www.authorsandmore.com

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• www.authorsandmore.com
• Carole Weitzel
• President
• Email carole_at_authorsandmore.com
• 512 914-2596

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What is Authors and More ?

• A booking agency for authors, storytellers and
  other presenters.
• An agency owned by a librarian who knows what a
  presenter needs and what a school needs in a
  presenter.
• An agency that will work with you to help you
  find the right author for your event.
• Liaison with the author, publisher, and librarian.

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Visit Tips

• Start your planning
• What's your budget
• a. Honorarium or fee
• b. Travel expenses
• 1. Flight, car rental, and/or mileage
• 2. Hotel
• 3. Meals or per Diem

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What's most important to you?

• Identify the author or storyteller that best fits
  your event.
• Date It would be best to have 3 available
  dates.
• If you must have a specific date are you
  flexible with the presenter?
• Price range

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How to make a great event without breaking the
budget

• Prepare the audience
• Publicize the event
• Library website
• Parent Links, emails
• Public Library
• Create excitement for the author visit
• Read the books
• Learn about the author
• Check for equipment needs

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What the author needs
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Saving Ideas

• Is there another school in your district which
  also wants to schedule the author the same week?
• Sometimes an author will discount their fee when
  they are booked for more than one school in the
  same week in the same area.
• Authors and More can help with booking authors
  for more than one day from surrounding districts
  thus saving costs for everyone.

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Saving Ideas (cont.)

• Check with the Public Library
• Community groups in the area may book the
  author/storyteller for an evening performance
• Book Clubs
• Ladies or Men's groups
• Look for a community sponsor

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Funding Sources

• TCA - Texas Commission on the Arts
  Anina Moore
• http//www.arts.state.tx.us/
• PTAs - Be proactive with the PTA , ask to be on
  the programs committee.
• Book Fairs - Tell parents the book fair is
  raising money to bring authors to the school. Let
  them know that the profits benefit the students
  and how you plan to use it.

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Funding Sources (cont.)

• Corporate grants
• Most large companies have a grant program
• Education grants
• Some of these are listed later in the slides

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Corporate Grants

• A Plus educational foundation rewards
• www.aplusfcu.org
• Email educationfoundation_at_aplusfcu.org
  Applications available Feb. with a May deadline
• Bank of America Corporate Philanthropy
• http//www.bankofamerica.com/foundation/

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Corporate Grants (cont.)

• Capital One Contributions and partnership
• http//capitalone.com/about/corporate-citizens
  hip/partnership
• Kohls Associates in Action
  http//www.kohlscorporation.com/CommunityRelations
  /Community04D.htm
• When a minimum of 5 Kohl associates from one
  location volunteer for 3 consecutive hours for a
  youth-serving nonprofit organization, associates
  help the nonprofit earn a 500 grant.
• Starbucks Foundation
• http//starbucks.com

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Corporate Grants (cont.)

• Target Arts and culture in schools
• www.target.com/grants
• Target Take charge of education
• Redcard holders give 5 to the school of their
  choice on their purchases. Promote this with
  your parents and staff. Checks are given to the
  school in September. School's status can be
  checked online at anytime for the balance.

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Corporate Grants (cont.)

• Wachovia and Wells Fargo
• https//www.wellsfargo.com/about/charitable/tx_gui
  delines
• Walmart and Sam's Club Giving Program
• http//walmartstores.com/CommunityGiving/8916.aspx

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Education Grants

• Adopt-A-Classroom
• http//www.adoptaclassroom.org/index.aspx
• American Library Association
• http//www.ala.org/ala/awardsgrants/awardgov/award
  apps/index.cfm
• Donors Choose
• http//www.donorschoose.org
• Institute of Museum and Library Services
• http//www.imls.gov/applicants/name.shtm

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Education Grants (cont.)

• International Reading Association
• http//www.reading.org/Resources/AwardsandGrants.a
  spx
• Lee and Low Books
• http//www.leeandlow.com/p/administrators_grants.m
  html
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• http//www.neh.gov/grants/index.html
• National Storytelling Network
• http//storynet.org/programs/grants/index.html

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Education Grants (cont.)

• School grants
• http//schoolgrants.org
• Society of Children's Book Writers and
  Illustrators
• http//www.scbwi.org/Pages.aspx/About-School-Visit
  s
• Texas chapter
• http//www.scbwi.org/Regional-Chapters.aspx?R47
• U. S. Department of Education
• http//www2.ed.gov/fund/grants-apply.html

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Education Grants (cont.)

• The Wallace Foundation
• http//www.wallacefoundation.org/GrantsPrograms/Pa
  ges/default.aspx

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