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April 6th, 2017
2017 Library Grant Cycle Celebrates Youth Reading with $165,544 Granted to 28 Finger Lakes Libraries
2017 Library Grant Cycle from the Bernard Carl and Shirley Rosen Fund and from additional Community Foundation Funds seeks to promote genuine intellectual curiosity and a lifelong love of reading and learning by encouraging youth to develop habits of regular library use. Eligible applicants are the 33 public libraries in Cayuga, Cortland, Seneca, Tioga and Tompkins counties, the 5 counties of the Finger Lakes Library System. LEARN MORE
CAYUGA COUNTY LIBRARIES
Seymour Public Library District for Summer Reading Program 2017: Build a Better World
Aurora Free Library for Storytime Train: All Aboard 2017-18
Aurora Free Library for Meet the Authors: Rochester Teen Book Fest 2017
Hazard Library Association (Poplar Ridge) for Great Book Summer: Partnerships Form Pathways to Reading Success
Port Byron Library for Check Out Science – Science Kits
Port Byron Library for Exploring Science at the Library
Springport Free Library for Playaway with Purpose
Weedsport Free for Library Building Readers Book Clubs
CORTLAND COUNTY LIBRARIES
Cortland Free Library for Ready, Set, Read!
Phillips Free Library & Peck Memorial Library for Build a Better World Youth Book Clubs
Phillips Free Library & Lamont Memorial Free Library for Writer in Residence at Homer and McGraw
SENECA COUNTY LIBRARIES
Interlaken Public Library & Lodi Whittier Library for Build a Better World Summer Reading Program
Interlaken Public Library for Building a Better World-Story Time Program
Edith B. Ford Memorial Library for Build a Better World Summer Reading Program
Edith B. Ford Memorial Library for LIFT: LIbraries For Teens
Seneca Falls Library for Build a Better Summer
Seneca Falls Library for Year Round Fun at the Library
Waterloo Library & Historical Society for Establishing readers by harnessing technology with mini maker reading kits
TIOGA COUNTY LIBRARIES
Berkshire Free Library for Storytime
Candor Free Library for Summer Reading and Beyond
Tappan-Spaulding Memorial Library for Build a Better World at Tappan-Spaulding Memorial Library
George P. & Susan Platt Cady Library for Build a Better World at the Cady Library Summer Reading 2017
Coburn Free for Library Teen Reader’s Theater
Waverly Free Library for LiFT (Libraries for Tweens)
TOMPKINS COUNTY LIBRARIES
Southworth Library Association for Family Storytimes at the Library
Southworth Library Association for Southworth Library Summer Kid’s Club
Southworth Library Association for STEAM it UP Book Club
Groton Public Library for LEAP
Groton Public Library for GPL Teen Thing
Groton Public Library in a multi-library multi-county collaboration for The Amazing FLLS Author Tour
Tompkins County Public Library Foundation for 2017 Summer Reading Program
Lansing Community Library for Sensory Story Time at the Lansing Library
Newfield Public Library for Summer Reading Program
Ulysses Philomathic Library for Social Justice Community Read