Let's Talk About It: Women's Suffrage: Grant Support Materials (for Grantees)
Scholarly Essay
Each of the themes in the Let’s Talk About It program features a series of five books selected for reading and discussion, accompanied by a scholarly essay and set of discussion questions.
Download the essay for Let’s Talk About It: Women's Suffrage.
This essay contains background information on the subject, discussion questions for each of the five books and programming ideas to assist with the planning and implementation of your Let's Talk About It: Women's Suffrage grant.
Let's Talk About It Programming Guide
When planning a Let’s Talk About It program, you may wish to consult the Programming Guide for general how-to information about program format, selecting a scholar, promoting your series, evaluation, and more.
Download the Let's Talk About It Programming Guide.
Spending Grant Funds
Your use of the grant funds should align with the plans you outlined in the Budget narrative section of your grant proposal.
We understand that sometimes things change. If you anticipate a variance of more than 10% of the total award amount (i.e., $100) in any of your planned expenses, please submit a request in writing to publicprograms@ala.org.
Promotional Materials
Read ALA's press release announcing the 25 LTAI: Women's Suffrage libraries (Published Jan. 27, 2022)
Ready-Made Templates/Graphics
Announcing Your Grant
The following templates can be used to share the news that you have received an LTAI: Women's Suffrage grant and to briefly explain your plans. You can distribute these any time after ALA announces the grant. Note: Feel free to tweak wording but please keep ALA and NEH acknowledgments, tags, and hashtags in place.
- Announcement press release template (Word Document): Use this template to share the news of your grant with local media.
- Social media post template (Word Document): Use these templates to post the news of your grant on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or other social media channels.
Feel free to create your own social media posts. Please tag ALA or NEH whenever possible using the following handles:
American Library Association
- Twitter: @ALALibrary
- Instagram: @AmericanLibraryAssociation
National Endowment for the Humanities
Note: The official social media hashtag for Let's Talk About It is #LibraryLTAI
LTAI: Women's Suffrage themed slide deck template
- Slide deck template for LTAI: Women's Suffrage presentations (click to download .pptx)
- Color theme for LTAI: Women's Suffrage slides (click to download .thmx)
- To import this color theme, open your presentation slides in Power Point. On the Design tab, in the Themes group, click the drop-down arrow. Now click Browse for Themes. A new window will open, where you need to select the presentation (Suffrage.thmx) that contains the theme you want to import.
Printable Materials
Graphics
Add these graphics to your library’s website or social media channels when talking about LTAI: Women's Suffrage work.
Acknowledgment and Credit Statement
If you create your own promotional materials for your grant, please include proper logos and acknowledgment.
Acknowledgment to use in print materials and verbal credit during programs: LTAI: Women’s Suffrage is a humanities discussion project from the American Library Association (ALA) supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
Logos: Grant recipients are authorized to use logos only for LTAI: Women's Suffrage project purposes for the duration of the grant. Please use logos in print material and programming material (presentation slides, handouts, etc.) for your project.
- ALA Logo stacked color jpg
- ALA Logo long color jpg
- NEH Logo color jpg
- NEH Logo black jpg
- NEH Logo transparent .png
- LTAI Logo main jpg
- LTAI Logo horizontal jpg
- LTAI Logo main transparent .png
- LTAI Logo horizontal transparent .png
Gentle Reminder about Copyright
The American Library Association is the copyright owner of all the essays and annotations associated with the "Let's Talk About It" themes. The credit lines embedded in the program materials and/or sponsor and funder logos must remain on all published (print and web) materials derived from these "Let's Talk About It" themes.
Final Report Walkthrough
You can watch the video below for instructions on completing your final report. The final report for Let's Talk About It: Women's Suffrage is due October 31, 2022. To access the final report, log in to the grants system here. Please reach out to publicprograms@ala.org if you have any questions about accessing or completing the final report.
