Funding Environmental Action at Your Local Library
February 27, 2025 2 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
In communities across the country, libraries play an important role in building community resilience to climate change. Libraries serve as accessible community spaces that foster knowledge building and civic engagement. In small communities, local libraries play an especially crucial role as a community gathering space. In this installment of our TCTAC Webinar Series for Small Municipal Governments, we’ll hear from two communities where libraries nurtured climate action with support from federal grants.
First, Librarian Brenda Harrington and Sarah Kirn from Belfast, Maine will share about how the Belfast Free Library won an Institute for Museum and Library Services grant to fund the All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues. The program engaged a broad range of Belfast residents in conversations about climate change and documented the communities’ ideas and priorities for climate action.
