CLC Grants
The Community Literacies Collaboratory, with the financial support of the Brown Chair in English Literacy, is pleased to offer grants to support literacy organizations and community literacies educators and researchers whose literacies work is consistent with the CLC and Brown Chair’s purpose: to help all people practice literacies more fluently, richly, productively, and joyfully.
We accept grant proposals once a year in the Spring. Proposals will be reviewed and rated by the CLC Advisory Board. An acknowledgement of the proposal receipt will be communicated immediately, and a decision will be delivered within two months of the application closing date. Applications for Spring 2026’s grant cycle is now open!
Please submit your application as a single-document PDF via email to brownchairinenglishliteracy@gmail.com with the subject line ‘2026 CLC GRANT PROPOSAL SUBMISSION.’
We invite applications from any literacy workers with projects aimed to improve literacy learning, experience, and practice in the United States. However, priority will be given to proposals from literacy workers in Arkansas or with projects that include Arkansans in its form and impact. The maximum funding the CLC will provide per grant is $15,000. Please direct any questions to brownchairinenglishliteracy@gmail.com.
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Seed & Growth Grants
Seed & Growth grants support new or continuing literacy programs and initiatives that promote or enhance literacy learning and development in community or collaborations of various kinds.
Program Examples*
- school literacy programs
- adult literacy courses
- independent/community libraries
- book clubs
- writing groups
If you are applying and are internal to the University of Arkansas, funds will be dispersed via a Worktag.
Eligibility
- literacy workers
- teachers (of children, youth and adults at any level)
- librarians
- school counselors
- parents and others affiliated with an institution or organization, independent of said institution or group
- individuals committed to literacy work but who have no formal affiliation with an established institution or organization
- we do not fund any grants that are filtered through universities; if you can only accept funds through your university, you are not eligible to apply for one of our grants. you must accept our grants as an individual, or with a non-university third party (community organization, program, library, etcetera.)
- if your project requires/includes data collection from human subjects or is in partnership with a scholarly researcher, an IRB should be completed and approved prior to you applying for a grant and submitted with your application.
*The proposed initiatives and programs must be free and open to the public. If funds are granted the grantee cannot, in any way, use the funds to generate money for themselves or an organization, institution, or group.
When uploading your Grant Proposal, please remember that proposals should be uploaded in a single pdf file. Every submission should include:
- Name and contact information (address, email, phone number)
- Contact information (address, email, phone number) of person who will receive the funding
- Project description: describing the purpose, funding request and plans for use, and anticipated outcomes [1500 words, double-spaced]
- Budget for project
- Resume/CV of grant applicant(s)
- **We do not provide advice regarding taxes.**
ANNOUNCING 2024 GRANT AWARDS