National Home Library Foundation

Applications should be in writing. No specific form is required, but they should include the following:

-Legal name and full description of the organization or institution making the application, with list of officers and principal staff.

-Clear, concise statement of need for which a grant is requested

-A proposed budget in detail for use of the requested funds

-Evidence of tax-exempt status, along with a financial statement for the preceding year.

Your incentive grant for $1500 will allow us to purchase materials for over 200 adult basic education and English as a Second Language students.  Your gift will definitely improve the lives of some very dedicated learners in the Asheville and Buncombe County area. Thank you.

Director, Literacy Council of Buncombe Co., NC

The NHLF awarded a generous grant of $1000 for the purchase of classroom books.  I have held off thanking you until I could report the results of the purchases.  Through the use of paperback book clubs we were able to purchase 595 books for our third, fourth and fifth grade classrooms. Thank you.

Barbara Hutcherson, Literacy Specialist, Woodland Elementary, KY

Foundation Policy

-Grants are made only to organizations that are tax exempt under Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code and only to applicants that do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, sexual orientation or gender.

-Grants are not made to individuals.  Grants are not made to organizations that seek to influence legislation or to intervene in political campaigns.  Grants are not made to international organizations or for programs outside the United States.

-Grants are not made for loans, conferences, scholarships, endowments, construction or operating budgets.