Specifications include, but are not limited to: Phase 1: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Training (November 2020 – January 2021); • Each participating state will offer EDI training for librarians and board members.; • Library Strategies staff will attend these trainings when possible to connect them to the next phase of the project.; • Desired outcomes: o Attendees at these trainings recognize their own implicit bias.; o Attendees can explain why we are talking about this issue.; o Attendees express a desire to better serve underserved members in their community.; Phase 2: Importance of Strategic Planning Training (March 2021 – May 2021); • Library Strategies develops a core virtual session that covers the importance of strategic planning.; • Library Strategies creates a custom live Q&A session for each participating state that addresses the needs, goals, and landscape of that state.; • Library Strategies and State Library staff identify what needs to be covered in intensive training institutes and what support facilitators might need to assist with strategic planning.; • Desired outcomes: o Attendees can explain why strategic planning is important.; o Attendees recognize how the strategic planning process can be a tool for providing better services for underserved community members.; o Attendees express a desire to go through a strategic planning process.; o At least a few of the attendees express a desire to take the next step to be facilitators for small, rural libraries.; Phase 3: Intensive F2F Strategic Planning Institute for Facilitators (March 2022); • Library Strategies delivers 1 intensive training institutes that train attendees on how to facilitate strategic plans for the small, rural libraries in their state.; • State libraries identify 2-4 libraries who would like a strategic plan. State library staff assign these libraries to facilitators attending the event.; • State library staff and/or facilitators create a community snapshot of the libraries that need strategic plans.