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March 10th, 2020

2020 Library Grant Cycle Celebrates Youth with more than $162,000 to 21 Libraries Throughout Our Region

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.

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CAYUGA COUNTY LIBRARIES

Aurora Free Library for Meet the Authors Teen Book Fest 2020

Aurora Free Library for Storytime Train: Full STEAM Ahead 2020-2021

Hazard Library for We Love to Read in Southern Cayuga County 2020

Seymour Public Library District for Imagine

Weedsport Free Library for Imagine Your Story in 2020

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CORTLAND COUNTY LIBRARIES

Cortland Free Library for Ready, Set, Read! and Homeschool Get Ready to Read

Phillips Free Library for Book Clubs in Cortland County

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SENECA COUNTY LIBRARIES

Edith B. Ford Memorial Library for Storytime Advventures

Edith B. Ford Memorial Library for YES Educator

Interlaken Public Library for Summer Reading at the Library

Interlaken Public Library for Lego Literacy

Lodi Whittier Library for Tyke Tales Storytime 2020

Seneca Falls Library for Imagine Your Story – Summer Reading 2020

Seneca Falls Library for Innovator’s Library

Waterloo Library & Historical Society for Steam to Go

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TIOGA COUNTY LIBRARIES

Berkshire Free Library for Book Clubs

Candor Free Library for Imagine Your Story: Summer Reading 2020

Tappan-Spaulding Memorial Library for New Books! New Readers!

Waverly Free Library for Presenters for summer reading program workshops

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TOMPKINS COUNTY LIBRARIES

Groton Public Library for LEAP 2020-2021

Groton Public Library for Read2Grow 2020-2021

Lansing Community Library for David Kirk visit for “Oh, So Brave Dinosaur”

Lansing Community Library for After School Family Literacy at the Lansing Library

Newfield Public Library for Summer Reading Program

Newfield Public Library for After School Special

Southworth Library Association for Family Storytimes at the Library 2020

Southworth Library Association for 2020 Summer Kid’s Club

Tompkins County Public Library Foundation for 2020 Summer Reading Program

Ulysses Philomathic Library for Dungeons & Dragons Book Club: Part 2