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How to fill out the ARPA Grant Application

Grant Period Applying For (Select one)
Choose the grant period that works best for your library. Either before the State fiscal year-end, or after the State fiscal year-end.
Library Name
This is the full and legal name of your library
Grant Project Manager Name
This is the name of the person who is managing the grant, i.e. applying, planning, implementing, ordering, receiving, installing, making the project work. The State Library will contact this person if we have any questions about the project.
Grant Project Manager Title
This may or may not be the library director
Phone number
The State Library will use this phone number if we have any questions about the application or the grant project
Email address
The State Library will use this email address if we have any questions about the application or the grant project
Library Director
The name of the director of the public library
Title of the Grant Project
The grant project title should be descriptive of the project
Brief Description of the Grant Project (4000 characters; ~600 words)
Explain how the grant funds will be used to:
  • Help your community respond directly and immediately to the pandemic
  • or, support digital inclusion efforts that enable your library to reach residents in support of education, health, and workforce development needs
  • or, provide rapid emergency relief to your library to safely respond to the pandemic and implement public health protocols
  • or, support library services to meet the needs of your community by using the funds for technology, training, materials, supplies, and equipment.

Write out a brief plan about how you intend to accomplish the above goals. Explain how items or people will be selected, evaluated and procured (the items, etc., should be listed below.) Explain how the project will be implemented.
Include anything that will assure the State Library that this library project fits the above priorities and the library has the wherewithal to carry it out.

Project Evaluation Plan
Briefly explain how the library will measure the success and impact of the grant project. For example, the library will survey users, collect usage data, collect before and after data, etc. Include anything that will assure the State Library that your library has a plan to measure how using the ARPA grant funds has an impact on people's lives.
Estimated Budget
  • Check the list of Allowable Expenses
  • Get quotes or look online or in catalogs for the prices
  • Round all amounts to the nearest dollar
  • List or describe items in each category
Equipment and Hardware
Include any physical item or things, like copiers, computers, firewalls, routers, security cameras
Example:
10 Chromebooks 2500.00
1 Wi-Fi Access point 450.00
Cables for networking 200.00
Library Materials and Supplies
Include any kind of materials or supplies, including individual print books and e-books. Subscription services for online access to magazines, streaming video or audio in the Subscriptions and Software section below.
Include pandemic relief items here, like hand sanitizer and gloves.
Contracted Services
Include people in this category, like hiring a tech consultant, or hiring a cleaning crew.
Software
Include software such as security software, scheduling software or software for users.
Other
Include anything that doesn't fit in the above categories
Budget Total
ARPA Funds Requested - the amount cannot be more than $5,000
Local Cash - no match or local funds are required for this grant project
Total Amount - this will populate automatically