Please Vote for Pepsi Refresh Grant for NYLA's Empire State Book Festival

NYLA is competing for a $50,000 Pepsi Refresh Grant to fund this year’s Empire State Book Festival. Please visit www.refresheverything.com today and register to vote. You can register more than one email address and you can vote every day for the Empire State Book Festival until the end of January.

Not many library sponsored projects get funded so let’s show the nation that New York supports its libraries, literacy and literature by voting for the Empire State Book Festival HERE.

It’st very important that NYLA gets as many votes as possible. Please forward this on to as many of your colleagues, friends and family to vote. Thanks in advance for you cooperation and forbearance.

For more info about the Empire State Book Festival, please visit www.empirestatebookfestival.org

Help eba win grant

eba Dance Theater has a great opportunity to win a $250,000 grant from Pepsi!

eba need your help to vote for eba through the link created on the website at www.eba-arts.org

The grant would enable eba to create a fitness center on the 1st floor of its historic building on Lark Street in the heart of Albany. Dance will continue in the 2nd floor theater. When the local YMCA moved, a void in the fitness arena was created in the community. Adding a fitness center will better utilize eba’s studio space, meet a real community need and keep eba's arts programs available.

The arts have been hit very hard by this recession. The fitness center will allow eba to use program funds for arts programming and the fitness center can take care of the building. A win-win! The winners of the Pepsi Refresh program are determined by online votes.

The two projects with the most votes win. You can vote once a day - every day -
during the month of September. If you and your friends vote for eba each day, it can win this funding. If you’d like, eba can send a daily e-mail reminder so you can reply with single click to vote. Just sign up at www.eba-arts.org today.