1. Carole Weitzel President

2. Email: carole@authorsandmore.comcarole@authorsandmore.com Phone: 512 914-2596 www.authorsandmore.com

3. What is Authors and More ? ● A booking agency for authors, storytellers and other presenters. ● An agency owned by a librarian who knows what a presenter needs and what a school needs in a presenter. ● An agency that will work with you to help you find the right author for your event.

4. What is Authors and More? ● Listed on many of the district vendor lists ● Supplies contracts and invoices ● Helps with booking travel and hotels ● Obtains books for a visit ● Works with you on the schedule ● Liaison with the author

5. Visit Tips: ● Start your planning ● What's your budget a. Honorarium or fee b. Travel expenses 1. Flight, car rental, and/or mileage 2. Hotel 3. Meals or per Diem

6. What's most important to you? ● Identify the author or storyteller that best fits your event. ● Date: It would be best to have 3 available dates. ● If you must have a specific date – are you flexible with the presenter? ● Price range

7. How to make a great event: ● Prepare the audience ● Publicize the event ● Buy the books ● Read to the students ● Create excitement for the author visit ● Check for equipment needs

8. What the author needs: ● Have the schedule ready at least 2 weeks in advance. ● Allow time for autographing of books, materials. ● Provide refreshments during the day. a. bottled water or other beverages b. lunch ● Stay on schedule. ● Have payment ready for Authors and More, or the author, the day of the event.Authors and More

9. $$$ Saving Ideas: ● Is there another school in your district which also wants to schedule the author the same week? Sharing costs will help not only you; but Authors and More when working with you.Authors and More ● Sometimes an author will discount their fee when they are booked for more than one school in the same week in the same area. ● Authors and More can help with booking authors for more than one day at a time thus saving costs for everyone. Authors and More

10. Funding Sources: ● TCA - Texas Commission on the Arts – Anina Moore http://www.arts.state.tx.us/ ● PTAs - Be proactive with the PTA, ask to be on the programs committee. ● Book Fairs - Tell parents the book fair is raising money to bring authors to the school. Let them know that the profits benefit the students and how you plan to use it.

11. Funding Sources (cont.) ● Corporate grants Most large companies have a grant program ● Education grants Some of these are listed later in the slides

12. Corporate Grants ● A Plus educational foundation rewards www.aplusfcu.org ● Email: educationfoundation@aplusfcu.org Applications available Feb. with a May deadlineeducationfoundation@aplusfcu.org ● Bank of America: Corporate Philanthropy http://www.bankofamerica.com/foundation/

13. Corporate Grants (cont.) ● Capital One: Contributions and partnership http://capitalone.com/about/corporate-citizenship/partnership ● Kohls: Associates in Action http://www.kohlscorporation.com/CommunityRelations/Community04D.htm http://www.kohlscorporation.com/CommunityRelations/Community04D.htm When a minimum of 5 Kohl associates from one location volunteer for 3 consecutive hours for a youth-serving nonprofit organization, associates help the nonprofit earn a $500 grant. ● Starbucks Foundation http://starbucks.com

14. Corporate Grants (cont.) ● Target: Arts and culture in schools www.target.com/grants ● Target: Take charge of education Redcard holders give 5% to the school of their choice on their purchases. Promote this with your parents and staff. Checks are given to the school in September. School's status can be checked online at anytime for the balance.

15. Corporate Grants (cont.) ● Wachovia and Wells Fargo https://www.wellsfargo.com/about/charitable/tx_guidelines ● Walmart and Sam's Club Giving Program http://walmartstores.com/CommunityGiving/8916.aspx

16. Education Grants ● Adopt-A-Classroom http://www.adoptaclassroom.org/index.aspx ● American Library Association http://www.ala.org/ala/awardsgrants/awardgov/awardapps/index.cfm ● Donors Choose http://www.donorschoose.org ● Institute of Museum and Library Services http://www.imls.gov/applicants/name.shtm

17. Education Grants (cont.) ● International Reading Association http://www.reading.org/Resources/AwardsandGrants.aspx ● Lee and Low Books http://www.leeandlow.com/p/administrators_grants.mhtml ● National Endowment for the Humanities http://www.neh.gov/grants/index.html ● National Storytelling Network http://storynet.org/programs/grants/index.html

18. Education Grants (cont.) ● School grants http://schoolgrants.org ● Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators http://www.scbwi.org/Pages.aspx/About-School-Visits Texas chapter http://www.scbwi.org/Regional-Chapters.aspx?R=47 ● U. S. Department of Education http://www2.ed.gov/fund/grants-apply.html

19. Education Grants (cont.) ● The Wallace Foundation http://www.wallacefoundation.org/GrantsPrograms/Pages/default.aspx

20. www.authorsandmore.com