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• Use the <a href="https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/am-i-rural">Am I Rural</a>? tool to confirm your eligibility, as shown on the grant info sheet, attached to the email. This determines whether or not your library might qualify.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> We have a very rural district-- but not according to the guidelines. We don't qualify-- but many others will! </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 2, 2024 at 9:23 AM Rachel Ash via Michlib-l <<a href="mailto:michlib-l@mcls.org">michlib-l@mcls.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-7934966827431463412">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Lub Dub Medium"">The American Heart Association is striving to meet rural communities where they are – and often that’s at the public library. We are offering up to
<b>$10,000 </b>in grants to assist rural Midwest libraries with their capacity to be a change agent for health in their communities.
</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Lub Dub Medium"">Around the country we have helped rural libraries address blood pressure control, improve nutrition security, assist with CPR readiness, and more.</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Lub Dub Medium"">Small
grants of $500-$1500 along with technical assistance from the American Heart Association will often be sufficient to make a sustainable impact. Apply using this
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(5,134,137)">Rachel Ash</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black"><br>
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</div></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Jean Fellows</div><div dir="ltr">(she/hers)<br><div>Programming Coordinator</div><div>Grand Ledge Area District Library</div><div>131 E. Jefferson St.,</div><div>Grand Ledge, MI 48837</div><div>517-627-7014<br></div><div><img src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4zxoTGVxEzJ7sLZC1N3LUx7Oyedbsa95VGh2c5dFE0hmwV6wSu1Vtp3-xu8_L36HE4wag_LwtI" width="89" height="96"><br></div><div><i style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">The Grand Ledge Area District Library is situated on ancestral, traditional and contemporary lands of the Anishinaabeg – Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi peoples-- land ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw. For more information, see the article from Central Michigan University Library:<a href="https://blogs.cmich.edu/library/2019/11/26/the-1819-treaty-of-saginaw/#:~:text=In%20the%201819%20treaty%2C%20the,living%20on%20the%20ceded%20territory." target="_blank">https://blogs.cmich.edu/library/2019/11/26/the-1819-treaty-of-saginaw/#:~:text=In%20the%201819%20treaty%2C%20the,living%20on%20the%20ceded%20territory.</a></i><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>