The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (MA) received a $173,414 grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) for the Museums of America, Collections Stewardship competition. Because of the quality of the narrative, the IMLS selected the actual application as we prepared it as an example for others to follow when seeking a grant in the same category and posted it on the Sample Applications page of their website from 2017 through 2018.