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March 15th, 2019
2019 Library Grant Cycle Celebrates Youth Reading with $182,365 Granted to 21 Finger Lakes Libraries
Our Library Grant Cycle, making grants 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.
CAYUGA COUNTY LIBRARIES
Seymour Public Library District for Discover a Universe of Stories
Aurora Free Library for Blast Off with Sally Ride
Aurora Free Library for Storytime Train: Full STEAM Ahead 2019-2020
Hazard Library for We Love to Read in Southern Cayuga County
CORTLAND COUNTY LIBRARIES
Cortland Free Library for Ready, Set, Read!
Phillips Free Library for Book Clubs in Cortland County
Phillips Free Library for Authors and Storytellers at the Story Arts Festival in Homer, NY
SENECA COUNTY LIBRARIES
Edith B. Ford Memorial Library for BLAST (Bringing Libraries And Schools Together)
Edith B. Ford Memorial Library for Summer Theatre and Mythology Camps
Interlaken Public Library for A Universe of Stories summer reading program
Interlaken Public Library for Comic Book Club
Lodi Whittier Library for Tyke Tales Storytime
Seneca Falls Library for A Universe of Stories summer reading program
Seneca Falls Library for Return of the Readers
TIOGA COUNTY LIBRARIES
Apalachin Library for Summer Reading 2019
Berkshire Free Library for Storytime
Candor Free Library for Write & Illustrate Your Own Adventure
Candor Free Library for A Universe of Stories summer reading program
Tappan-Spaulding Memorial Library for New Books! New Readers!
George P. & Susan Platt Cady Library for Summer Reading 2019
Waverly Free Library for Presenters for summer reading program workshops
Waverly Free Library for Creation of Kids’ Art Club
TOMPKINS COUNTY LIBRARIES
Groton Public Library for LEAP 2019-2020
Groton Public Library for Teen Thing 2019-2020
Groton Public Library for Up Front & In Person
Lansing Community Library for A Universe of Stars
Lansing Community Library for After School Adventure Fun
Newfield Public Library for Summer Reading Program
Newfield Public Library for Teens at the Library
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
Tompkins County Public Library Foundation for 2019 Summer Reading Program
Ulysses Philomathic Library for Dungeons and Dragons Book Club