{"id":5072,"date":"2024-10-07T16:27:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T16:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/?p=5072"},"modified":"2024-10-07T16:28:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T16:28:44","slug":"apply-now-to-receive-up-to-10000-in-digital-literacy-funding-from-pla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/2024\/10\/07\/apply-now-to-receive-up-to-10000-in-digital-literacy-funding-from-pla\/","title":{"rendered":"Apply Now to Receive Up to $10,000 in Digital Literacy Funding from PLA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Digital Literacy Workshop Incentives<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Public Library Association (PLA) has expanded digital literacy funding opportunities and resources for public libraries, powered by a generous $2.7 million contribution from AT&amp;T. Applications for the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ala.org\/pla\/initiatives\/digitalliteracy\/incentive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PLA Digital Literacy Workshop Incentives<\/a>&nbsp;are open through Friday, October 18, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>PLA Digital Literacy Workshop Incentive, supported by AT&amp;T\u2014<\/strong>This program will award $10,000 to large public libraries and $5,000 to small public libraries, as well as provide the necessary training resources, to conduct workshops that teach basic digital literacy skills using PLA&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitallearn.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DigitalLearn<\/a>\u00a0courses and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/training.digitallearn.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">training materials<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>PLA Digital Navigator Workshop Incentive, supported by AT&amp;T\u2014<\/strong>This new pilot program will award $4,000 to public libraries with digital navigators to utilize DigitalLearn materials and resources. Libraries must already have a digital navigator to apply.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ala.org\/pla\/initiatives\/digitalliteracy\/incentive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Learn More and Apply<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitallearn.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/americanlibraryassociation.informz.net\/z\/cjUucD9taT0xMTYzNTk5NiZwPTEmdT0xMTIwMDgxMDk0JmxpPTExMDY1NDQ4MA\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/americanlibraryassociation.informz.net\/z\/cjUucD9taT0xMTYzNTk5NiZwPTEmdT0xMTIwMDgxMDk0JmxpPTExMDY1NDQ4MA\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitallearn.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DigitalLearn<\/a>&nbsp;is PLA&#8217;s free digital literacy training toolkit, which includes self-directed courses that teach basic digital skills, as well as resources for trainers. With support from AT&amp;T as part of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/about.att.com\/csr\/home\/society\/education.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AT&amp;T Connected Learning<\/a>&nbsp;and the company&#8217;s commitment to bridging the digital divide, PLA has also been able to add and update more than a dozen online&nbsp;DigitalLearn courses&nbsp;and develop 9 new complete&nbsp;training packages &#8211; and even more new and improved courses are coming soon!&nbsp;DigitalLearn&nbsp;courses and materials are available in English and Spanish and are completely free to use.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Literacy Workshop Incentives The Public Library Association (PLA) has expanded digital literacy funding opportunities and resources for public libraries, powered by a generous $2.7 million contribution from AT&amp;T. Applications for the&nbsp;PLA Digital Literacy Workshop Incentives&nbsp;are open through Friday, October <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/2024\/10\/07\/apply-now-to-receive-up-to-10000-in-digital-literacy-funding-from-pla\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Apply Now to Receive Up to $10,000 in Digital Literacy Funding from PLA<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5073,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072\/revisions\/5073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}