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NISO Two-Part Webinar, Finding the Funding, Part Two - Strategic Approaches to Funding Scholarly Initiatives

Aside from funding libraries themselves, there are many innovative projects that might never be accomplished without the support of grants from foundations of various sizes and sorts. What are the current trends? The speakers in this event will identify and examine those trends and share what their impact on the academic environment might be.
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NISO Webinar

Helping people gain a greater understanding of the information community — our issues and concerns, challenges and opportunities — is core to NISO's mission. Our events are a key element of this, with our popular webinar program at their heart. And, following the NISO/NFAIS merger earlier this year, all NISO members can now attend all 14 webinars in 2020 completely free of charge! This includes an unlimited number of places and full access to a recording of each webinar for anyone who is unable to attend the event itself.
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Angi Faiks

Associate Library Director, Macalester College


Angi Faiks is the Associate Library Director and her professional interests include library innovation, information access and literacy advocacy, libraries as community space, maker movements, and working towards diversity in librarianship and STEM. She takes enormous pride in the thoughtful creativity and innovation exemplified by librarians in meeting the needs of community members. She focuses on fostering positive change, encouraging bold new ideas, and building partnerships in order to ensure excellence in what the library offers today and well into the future.
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Kate Tkacik

Director of Network Engagement, The Foundation Center


Kate Tkacik is director of Network Engagement at Foundation Center. She leads the direction, growth, and deeper engagement of the Funding Information Network, comprised of more than 400 local resource centers which support their nonprofit and social entrepreneurs with access to Foundation Center’s funding data and resources. Kate has worked in information literacy roles and the nonprofit sector for over a decade, with unique experiences serving teens, college students, nonprofits, and even investment bankers. She firmly believes in the power of informed communities to drive social change.
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Phil Ward

Deputy Director, Research Services, University of Kent


Phil Ward is the Deputy Director of Research Services at the University of Kent in the UK. He manages the Research Development Team, which keeps an eye on the wider research landscape, helps academics identify the most appropriate funding schemes for them, and supports them in drafting successful applications. He was previously at the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council, and has written and edited for Research Professional. He writes the Research Fundermentals blog, and was named one of the top 50 higher education social media influencers by Jisc.
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Raym Crow

Senior Consultant, SPARC


Raym Crow, Senior Consultant with SPARC, provides publishing and sustainability planning services to learned and professional societies, academic libraries, university presses, cultural heritage organizations, digital publishing projects, and other nonprofit initiatives. Crow has over 30 years’ experience in academic and scholarly publishing, specializing in business models for journals, monographs, digital humanities projects, and infrastructure services. He specializes in developing collective funding models to support the provision of open resources.
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Ron Joslin

Research & Instruction Librarian, Sciences, Macalester College


Ron Joslin is the Research and Instruction Librarian to the Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science. He is the OER program coordinator and is the Macalester representative to the Open Textbook Network. He has participated in many professional development opportunities related to open textbooks and has led several workshops and presentations on open textbook adoption and creation both on campus and at library conferences.  In addition to successfully obtaining grants to support our OER efforts, he has also successfully implemented an OER stipend program and has worked to create partnerships both on and off campus to promote the use of OER in classrooms.