Two of NCFL's partners in literacy are offering exciting grant opportunities.

Dollar General Literacy Foundation Grants

The Dollar General Literacy Foundation is an incredible national and local supporter of literacy programs, including National Center for Family Literacy initiatives. The Foundation funds family literacy programs in each of the 35 states where they have stores and is offering grants up to $20,000 to family literacy service providers.

The application is available online. Deadline to apply is February 25. For more information, visit www.dgliteracy.com.

To check and see if you live in a qualifying state, check out this map.

And for the many programs looking to expand their summer reading programs, the Dollar General Literacy Foundation Summer Reading Grants program offers grants up to $3,000. Learn more here.

Cooney Center Prizes for Innovation in Children's Learning

One of NCFL's literacy partners, The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, is accepting applications for the inaugural Cooney Center Prizes for Innovation in Children's Learning, a national competition intended to identify, inspire, nurture, and scale breakthrough ideas in children's digital media and learning. The program will annually award cash prizes and provide ongoing business planning support to innovators in children's educational media.

The Cooney Center is challenging innovators in two categories: Breakthroughs in Mobile Learning and Breakthroughs in Literacy Learning. Up to five finalists in each category will be invited to pitch their ideas to media industry and education leaders at an event held at this year's E3 Expo. This year's prizes include $50,000 towards prototype development in the Mobile Learning category and $10,000 and the opportunity to work with Sesame Workshop to turn a literacy idea into a product for national dissemination via Sesame Workshop's revival of the iconic literacy show, The Electric Company.

Learn more about the grants here.