If you are a regular reader of Grant Gazing (and I hope you are) you will have noticed my mentioning the love our whole Improve Group staff has for literature. Evaluation work seems to attract “bookworms” since it requires copious literature and document reviews as well as the need to read to stay current on the issues of the day.

To break up all that fact-finding our staff also enjoys a good fiction or a biography or a little adventurous reading which is why this week’s funder is right up our alley. I was very pleased to find this grant that encourages readers and spreads excitement about the written word.

This weeks’ pick: The James Patterson Pageturner Awards are grants of varying amounts given out to “to people, companies, schools and other institutions that find original and effective ways to spread the excitement of books and reading.”

Legal residents of the United States or Canada are eligible. You may nominate yourself or another individual, school or organization. Nomination forms must be submitted by December 9, 2007. You will be notified if you should fill out an application form. The application must be returned by Sunday, December 16th 2007. Grant awards range from $2,500 up to $50,000 and will be announced in March of 2008.

Click here for more information on novelist James Patterson.