>> Olivia Dorsey: Thank you for joining us for the higher education informational webinar for connecting communities digital initiative grants. And in this webinar we'll share more about the higher education opportunity. Next slide please. Before we get much further, I should let you all know that this webinar is being recorded. And it will be available later on for viewing at a later time. Throughout this webinar please post any questions that you may have in the Q & A feature of Zoom. And for this webinar I'm joined by some of my team here. My name is Olivia Dorsey. I'm a Program Specialist within the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative, also known as CCDI. My colleague, Erika Gault is also here. She's also a Program Specialist within CCDI. We'll also be joined by Miriam Grinberg, who's within the Contracts and Grants Division at the library. Sahar Kazmi is supporting us today from OCIO Comms with webinar support. We also have Lori Kearse here who is with us on the CCDI team, and she'll be posting links in the chat throughout the presentation. Marya McQuirter is the Program Director for CCDI, and she'll be available here as well. And we may also be visited by Hope O'Keeffe who is part of the Office of General Counsel who will be available to assist with any question, specifically related to more legal related questions. And any additional questions can be emailed to loc/grants@loc.gov and that's been posted into the chat. Next slide please. So in this hour we have a lot to get through. But this is essentially what you can expect. So I'm going to chat about of the people. About the connecting communities digital initiative. Provide an overview of the higher education grant opportunity. Explain how to apply for this opportunity. Provide some examples for inspiration. And then we'll also have time for questions that you may have about applying for this opportunity and things like that. Next slide please. So of the people widening the path is a multi-year initiative that creates new opportunities for more Americans to engage with the Library of Congress, and to add their perspectives to the Library's collections. Allowing the national library to share a more inclusive American story. Of the people widening the path is funded by the Mellon Foundation. And CCDI is within the Of the People widening the path initiative. Next slide please. Now of the people has three programmatic arms. The interns and fellowships program. The American Folklife Center, also has their own grants including their community collections grants, which I'll share a little bit more information about a little bit later on. And then also the digital strategy directorate, which is essentially where connecting communities digital initiative or CCDI lives within the Library of Congress. Next slide please. For the internships and fellowships program it basically is a program that enables undergraduate and graduate students to experience integrated analog and digital collections and services at the Library of Congress. In CCDI we currently have six junior fellows who are our interns that have been working with us this summer. And their time with us actually ends at the end of July. By the fall the internships and fellowships program should have more information regarding the 2023 internships program at the Library; so stay tuned for that information. Next slide please. In addition, the American Folklife Center has community collections grants, which support cultural documentation by communities. AFC, also known as the American Folklife Center will offer training on cultural documentation methods, such as interviews, photography and etc. as well as the preparation and management of digital files. Applications for this opportunity are currently available and they're open until August 1, 2022. If you'd like to learn more about this opportunity, the American Folklife Center is also hosting their own informational webinars about these opportunities. And you can register for those webinars and learn more information about their community collections grants by visiting the Of the People website, which we've linked in the chat there. Next slide please. For CCDI we currently have two grant opportunities open. The higher education grant opportunity, which is the reason why you all are here today. But we also have the grant for Library's archives and museums. For this grant we're offering up to $50,000 to support three local cultural heritage institutions by enabling storytelling across a wide range of platforms. These grants are for up to 12 months. And these funds will support the creation of projects that make significant and meaningful uses of the Library's digital materials. We're looking for projects that center the lives, experiences and perspectives of one or more of the following groups, Black, Indigenous, Hispanic or Latina, Asian American and Pacific Islander and/or other communities of color. And we've linked to our web page which provides more information about that grant opportunity. Now if you are a library archive or museum that's located at a higher institution, higher education institution, you should apply for the higher education grant. These libraries archives and museums grants are intended for public libraries, non-profit libraries, archives and museums. And the application deadline for this opportunity is September 30, by 12:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Next slide please. For the minorities serving higher education institutions grant, we're also offering up to $50,000 to support up to three higher education institutions by enabling storytelling across a wide range of platforms. These grants are also available for up to 12 months. And the application deadline for this grant opportunity is September 30 by 12:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. And what we're looking for with these projects is to support the creation of projects that facilitate teaching and learning with the libraries digital collections for students, staff and/or community members. And make significant and meaningful use of those digital materials. And again, these projects should center the lives, experiences and perspectives of one or more of the following groups. Black, Indigenous, Hispanic or Latino, Asian American and Pacific Islander and/or other communities of color. And we've linked to our web page which provides more information about that grant opportunity there. Next slide please. So now I'm going to take some time to go through the notice for the higher education grant. For all of these opportunities within CCDI our best advice is to read the entire notice. And the notice provides all of the necessary information that you need in order to successfully apply for a grant. Now while all of the sections within the notice are important, at this point we highly suggest that you review these sections first. And these include section A, which contains information about the program in a little bit more detail. Section C, which provides information about eligibility requirements. Section D provides application and submission information. And Section E provides application review and award. That being said, we suggest you start with these sections, but we also encourage you to read the entire notice to get a better understanding of the application process. Next slide please. So how do you get to the notice? Well first we recommend going to the of the people website, which we've linked in the chat here. Once you're there, go to the represent section. And that's highlighted on the slide here at the top. Next slide please. And then once you click on that, you'll want to take a look at the menu to the left, where we've highlighted CCDI grant for higher education application. So you'll click on that. Next slide please. Once you're on that page, if you scroll down the page you'll see the link to the notice under the first commonly asked questions, which is highlighted here. And it says notice of funding opportunity notice. Next slide please. If you scroll further down that page you'll also find it under resources. Under grant program information. Next slide please. So now I'll just take a few minutes here to explore the notice with you and share the different sections in a little bit more detail. Now when you first open the notice, this is what it looks like. So you'll see on the first page kind of like the cover page of the notice itself. And then on the second page you'll see a table of contents for each section. The notice itself is 23 pages long, and so that's - that's one of the reasons why we suggest taking a look at those sections that I called out earlier. Next slide please. And here are the sections that we highlighted earlier. As I mentioned while reading all of the sections is important, we highly recommend reviewing these first so you can get used to the format of the document as you navigate and learn more about this opportunity. Next slide please. And so now we'll just take a moment to jump into the notice in a little bit more detail. Next slide please. So section A is the first section that I called out, where we have more information about the program itself. Here we explain how many grants we're offering and - and what amount. And as part of this program, one of the reasons that the library wants this reported is because the library wants to expand the connections between the library and the public and strengthen the use of Library of Congress digital collections and digital tools. The Library is seeking to award a grant to support the creative and wide-ranging use of the Library's collections and the connective powers of technology to serve Black, Indigenous, Hispanic or Latino, Asian American and Pacific Islander and/or other communities of color in the United States. And this includes the 50 United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the North Mariana Islands and the US Virgin Islands. Next slide please. We'd like to emphasize that your projects do not have to be digital projects. So the key here is that your project uses digital collections and materials that center the lives of communities of color. I'll also note here that we're looking for projects that engage students and/or community members. And we also encourage you to think creatively about the projects that you submit. Next slide please. Regarding eligibility information, there are three main - or four main points rather that you want to keep in mind. So for the higher education grant opportunity you should be a two year or four-year minority serving higher education institution. You should also be a non-profit. You should be based in any of the 50 US states, the District of Columbia, territories and commonwealths including Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa and the US Virgin Islands. And proposing - you should propose a project to be conducted within the United States or US Commonwealth or territory. Next slide please. So with the help of Miriam Grinberg, who is one of our colleagues within Contracts and Grants, she's developed several documents to help guide you as you complete your application. One of those documents is the Application Checklist. So if you go back to that higher education application page, under commonly asked questions you'll find that application checklist, which leads you through all of the documents that you need to complete for your application. As a note too, so we have a screenshot of the application checklist here. And one of the first items on that checklist is to get registered with Sam.gov. Now sam.gov is - is a system that you should create an account for in order to complete your application. You must have an account with sam.gov in order to successfully complete an application for this opportunity. Next slide please. On the higher education application page, you will also find a project narrative template, which you'll need to use for the proposal cover page. And the proposal details portion of your project narrative. And for more detail on the project narrative, and what we're looking for in that, you can turn to page eight, section D.5.1 of the notice. I'll point out here we also have another screen shot. But this is of the project narrative template. So we have a cover page for the template here. And we also have the notice of funding opportunity number listed at the top. If you go back to the notice and look at the very top section of the notice, they'll be a string of numbers and characters. And you'll want to make sure to include that on the cover page here. It's just a unique identifier for this grant opportunity. Next slide please. On that same higher education application page you'll find the budget plan worksheet template. And you'll use this to develop your budget plan. So there are multiple components to your budget materials. And you'll find more information on those on page 10, section D.5.2 in the notice. And so you have your budget plan worksheet, which involves using this template. You also have a budget narrative and the differences between the two are such that for the template you'll use it to define these discreet items here. And for the budget narrative, you're going to be using that to draw clear connection between the expenses and the proposed project activities and objectives. Now this is also distinct from the proposal narrative. So the budget narrative is to draw connections between your expenses and your proposed project activities and objectives. And the proposal narrative gets more into the details of what you're trying to accomplish with your project. The budget categories for the budget plan worksheet include salaries, wages and benefits, travel equipment, supplies, contractual and other cost as applicable to your project. Next slide please. Lastly on the higher education page you'll find the SF424 form. You'll also need to complete this as part of your application. This is a required form for any organization that are applying for federal assistance. So you definitely want to fill this out. Next slide please. So now I'm going to go through several pieces of evaluation criteria. You may be wondering how we're evaluating applications as they come in and so hopefully this will give you some sense of what we're looking for. So we have three different categories, and the first of those is advancement of program goals. And we're looking at answering questions such as does the project center the lives experiences and perspectives of one or more of the following groups, Black, Indigenous, Hispanic or Latino, Asian American or Pacific Islander, and/or other communities of color? Will the project make significant and meaningful use of digital materials from the Library of Congress? Will the project facilitate teaching and learning with digital library collections for students, staff and/or community members? And you can find more information regarding our evaluation criteria on page 16, section E1 of the notice. Next slide please. We're also going to be looking at project feasibility. So we call this feasibility of successful project outcomes. We're going to be looking at answering questions such as does the Library have digital materials and collections needed for a successful project? Has the applicant identified and provided links to the digital materials and collections? Has the applicant addressed whether those digital materials and collections are legally available for the proposed uses? For example, are there restrictions on the use of the materials? If you've ever gone to the Library of Congresses collections pages, if you scroll down the page on a specific collection or specific material, there's a rights and access section. And that will definitely become your best friend as you try to evaluate whether or not you'll be able to use those materials. There should be some clear language there indicating whether or not you'll be able to use those. Whether or not it has access or not. If you still aren't sure, you can reach out to the librarian through the Library's Ask a Librarian service. And we'll provide more information on how to do that later on in this presentation. As far as other questions we're looking at for feasibility, has the applicant addressed whether they have the permissions and clearances to share and use materials from their own collections or other collections included in the proposal. And finally, does the institution and any collaborators consultants and/or service providers possess the skills necessary for successful completion of the project? Next slide please. Finally we'll be looking at your budget. And we'll be looking at the reasonableness of cost and likelihood the budget will support project execution. So we'll be asking does the applicants proposal indicate that the project can be completed within a 12-month period? Are the costs allowable under the cost principles found in 2 CFR 200 sub part E.? I'm sorry for the government kind of legalize there. But we will also provide a link to that as well, so that you can understand exactly what we mean by that language. If cost sharing, does the proposed cost share comply with relevant standards? 2 CFR 200.306 standard provision cost sharing matching for US entities. And if you'll take a look in the chat, thank you Miriam. Miriam has posted a link to that CFR for more information. And then finally, are costs reasonable and effective for project completion? Next slide please. Now when it comes to submitting your grants, again the deadline is September 30 by 12:00 noon Eastern Standard Time. Your grants should be emailed to loc/grants@loc.gov. We do not accept applications through grants.gov. However you can view the notice on grants.gov if you'd like to. So again, you want to make sure to submit your applications to loc/grants@loc.gov. Next slide please. Now what is you need any assistance, or you have questions? Well we are available to help you out. If you have questions, please email us at loc/grants@loc.gov with the subject including that notice opportunity number. So this string of numbers and characters here is the notice number for the higher education grant opportunity. So that basically lets us know that you're communicating about this specific opportunity. We'll be accepting questions through - about the application process through September 23 at noon Eastern Standard Time. We're also getting questions from you all during the webinar as well, so as you have questions please feel free to post them into the Q & A for the end of this presentation. Next slide please. And we have a few examples here. Just to give you an idea of the possible projects you could submit for an application. Again, we highly encourage you to be as creative as possible, so this is definitely not the limit of what you can submit to us for your application. As far as a few examples that I'll highlight here, a platform that showcases library materials and community materials associated with a particular community's traditions or history and invites students to record oral history to be shared with the community. A podcast series that showcases unique finds from the library and community materials, and invites students to produce, plan and provide commentary or conduct interviews during each episode. So again, this is not the limit of what you can submit to us. We encourage you to be as creative as possible. And look forward to seeing your applications. Next slide please. So we just wanted to highlight our inaugural higher education grant recipient, which is Huston-Tillotson University. And they're based in Austin, Texas. And we have pictured here Brea Browne who is the Project Lead for their project, Harlem Renaissance meets Huston-Tillotson University. They started their grant two months ago in late April. And as I mentioned Brea Browne is pictured here. She is the lead for the project. And she's also the university archivist at Huston-Tillotson. Their project is based in Austin, Texas. And for their project they will be pairing the Library's digital collections including Harlem Renaissance Era photographs from printed photographs with the University Archival Material from the 1920's and '03's. Selected students will also use those materials to create their own original artwork including fiction, art, dance and fashion. Their creative work and the archival material will be used to create physical and virtual exhibitions that will enable audiences to understand Austin, and Harlem in the 1920's and '30's. And the exhibit will be open to Huston-Tillotson students, faculty, staff as well as residents in Austin, Texas. Next slide please. So I just want to take some time to provide the landscape of different ways in which you can find materials at the Library of Congress. So first off you can go to loc.gov/collections to find our digital collections here. And in this screenshot you'll notice that I typed in Hispanic in the keyword search box here. And these were just some of the results that came up. That being said, one thing that we really want to highlight is to be creative about the keyword choices that you use whenever you're searching on our digital collections. For example, if I search Latin-X instead of Hispanic, I probably would get different search results. So just keep that in mind as you're looking for materials to work with, within our collections. Next slide please. I also want to highlight that the Library has born digital items. And some of these include items found in the web archives collection, which we've highlighted here. The manuscripts division at the Library also has a great blog post on some of the libraries born digital materials that are held in their own collections, so you definitely want to check that out as well in case you haven't been considering born digital materials. Next slide please. We also recommend using the Library's LIB guides, also known as Library Guides, which provide an overview of the Library's holdings as it relates to a specific topic. You can access the Library's LIB guides by going to the URL that's posted here as well as in the chat. Guides@loc.gov. And here in this screen shot you'll see that the LIB guides are - LIB guides are categorized into 81 subjects. And counting, the Library is constantly working on adding more LIB guides to their collection. And as you'll see here there's a wide range of different topics and subjects that the Library covers. And there's also different ways in which the Library describes those different topics and materials. For example at the bottom here we have LGBTQ plus studies. And so just keep that in mind as you're - you're searching and you're trying to use different key words, where you may want to use queer studies to search for those specific materials. In this instance the Library is using LGBTQ plus studies. So that's just an example of differences and key words and how they're used. Next slide please. Finally if you have questions about our materials, one of the things I mentioned previously was our ask a librarian service. And that is one of the best ways to get in contact with library staff. So to get to that service you'll want to go to ask@loc.gov and there you can submit a research question. And staff from the Library and any of their reading rooms will assist you in your research process. Now when you go to this page, there are a couple of tabs for asking a specialist, asking a general question and browsing frequently asked questions that others have asked. For the first two for asking a specialist and asking a general question, you submit your question into a form on the page. And then that will get sent off to our specialist for them to answer you. The Library also offers a chat service with ask a librarian. And that's offered Monday through Friday between noon and 4:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. We have the link to that in the chat. Next slide please. And that's it for the presentation portion of this webinar. At this time we'll take any questions that you may have about this opportunity. >> Thanks so much Olivia. So we do have one question in so far, but we do encourage everyone who has additional questions, specific or general please put them in the Q & A. We would love to answer them. So Olivia the first question is are the 50k grants for one year or can you apply for multi-year funding? >> Olivia Dorsey: So my understanding is that the 50k grants are only available for one year. And they're not available for multi-year funding. >> Thank you. And just let me know if there's any part of the presentation I can go back to while we await further questions. If you wanted to specifically note anything for the audience, but in the meantime again, please do put your questions in the Q & A. We would be happy to answer them. >> Olivia Dorsey: One thing I can note is that I mentioned that answers to questions from the public that are emailed to loc/grants@loc.gov will be posted online for viewing at a later time. >> Thanks Olivia. >> Olivia Dorsey: Yeah no problem. >> Okay another question. Okay so this person asks if we can go back and review the slide with the subject line for questions. >> Olivia Dorsey: Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Olivia Dorsey: That should be slide 29. >> Great. Thanks Olivia. >> Olivia Dorsey: Yeah no problem. >> Okay so there's that info. And also our representative from Office of General Counsel is also on the line in case we have any specific questions. >> Olivia Dorsey: Perfect. I will also say that - so this webinar is being recorded. The webinar will also be posted on the Of the People website as well. At this link that's indicated here on this slide. And that page will also have - or does also have additional information regarding submitting questions and the numbers for the notice that you should include in the subject, should you need to reference it later too. Now if we have some time I can also share a little bit about the notice in a little bit more detail and screen share that too. >> Yeah that sounds good Olivia. It doesn't look like we have any questions coming in right now. So I will stop sharing - oh, we just have one more. >> Olivia Dorsey: Okay. >> Okay so here is something. Can institutions apply as partners? Or is the application for single institution only? >> Olivia Dorsey: My understanding is that it's a single application. But I invite any of my colleagues to correct me if I'm wrong on that. >> That's a really great question. And yeah Miriam I'm not sure if you have answer to that for - like currently we have the Kitt and County Public Library that's serving as the Library archive and museum inaugural recipient and the Kitt and County Public Library applied and then partnered with others. But I'm assuming your answer is there's two different institutions that both - that want to serve as kind of equal partners on the grant. I'm actually not sure - I'm not sure about that. That's the question that we'll have to get back you on. And actually I would suggest you emailing loc/grants@loc.gov. Send us that question and then we can respond to you. I don't know if Miriam, you have another thought on that. >> I was going to recommend the same action. Because I was looking through the notice and the only times I see partner mentioned are with reference to what you were talking about. Where sometimes an organization might include contractual budget when they're working with the partner institution to pay them for services rendered on the award. And then I see a reference to a partner entity in the cost sharing section. Which is basically where the applicant would describe if there is another institution or a partner other entity contributing to the project with any cash or in-kind contributions. But nothing about applying with another institution. >> Okay thank you. This attendee will send us an email. Thank you. Okay so Olivia I'll hand the screen over to you now. And I'll just chime in if there are any additional questions for the team. >> Olivia Dorsey: Sounds great. Thank you Sahar. Okay. So hopefully you all can see my screen. So this is what the notice looks like for the higher education opportunity. As I mentioned, there's a string of characters for the notice number that you want to keep in mind when you're filling out your applications. You'll want to have this handy. You'll also want to have it handy whenever you're communicating with us, and you have questions about the opportunity. So it's located right here on the first page. It's also located at the top left on I believe all the pages as well. And this is the table of contents. So I showed you a little bit of the program description as well as the eligibility information. And some of these other sections as well. So just providing a little bit of an overview of what all is in here. I do want to draw your attention to appendix A, which provides information on sam.gov. As I mentioned, you must be registered with sam.gov in order to complete an application. And so this appendix just details how exactly you do that. And it's got a couple of screen shots here as well to try to assist with that process. And you can also - if you run into issues with registering with sam.gov, you can request assistance with that too. I'm going to go back to the table of contents and see if there's anything else that might be helpful. So in section D we have a lot of information about the application submission process. Including your point of contact. What to do if you have questions as well as the application package requirements for submission and submission requirements. I'm going to go ahead and go to the package and submission requirements actually. And so here it's just really indicating all submissions must be in English, must be submitted on the due date at the time specified in the section above. It mentions that SF 424 Form and the fact that you have to submit that as well. If you go down to section D.5.1 which I believe I called out earlier. It provides more information about the proposal narrative and format. So it basically tells you what you should include such as your cover sheet, the narrative itself and any appendices. And the fact that the main body of the proposal should not be longer than five double spaced pages and 11-point font. And then it breaks down the sections, so for the cover page these are the items we're looking for. As well as what you should include in the appendices if you have any. And the project or the proposal narrative template will also walk you through this too. There's also other documents you may want to submit too. As they're applicable to your specific situation. And those are just some of those. Now if I scroll down a little bit further to the next section, this is where you see information about the budget narrative and plan. And so you should submit two documents for the budget including the budget plan workbook, which we have a template for that. Which I went over. And then also the budget narrative, which differs from the proposal narrative. And so the main point of this budget narrative is to connect your budget to what you're proposing to do for your project. Then there's a breakdown of your specific budget items. And this table here is really handy because it provides more information about the specific categories within your budget and essentially what we're looking to see, not only in the budget narrative itself, but also the budget plan workbook. So for example this talks about salaries, wages and benefits. It talks about distinction between project staff versus project volunteers. Travel, equipment, supplies, contractors and any other direct costs as well. Now we do have a section about cost sharing. And there's no requirement for matching funds or cost sharing from institutions applying for this grant. And there's additional information about that here. We also have links to the various CFR's, which provide even more detail about these specific items that you can click on those directly to find out what we're talking about. Now as far as submission requirements, again the reason why we really want you to pay attention to this string of numbers and characters is because it's the notice number. It's the way that we identify the specific opportunity. And so when you submit your application, you should make sure when you submit it through email, to include the opportunity number in the subject line. And to use the following file naming convention. Please don't submit any zip files or lock files, and please don't submit any files through a third-party website like One Drive or Box.com or something like that. Now if you run into any issues with submitting your application, you can also email us at loc/grants@loc.gov. No later than 3:00 p.m. on September 29 Eastern Standard Time will be available to - to assist with any issues you may be having. So for example if your application materials will exceed the limits stated above. Up here. In terms of being larger than 20 megabytes. Or you're unable to send documents on separate emails, you can just send us an email and let us know and we'll try to troubleshoot that a little bit more. Section E really goes into the criteria for proposal evaluation. So I went through the three sections, advancement of program goals, feasibility of successful project outcomes as well as reasonableness of cost and likelihood that budget will support project execution. And so those are just listed here for your reference as you work on your applications. The rest of section E includes information about the notice of federal award. Pre-award risk assessments and also links to various CFR's that kind of break down that information for you. I just want to pause and see if there's any questions coming through. >> No new questions yet. But Olivia and to our attendees, if there are any specific questions about anything that Olivia has mentioned as she's going through the application, and continues to, please feel free to put those in the Q & A. >> Olivia Dorsey: Thanks Sahar. So section F goes into project management and reporting. And this describes the reporting requirements for this grant opportunity under this notice. So approval is needed for any modifications to the proposed work or budget. And so those should be submitted in writing. I'll kind of scroll down to some of the more specific requirements. The project development plan is something that you're required to submit early on within 30 days of award for the Library's approval. And so that basically details major activity and milestones and really provides us with an opportunity to - to see more - in more detail what you're going to be working on during your time with us. For performance and financial reports, so we do require interim reports. And the interim report is due on the sixth month anniversary of the initial award. And this would include a description of activities undertaken, identification of any challenges, and how they were or plan to be resolved, review project expenditures by category and notification of any anticipated changes. And this is like a one-to-two-page document that's sent in a PDF. >> Hey Olivia. Is this considered a federal grant is a question that we just received. >> Olivia Dorsey: Okay. So my understanding is yeah, Maria said in the chat; yes. It is a federal grant. And then for final reports, a final performance report must provide qualitative and quantitative information describing activities paired out and specific results achieved during the period. So that includes things such as description of activities undertaken. A description of reasons why established goals were not met if appropriate. A review of the projects budget, etc. And final reports are due no later than 90 calendar days after the award period of performance end date or termination date. We also want to know if there are any significant developments that happen over the course of the project. So keep that in mind as well. And section G is just pretty much federal award information. So I'll just kind of scroll through this and see if there's anything else in here that kind of stands out. We do have a section on access and use. So this just provides a little more information on that. As I mentioned if you're evaluating a certain collection or certain set of materials from the Library's collections, there should be an about page that provides more information on the rights and access restrictions for that material. So definitely take a look at that as you're looking for items. And then these are your contacts. So whenever you email us at loc/grants@loc.gov Miriam will get to your email. And we'll be able to assist in terms of answering any questions that you may have about this and other grant opportunities. Now in section I we have other information. Another system that you want to be aware of, actually is IPP.gov, which is the Invoice Processing Platform. In this platform allows the recipients to submit payment requests. So once you've been awarded the grant, you'll want to sign up for IPP.gov and you'll use that system to - to request your payments from the grant opportunity. And so the total grant award amount will be paid in three installments. So up to 60% of the invoice may be able to be requested within 30 days following the projects start. Up to 30% within 180 days after project start and the remaining 10% of the invoice can be requested following the receipt of the final project or final report rather. So this is just like some legalize here. This is appendix A for sam.gov, which I reviewed earlier. And then appendix B provides information about assurances, as well as certifications. And that's pretty much the whole notice. So it's definitely a lot of information. I mean it's 23 pages long. But like I said, definitely advise taking a look at the program description section, the eligibility information section as well as a few of these other sections to just kind of get an understanding of what we're looking for in these applications, as well as whether you fit the criteria information before you go throughout the whole application process. It's definitely a lot. So and I guess while we've got a few more minutes, what I can do is share what the Of the people website looks like. And so we've linked to it in the chat several times. But if you go to - >> Olivia can I pause you for just a moment to ask a question that just rolled in? >> Olivia Dorsey: Yeah sure. >> Thanks. So someone asks are specific links to collections required in the application? This person is thinking of a project where students themselves would link to the collections, but they wouldn't necessarily know ahead of time which ones their students would choose to work with. Would it be acceptable to not include links within the application? >> Olivia Dorsey: So I'll definitely open this up for my colleagues to answer as well. We definitely want to see specific collections in the application. But we anticipate as your project evolves over time they'll be more collections that you'll want to include as part of your project. >> Yeah thank you for that Olivia. This is Marya again. I - I do agree with what Olivia says that we - we understand yes especially if you were presenting - you're proposing something in which students will - will get to work with the digital collections themselves. And so I understand you don't want to require them to - to work with sub collections over the others - over others. But I think you know, say if you're an educator, instructor or faculty member that it would still be useful for you to look through the digital collections and - >> I think we might have lost Marya. >> Olivia Dorsey: Okay. Maybe she'll - she might respond in the chat. Yeah that's definitely a great question. So just as a really, really brief overview of the people website. It's located here at LOC.gov/programs/of the people/about this program. And here there are several links. I think we have another question. >> Oh okay, the person who asked about the specific collections understood Marya's point and what you mentioned Olivia, so thank you. >> Olivia Dorsey: No problem. No problem. So on this page you'll see of the people blog. So if you're looking for additional updates on CCDI, on the of the people program, we'll post those here on the blog. One of our recent blog posts we've had actually includes Q & A information from some of the webinars that we've had previously. So I suggest checking out that post to see if a question that you have may have been answered already. If I go back and go to represent. This is where you'll find the connecting communities digital initiative information. So over here on the left you'll see connecting communities digital initiative and then links to our libraries, archives, museums, application and our higher education application. And then you'll also find information on our inaugural recipients for our grants. So if I go to higher education application, this is where you'll find more details regarding deadlines, such as when questions can be submitted until. What you should include in your email, when you're asking us questions. As well as the deadline for the applications. And then if you scroll to the bottom here under commonly asked questions. Again under how do I apply you'll find the link to notice of funding opportunity as well as those templates such as the application check list, project narrative template, that will help you fill out your application. And then there are a few more questions at the bottom here that may help you in that process. >> Thanks so much Olivia. And it looks like that was the last of the questions. If you want to leave us with any parting words. >> Olivia Dorsey: Yeah, thank you so much for joining us for this webinar. We really appreciate your time, and we look forward to reading your applications. Thank you so much.