82 FR 57619 - Request for Letters of Intent To Apply for 2018 Pro Bono Innovation Fund Grants
LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 233 (December 6, 2017)
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[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 233 (Wednesday, December 6, 2017)] [Notices] [Pages 57619-57622] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2017-26274] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION Request for Letters of Intent To Apply for 2018 Pro Bono Innovation Fund Grants AGENCY: Legal Services Corporation. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) issues this Notice describing the conditions for submitting Letters of Intent to Apply for 2018 Pro Bono Innovation Fund grants. On May 15, 2017, Congress provided $4 million for the Pro Bono Innovation Fund through the Consolidated Appropriations Act for 2017. DATES: Letters of Intent must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. EST on Monday, January 8, 2018. ADDRESSES: Letters of Intent must be submitted electronically at http://lscgrants.lsc.gov. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mytrang Nguyen, Program Counsel, Office of Program Performance, Legal Services Corporation, 3333 K Street NW., Washington, DC 20007; (202) 295-1564 or [email protected]. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. General Information Since 2014, Congress has provided an annual appropriation to LSC ``for a Pro Bono Innovation Fund.'' See, e.g., Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017, [[Page 57620]] Pub. L. 115-31, 131 Stat. 135 (2017). LSC requested these funds for grants to ``develop, test, and replicate innovative pro bono efforts that can enable LSC grantees to expand clients' access to high quality legal assistance.'' LSC Budget Request, Fiscal Year 2014 at 26 (2013). The grants must involve innovations that are either ``new ideas'' or ``new applications of existing best practices.'' Id. Each grant would ``either serve as a model for other legal services providers to follow or effectively replicate a prior innovation. Id. The Senate Appropriations Committee explained that these funds ``will support innovative projects that promote and enhance pro initiatives throughout the Nation,'' and the House Appropriations Committee directed LSC ``to increase the involvement of private attorneys in the delivery of legal services to [LSC-eligible] clients.'' Senate Report 114-239 at 123 (2016), House Report 113-448 at 85 (2014). LSC sought these funds based on the 2012 recommendation of the LSC Pro Bono Task Force. Since its inception, the Pro Bono Innovation Fund has advanced LSC's goal of increasing the quantity and quality of legal services by funding projects that more efficiently and effectively involve pro bono volunteers in serving the critical unmet legal needs of LSC-eligible clients. In 2017, LSC built on these successes by dividing the grants into three categories to better focus on innovations serving unmet and well-defined client needs (Project Grants), on building comprehensive and effective pro bono projects through new applications of existing best practices (Transformation Grants), and on providing continued development support for the most promising innovations (Sustainability Grants). II. Funding Opportunity Information A. Eligible Applicants To be eligible for the Pro Bono Innovation Fund's Project, Sustainability, and Transformation grants, Applicants must be current grantees of LSC Basic Field-General, Basic Field-Migrant, or Basic Field-Native American grants. In addition, Sustainability Grant Applicants must also be a former or current Pro Bono Innovation Fund grantee from the FY 2015 or FY 2016 grant making cycle. B. Pro Bono Innovation Fund Purpose and Key Goals Pro Bono Innovation Fund grants develop, test, and replicate innovative pro bono efforts that can enable LSC grantees to use pro bono volunteers to serve larger numbers of low-income clients and improve the quality and effectiveness of the services provided. The key goals of the Pro Bono Innovation Fund are to: 1. Address gaps in the delivery of legal services to low-income people; 2. Engage more lawyers and other volunteers in pro bono service; and 3. Develop, test, and replicate innovative pro bono efforts. C. Funding Opportunities 1. Project Grants The goal of Pro Bono Innovation Fund Project Grants is to leverage volunteers to meet a critical, unmet and well-defined client need. LSC welcomes applications for Project Grants in a wide variety of areas; there are no specific areas of interest. Consistent with the key goals of the Pro Bono Innovation Fund, however, applicants are encouraged to focus on engaging volunteers to increase free civil legal aid for low- income Americans by proposing new, replicable ideas. Past projects include efforts to integrate pro bono volunteers into medical-legal partnerships, to engage retired and transitioning attorneys in legal aid, to leverage transactional pro bono attorneys to serve low-income micro-entrepreneurs, and to use technology and web- based systems to allow metropolitan pro bono attorneys to serve rural clients in more remote parts of the state. Project Grants can be either 18 or 24-months. 2. Transformation Grants The goal of Pro Bono Innovation Fund Transformation Grants is to support LSC grantees in comprehensive assessment and restructuring of pro bono programs through new applications of existing best practices in pro bono delivery. Each Transformation Grant will support a rigorous and extensive assessment of an LSC grantee's pro bono program, the identification of best practices in pro bono delivery that are best suited to that grantee's needs and circumstances, and the development and implementation of new applications of those best practices to restructuring its pro bono program through short- and long-term improvements to organizational policies, management, and operations. Transformation Grants are for 24 months and targeted towards LSC grantees whose leadership is committed to restructuring an entire pro bono program and incorporating pro bono best practices into core, high- priority client services with an urgency to create a high-impact pro bono program. This funding opportunity is open to all LSC grantees, but is primarily intended for LSC grantees who have been unsuccessful with Project Grants or who have never applied for a Pro Bono Innovation Fund grant in the past. 3. Sustainability Grants Pro Bono Innovation Fund Sustainability Grants are available to current or former Pro Bono Innovation Fund grantees who were funded in either FY 2015 or FY 2016. The goal of Sustainability Grants is to support further development of the most promising and replicable Pro Bono Innovation Fund projects with an additional 24 months of funding so grantees can leverage new sources of revenue for the project, collect meaningful data to demonstrate the project's results and outcomes for clients and volunteers, and quantify the return on LSC's investment of Pro Bono Innovation Fund dollars. Applicants for Sustainability Grants will be required to propose an ambitious match requirement, tied to realistic goals that reduce the Pro Bono Innovation Fund contribution to the project over the grant term. D. Available Funds for FY 2018 The availability of Pro Bono Innovation Fund grants for FY 2018 depends on LSC's receipt of a full fiscal year appropriation. LSC is currently operating under a Continuing Resolution for FY 2018 which funds the federal government through December 8, 2017. The Continuing Resolution maintains funding at FY 2017 levels, but with an across-the- board reduction of 0.6791 percent. In FY 2017, LSC received an appropriation of $4 million, of which $3.8 million was available for direct grants to support Pro Bono Innovation Fund projects. A .6791 percent rescission for all of FY18 would result in a $25,805.80 decrease in the Pro Bono Innovation Fund's appropriation. In 2017, fifteen Pro Bono Innovation Fund applications received funding with a median funding amount of $253,333. There is no maximum amount for Pro Bono Innovation Fund requests that are within the total funding available. Pro Bono Innovation Fund grant decisions for FY 2018 will be made in the summer of 2018. LSC anticipates knowing the total amount available for Pro Bono Innovation Fund grants before August and will communicate this information to all applicants as soon as LSC receives our final appropriation for the full fiscal year. LSC will not designate fixed or estimated amounts for the three [[Page 57621]] different funding categories and will make grant awards for the three categories within the total amount of funding available. E. Project and Grant Term Pro Bono Innovation Fund grant awards will cover an 18- to 24-month project period. Applicants for Project Grants can apply for either an 18- or a 24-month project. Applicants for Transformation Grants and Sustainability Grants apply for a 24-month grant only. Applicants' proposals should cover the full term for which a grant award is requested. The grant term is expected to commence on October 1, 2018. III. Grant Application Process and Letter of Intent To Apply Instructions A. Pro Bono Innovation Fund Grant Application Process LSC is committed to reviewing all Pro Bono Innovation Fund grant applications in a quick and thorough manner. Applicants must first submit a Letter of Intent to Apply for Funding (LOI). LSC staff will review the LOIs and notify applicants by February 2018 if their LOI is selected. Applicants whose LOIs are selected will be asked to submit a detailed, full application in LSC Grants. Once LSC has received a full application from a selected applicant, the application undergoes a rigorous review process by LSC staff and external subject matter experts. LSC's President makes the final decision on funding for the Pro Bono Innovation Fund. B. Late or Incomplete Applications LSC may consider an LOI after the deadline, but only if the Applicant has submitted an email to [email protected] explaining the circumstances that caused the delay prior to the applicable deadline. Communication with LSC staff, including assigned Program Liaisons, is not a substitute for sending an explanatory email to [email protected]. At its discretion, LSC may consider incomplete applications. LSC will determine the admissibility of late or incomplete applications on a case-by-case basis. C. Letters of Intent To Apply for Funding Requirements and Format The LOI should succinctly summarize the information requested for the funding category for which an applicant seeks funding. A complete LOI consists of: (1) A narrative that responds to the questions for the funding category; and (2) a budget form. Applicants must submit the LOI electronically using the LSC Grants online system found at http://lscgrants.lsc.gov. The system will be live for applicants in early December 2017. The LOI narrative should be a Word or PDF document submitted in the LSC Grants system. The narrative must not exceed 5 double-spaced pages or approximately 1,300 words in Times New Roman, 12-point font. The LOI narrative must be paginated. The budget form is an online form that is submitted in LSC Grants. Applicants who do not follow the above formatting requirements for the Narrative submission may be subject to scoring penalties. Applicants may submit multiple LOIs under the same or different funding category. If applying for multiple grants, applicants should submit a separate LOI in LSC Grants for each funding request. 1. Project Grants The LOI Narrative for Project Grants should respond to the following questions. a. Project Description. Please provide a brief description of the proposed project that includes:The specific client need and challenge or opportunity in the pro bono delivery system that the project will address. The goals and objectives of the project, the activities that make up the project, and how those activities will link to and achieve the stated goals and objectives. Strong indication of volunteer interest in and support for the project. The expected impact of the project. This should include a brief explanation of the changes and outcomes that will be created as a result of the project. The proposed strategies that are innovative or the best practices being replicated, including a brief discussion of how these innovation and/or replicable strategies were identified. b. Project Staff, Organizational Capacity, and Project Partners. Please briefly identify and describe the project team and project partners including: The qualifications and relevant experience of the proposed project team, any proposed partner organizations, and your organization. The role of your organization's executive management in the design and implementation of the project. c. Budget and Timeline. Please state whether you are proposing an 18- or 24-month project and provide the following information about the estimated project costs: Estimated total project cost. This includes the estimate for the Pro Bono Innovation Fund requested amount and other in-kind or cash contributions to support the project. Your narrative should provide a breakdown of the major project expenses including, but not limited to, personnel, project expenses, contracts or sub-grants, etc., and how each expense supports the project design. For expenses related to personnel, please indicate how many and which positions will be fully or partially funded by the proposed grant. A list of any anticipated contributions, both in-kind and monetary, from all partners involved in the project. A list of key partners who will receive Pro Bono Innovation Fund funding, including their roles and the estimated dollar amount or percent of budget assigned to each partner. 2. Transformation Grants The LOI Narrative for Transformation Grants should respond to the following questions. a. Transformation Strategy: Please explain why are you seeking a Transformation Grant for your pro bono program. In your response, please include: An honest assessment of the challenges with your organization's current pro bono efforts that inhibit your ability to test, develop, and replicate innovations, and the reasons for them. At least three specific and important improvements to your organization's pro bono program that you would like to achieve in the first 6-9 months of a two-year Transformation Grant. b. Guiding Coalition: Please describe the core team who would be responsible for the pro bono transformation effort in your organization. In your response, please state: The qualifications and relevant experience of each proposed team member. Whether a majority your executive and senior managers agree that your organization's pro bono program needs significant improvements. The role your organization's executive director and/or senior managers would play in a pro bono transformation effort. c. Budget. Please describe what you would like the Transformation Grant to fund over the 24-month grant period. In your response, please be sure to provide the following information about the anticipated costs associated with a transformation effort for your pro bono program: [[Page 57622]] The estimated total cost and a clear description of what the grant will fund. Your narrative should provide a breakdown of the major expenses including, but not limited to, personnel, project expenses, contracts or subgrants, etc., and how each expense supports the transformation effort to improve your pro bono program. For expenses related to personnel, please indicate how many and which positions will be fully or partially funded by the proposed grant. For contracts, please describe whether you intend to use consultants, implement new technology systems, conduct business process analysis, etc. and how this supports improvements to you pro bono program. 3. Sustainability Grants The LOI Narrative for Sustainability Grants should respond to the following questions. a. Justification for Sustaining the Pro Bono Innovation Project. Please describe why you are seeking Sustainability Grant. In your response, please discuss the following: The impact of the Pro Bono Innovation Fund project to date, supported by data and analysis as to whether the goals of the project were achieved. Evidence of ongoing client need and how you intend to make the project part of your core legal services. The level of engagement of pro bono volunteers/private bar and the best practices in pro bono delivery that can be replicated by others. How ongoing program evaluation and data collection will be incorporated into the project. b. Project Staff and Management Support. Please briefly identify and describe the project team and project partners. In your response, please include the following: The project staff that will be responsible for the sustainability phase of the project. Please include any additional staff, descriptions of new responsibilities for existing project staff and/or organizational changes that will be made. The role of your organization's executive management in the decision to seek this Sustainability Grant and recent examples of your organization's track record turning ``new'' or special projects into core legal services. c. Budget and Match Requirement. Please describe what you would like the Sustainability Grant to fund. In your response, please be sure to provide the following information: Estimated total project cost. This includes the estimate for the Pro Bono Innovation Fund requested amount and other in-kind or cash contributions to support the project. Your narrative should provide a breakdown of the major project expenses including, but not limited to, personnel, project expenses, etc., and how each expense supports the project design. A narrative proposing an ambitious match requirement that reduces the Pro Bono Innovation Fund contribution to the project for the grant term. LSC is not setting a specific percentage of required match for Sustainability Grant applicants, but will assess the two-year budget from the applicant's previously funded project with the grant amount proposed in the Sustainability LOI. LSC's expectation is that applicants will propose a meaningful shift from Pro Bono Innovation Fund support to other sources of support during the grant term. A narrative discussing the potential sources of funding that have been or will be cultivated. If the project has already received new financial support, please provide the source and amount committed and further describe the plans for ensuring continued financial support. 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errors, or other areas which are relevant working relationships with professional describing the conditions for submitting
to BLS work. The behavioral scientists associations with an interest in BLS Letters of Intent to Apply for 2018 Pro
will be familiar with questionnaire statistics, such as the American Bono Innovation Fund grants. On May
design, usability, or other areas of Statistical Association and the 15, 2017, Congress provided $4 million
survey development. BLS invites American Economic Association. for the Pro Bono Innovation Fund
persons interested in serving on the Nominations: BLS is looking for through the Consolidated
TAC to submit their names for committed TAC members who have a Appropriations Act for 2017.
consideration for committee strong interest in, and familiarity with,
DATES: Letters of Intent must be
membership. BLS data. The Agency is looking for
submitted by 11:59 p.m. EST on
DATES: Nominations for the TAC nominees who use and have a
Monday, January 8, 2018.
membership should be postmarked comprehensive understanding of
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2150. Washington, DC 20212. Nominations should include the annual appropriation to LSC ‘‘for a Pro
Telephone: 202–691–5600. This is not a name, address, and telephone number of Bono Innovation Fund.’’ See, e.g.,
toll free number. the candidate. Each nomination should Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017,
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Pub. L. 115–31, 131 Stat. 135 (2017). clients and improve the quality and grantees, but is primarily intended for
LSC requested these funds for grants to effectiveness of the services provided. LSC grantees who have been
‘‘develop, test, and replicate innovative The key goals of the Pro Bono unsuccessful with Project Grants or who
pro bono efforts that can enable LSC Innovation Fund are to: have never applied for a Pro Bono
grantees to expand clients’ access to 1. Address gaps in the delivery of Innovation Fund grant in the past.
high quality legal assistance.’’ LSC legal services to low-income people;
3. Sustainability Grants
Budget Request, Fiscal Year 2014 at 26 2. Engage more lawyers and other
(2013). The grants must involve volunteers in pro bono service; and Pro Bono Innovation Fund
innovations that are either ‘‘new ideas’’ 3. Develop, test, and replicate Sustainability Grants are available to
or ‘‘new applications of existing best innovative pro bono efforts. current or former Pro Bono Innovation
practices.’’ Id. Each grant would ‘‘either Fund grantees who were funded in
C. Funding Opportunities either FY 2015 or FY 2016. The goal of
serve as a model for other legal services
providers to follow or effectively 1. Project Grants Sustainability Grants is to support
replicate a prior innovation. Id. further development of the most
The goal of Pro Bono Innovation Fund promising and replicable Pro Bono
The Senate Appropriations Project Grants is to leverage volunteers
Committee explained that these funds Innovation Fund projects with an
to meet a critical, unmet and well- additional 24 months of funding so
‘‘will support innovative projects that defined client need. LSC welcomes
promote and enhance pro initiatives grantees can leverage new sources of
applications for Project Grants in a wide revenue for the project, collect
throughout the Nation,’’ and the House variety of areas; there are no specific
Appropriations Committee directed LSC meaningful data to demonstrate the
areas of interest. Consistent with the key project’s results and outcomes for
‘‘to increase the involvement of private goals of the Pro Bono Innovation Fund,
attorneys in the delivery of legal clients and volunteers, and quantify the
however, applicants are encouraged to return on LSC’s investment of Pro Bono
services to [LSC-eligible] clients.’’ focus on engaging volunteers to increase
Senate Report 114–239 at 123 (2016), Innovation Fund dollars. Applicants for
free civil legal aid for low-income Sustainability Grants will be required to
House Report 113–448 at 85 (2014). LSC Americans by proposing new, replicable
sought these funds based on the 2012 propose an ambitious match
ideas. requirement, tied to realistic goals that
recommendation of the LSC Pro Bono Past projects include efforts to
Task Force. Since its inception, the Pro reduce the Pro Bono Innovation Fund
integrate pro bono volunteers into contribution to the project over the grant
Bono Innovation Fund has advanced medical-legal partnerships, to engage
LSC’s goal of increasing the quantity term.
retired and transitioning attorneys in
and quality of legal services by funding legal aid, to leverage transactional pro D. Available Funds for FY 2018
projects that more efficiently and bono attorneys to serve low-income The availability of Pro Bono
effectively involve pro bono volunteers micro-entrepreneurs, and to use Innovation Fund grants for FY 2018
in serving the critical unmet legal needs technology and web-based systems to depends on LSC’s receipt of a full fiscal
of LSC-eligible clients. In 2017, LSC allow metropolitan pro bono attorneys year appropriation. LSC is currently
built on these successes by dividing the to serve rural clients in more remote operating under a Continuing
grants into three categories to better parts of the state. Project Grants can be Resolution for FY 2018 which funds the
focus on innovations serving unmet and either 18 or 24-months. federal government through December
well-defined client needs (Project
2. Transformation Grants 8, 2017. The Continuing Resolution
Grants), on building comprehensive and
maintains funding at FY 2017 levels, but
effective pro bono projects through new The goal of Pro Bono Innovation Fund with an across-the-board reduction of
applications of existing best practices Transformation Grants is to support 0.6791 percent.
(Transformation Grants), and on LSC grantees in comprehensive In FY 2017, LSC received an
providing continued development assessment and restructuring of pro appropriation of $4 million, of which
support for the most promising bono programs through new $3.8 million was available for direct
innovations (Sustainability Grants). applications of existing best practices in grants to support Pro Bono Innovation
II. Funding Opportunity Information pro bono delivery. Each Transformation Fund projects. A .6791 percent
Grant will support a rigorous and rescission for all of FY18 would result
A. Eligible Applicants extensive assessment of an LSC in a $25,805.80 decrease in the Pro Bono
To be eligible for the Pro Bono grantee’s pro bono program, the Innovation Fund’s appropriation.
Innovation Fund’s Project, identification of best practices in pro In 2017, fifteen Pro Bono Innovation
Sustainability, and Transformation bono delivery that are best suited to that Fund applications received funding
grants, Applicants must be current grantee’s needs and circumstances, and with a median funding amount of
grantees of LSC Basic Field-General, the development and implementation of $253,333. There is no maximum amount
Basic Field-Migrant, or Basic Field- new applications of those best practices for Pro Bono Innovation Fund requests
Native American grants. In addition, to restructuring its pro bono program that are within the total funding
Sustainability Grant Applicants must through short- and long-term available.
also be a former or current Pro Bono improvements to organizational Pro Bono Innovation Fund grant
Innovation Fund grantee from the FY policies, management, and operations. decisions for FY 2018 will be made in
2015 or FY 2016 grant making cycle. Transformation Grants are for 24 the summer of 2018. LSC anticipates
months and targeted towards LSC knowing the total amount available for
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B. Pro Bono Innovation Fund Purpose grantees whose leadership is committed Pro Bono Innovation Fund grants before
and Key Goals to restructuring an entire pro bono August and will communicate this
Pro Bono Innovation Fund grants program and incorporating pro bono information to all applicants as soon as
develop, test, and replicate innovative best practices into core, high-priority LSC receives our final appropriation for
pro bono efforts that can enable LSC client services with an urgency to create the full fiscal year.
grantees to use pro bono volunteers to a high-impact pro bono program. This LSC will not designate fixed or
serve larger numbers of low-income funding opportunity is open to all LSC estimated amounts for the three
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• The estimated total cost and a clear Innovation Fund requested amount and consultation program helps to ensure
description of what the grant will fund. other in-kind or cash contributions to that requested data can be provided in
Your narrative should provide a support the project. Your narrative the desired format, reporting burden
breakdown of the major expenses should provide a breakdown of the (time and financial resources) is
including, but not limited to, personnel, major project expenses including, but minimized, collection instruments are
project expenses, contracts or subgrants, not limited to, personnel, project clearly understood, and the impact of
etc., and how each expense supports the expenses, etc., and how each expense collection requirements on respondents
transformation effort to improve your supports the project design. can be properly assessed. By this notice,
pro bono program. • A narrative proposing an ambitious IMLS is soliciting comments concerning
• For expenses related to personnel, match requirement that reduces the Pro a plan to offer two grant programs
please indicate how many and which Bono Innovation Fund contribution to targeted to the needs of libraries
positions will be fully or partially the project for the grant term. LSC is not nationwide, aligned to the updated
funded by the proposed grant. setting a specific percentage of required IMLS Strategic Framework for 2019–
• For contracts, please describe match for Sustainability Grant 2021, the National Leadership Grants for
whether you intend to use consultants, applicants, but will assess the two-year Libraries and the Laura Bush 21st
implement new technology systems, budget from the applicant’s previously Century Librarian Program.
conduct business process analysis, etc. funded project with the grant amount A copy of the proposed information
and how this supports improvements to proposed in the Sustainability LOI. collection request can be obtained by
you pro bono program. LSC’s expectation is that applicants will contacting the individual listed below
3. Sustainability Grants propose a meaningful shift from Pro in the ADDRESSES section of this notice.
Bono Innovation Fund support to other DATES: Written comments must be
The LOI Narrative for Sustainability sources of support during the grant submitted to the office listed in the
Grants should respond to the following term. addressee section below on or before
questions. • A narrative discussing the potential February 2, 2018.
a. Justification for Sustaining the Pro sources of funding that have been or IMLS is particularly interested in
Bono Innovation Project. Please describe will be cultivated. If the project has comments that help the agency to:
why you are seeking Sustainability already received new financial support, • Evaluate whether the proposed
Grant. In your response, please discuss please provide the source and amount collection of information is necessary
the following: committed and further describe the for the proper performance of the
• The impact of the Pro Bono plans for ensuring continued financial functions of the agency, including
Innovation Fund project to date, support. whether the information will have
supported by data and analysis as to
Dated: November 30, 2017. practical utility;
whether the goals of the project were
Stefanie K. Davis, • Evaluate the accuracy of the
achieved.
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
• Evidence of ongoing client need Assistant General Counsel.
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• The level of engagement of pro methodology and assumptions used;
• Enhance the quality, utility, and
bono volunteers/private bar and the best
clarity of the information to be
practices in pro bono delivery that can THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR collected; and
be replicated by others. THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES • Minimize the burden of the
• How ongoing program evaluation
collection of information on those who
and data collection will be incorporated Institute of Museum and Library are to respond, including through the
into the project. Services
b. Project Staff and Management use of appropriate automated electronic,
Support. Please briefly identify and mechanical, or other technological
Notice of Proposed Information collection techniques, or other forms of
describe the project team and project Collection Requests: 2019–2021 IMLS
partners. In your response, please information technology, e.g., permitting
National Leadership Grants for electronic submissions of responses.
include the following: Libraries/Laura Bush 21st Century
• The project staff that will be Librarian Program Notice of Funding
ADDRESSES: Send comments to: Dr.
responsible for the sustainability phase Sandra Webb, Senior Advisor, Office of
Opportunity
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to seek this Sustainability Grant and SUMMARY: The Institute of Museum and persons with hearing difficulty at 202–
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Please describe what you would like the provide the general public and federal The Institute of Museum and Library
Sustainability Grant to fund. In your agencies with an opportunity to Services is the primary source of federal
response, please be sure to provide the comment on proposed and/or support for the nation’s approximately
following information: continuing collections of information in 120,000 libraries and 35,000 museums
• Estimated total project cost. This accordance with the Paperwork and related organizations. Our mission
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