Grant Projects

Califa is the fiscal and strategic partner on a number of federal and statewide grant projects.

Current projects

• Building Radical Empathy in Archives and Special Collections: Highlighting Historically Black Colleges and Universities (BRE) (22-24)
• Community Connections Collaborative (22-23)
• Advancing Creative Aging Through State Library Leadership (22-24)
• The New Face of Library Makerspaces (21-23)
• Libraries as Second Responders (LASR) (20-23)
• Supporting and Advancing Nevada's Dislocated Individuals (SANDI) Project (21-23)
• Evaluation Capacity Building for Public Libraries (19-23)
• Open+ Pilot - Mobile Libraries (20-24)
• California Revealed (14-24)
• Packard Foundation: Stay & Play 2022-2024

Past Projects

• Packard Stay and Play (20-22)
• Get Involved: Increasing Volunteer Engagement
• California High-Speed Broadband Grant (19-22)
• Rural Gateways: Fostering the Development of Rural Librarians as Informal Science Facilitators (15-21)
• Project ENABLE
• California Libraries Cultivating Racial Equity and Inclusion (19-21)
• Cross-Cultural Communicators in Libraries (CCCiL) (18-21)
• Library SecondNets: Libraries Using TV Whitespace to Develop Disaster Communications Kits for Second Responders (18-20)
• SimplyE:  Cross-platform eBook Discover App & Reader (16-17)
• VR Technology for California Public Libraries 
• enki eBooks:  Shared California eBook Platform with Library Owned Content (16-17)
• Early Learning with Families 2.0