Request for 2025 Capital Projects Grant Program

The Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program is the Library of Congress’s (LOC) premier educational outreach initiative, designed to provide instructional materials, tools, education, and professional development to teachers. Its core mission aligns directly with the LOC’s broader outreach goals, particularly as reflected in the 2019-23 and 2024-2028 Strategic Plans and the vision of connecting to all Americans. The program seeks to enhance educators’ ability to integrate digitized primary sources from the LOC into instruction, which in turn builds student literacy, critical thinking skills, content knowledge, and the ability to conduct original research. TPS Consortium members are recognized as "Connectors" who are crucial in achieving this strategic vision. The current Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is specifically for Continuing Awards (FY25-FY27) and targets experienced TPS providers who are current TPS Consortium members that have previously received direct grants from the Library. The primary impact goal of this funding is to expand the use of teaching materials, tools, and strategies developed under previous TPS awards. The targeted beneficiaries are specific recipient populations of learners and educators identified as being underserved by the current TPS program. These groups include those representing specific professions, ethnicities, geographic locations, abilities, interests, affiliations, and other attributes. The priorities and focuses of this NOFO center on dissemination and adaptation. The Library seeks proposals that allow experienced TPS providers to disseminate their existing materials, tools, programming, and research to meet the demonstrated educational needs of these specific recipient populations. Successful applicants must detail how they will support both current and new audiences by actively reviewing and revising existing TPS products, modifying these products to enhance their value to educators and learners, and developing new strategies and networks specifically to facilitate outreach to the targeted, underserved populations. The expected outcomes are measurable in terms of expanded outreach and effective solutions tailored to specific needs. Applicants must submit project proposals that address demonstrated educational needs with solutions that are suggested to be effective by standard practice, documented experience, or research. The theory of change underpinning this opportunity suggests that by leveraging the experience and products of existing Consortium members and requiring targeted adaptation and outreach, the Library can successfully extend the program’s valuable resources to previously underserved communities, thereby broadening the impact of primary source instruction and furthering the LOC’s goal of connecting with all Americans.