is Frank Tapp; his counterpart at the Colorado Historical Society Library is its head librarian, Rebecca Lintz. The grant requested is $5,000.00. Fully funded.
January 2000
Three grant proposals were collectively submitted by Cynthia Hashert, Diane Turner and Eveline Yang to the El Pomar Youth in Community Service Program. The total grant requested is $5,250.00. The grant will be used to enhance the library exhibit, Understanding Violence-a Matter of Life and Death. Not funded.
February
2000
The Auraria Library Government Publications Department has submitted an In-Kind Funding Request to the U.S. Bureau of the Census Denver Regional Office for funding to support the Auraria Library's Census 2000 Be Counted Center and Questionnaire Assistance Center. The grant requested is $570.00. The proposal was fully funded.
February
2000
Bob Wick and Eveline Yang submitted a grant proposal to the Denver Mayor's Office of Art, Culture and Film for a fund to enhance the fine arts collection. Not funded.
February 2000
Judith Valdez, Diane Turner, Cindy Martinez, Tobey Visoon and Laverne Donalson submitted a proposal, Enhancing the Library Services to the Students with Disabilities, to Colorado Stewardship Committee/Colorado State Library, requesting a LSTA grant of $15,751.26. Not funded.
May
2000
Eveline Yang, with the assistance of Terry Leopold and Orlando Archibeque, submitted a proposal, Building the Diversity Base at Auraria Library, to University President's Fund for Diversity. The proposal was fully funded with a grant of $5,000.00.
May
2000
Orlando Archibeque and Eveline Yang participated with other members of PEAKS (Metropolitan State College of Denver, Aurora, Jefferson, Denver and Adams public schools, Colorado Department of Education, etc.) in submitting a $3 million grant proposal, TQE, Teaching Quality Enhancement. Not funded.
May
2000
With the assistance of bibliographers, Eveline Yang submitted a gift-in-kind proposal to Fulcrum Publishing Company. The Library received a total of 40 newly published books at a value of $2,200.00.
June 2000
Dean David Gleim, with the assistance of Eveline Yang, Judith Valdez and Laverne Donelson, submitted a proposal to enhance the services and resources for the users with disabilities to Ahlin Fund. The proposal was fully funded with $30,000.
January 2001
Orlando Archibeque and Eveline Yang submitted a proposal to The Writings of Mary Baker Eddy to enhance the collections in women's study and religious study areas. The proposal was funded with $150.00.
February 2001
Dean David Gleim submitted a proposal to purchase learning resources from the State Grants for Libraries Act. The proposal was fully funded with $13,157.00.
January 2002
Orlando Archibeque, Margaret Brown-Sica, and Eveline Yang submitted a grant proposal, Creating an Accessible Learning Environment for Persons with Disabilities, to the Colorado State Library seeking Library Service and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, . The proposal was funded with $11,514.00.
March 2002
Margaret Brown-Sica and Eveline Yang submitted a grant proposal, Creating an Accessible Learning Environment for Persons with Disabilities, to the Kenneth. King Foundation. The proposal was funded with $20,000.00.
March 2002
Lorrie Evans, Cynthia Hashert and Eveline Yang submitted a grant proposal for $1,100.00 to the American Library Association Public Program Office's Live @ Your Library to support a library exhibit, Headgear and Multiculturism. Not funded
July 2002
Robert Wick and Eveline Yang submitted a proposal for $4,000.00 grant to Gay & Lesbian Fund, formerly Gill Foundation to enhance the music sound recording collections at the Library. Not funded.
July 2002
Eveline Yang submitted a proposal to the American Library Association Public Program's Live@ Your Library grant to help fund the special event, Applauding the Authors of the Auraria Campus. The proposal requested $1,350.00.
July 2002
Lorraine Evans and Ellen Stevens, faculty of CU-Denver School of Education, submitted a proposal, Librarian educators: teaching to learn learning to teach, to H.W. Wilson Library Staff Development Grant. Requested $3,400.00. Not funded.
July 2002
Teri Switzer and Cindy Martinez submitted a staff development grant proposal to H.W. Wilson Library Staff Development Grant to support the project: Building bridges; learning to serve people with disabilities. Requested 3,517.00. Not funded.
March 2003
Lorraine Evans, Margaret Brown-Sica, Eveline Yang, in collaboration with West High School of Denver, submitted a proposal to Beaumont Foundation of America. The proposal requested $87,400.00 hardware grant to support the proposed project: Access to Success. Pending.
Updated August 2002