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April 9th, 2021
2021 Library Grant Cycle Celebrates Youth with more than $208,000 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.
CAYUGA COUNTY LIBRARIES
Aurora Free Library for Storytime Train: Chugging Down the Track
2021-22
Aurora Free Library for Take it on the Road Aurora
Hazard Library for Raising a Community of Readers in Southern Cayuga
Port Byron Library for Spanish Language Collection and Summer Reading Support
Seymour Public Library District for Discover Tails and Tales with Seymour Library
CORTLAND COUNTY LIBRARIES
Cortland Free Library for Ready, Set, Read and Homeschool Get Ready To Read
Cortland Free Library for Tails and Tales: Summer Reading Program
Phillips Free Library for Cortland County Libraries’ Book Clubs
Phillips Free Library for Outdoor Story Times in Homer
SENECA COUNTY LIBRARIES
Interlaken Public Library for 2021 Summer Reading
Lodi Whittier Library for Tyke Tales Storytime and Tails & Tales Summer Reading Program
Seneca Falls Library for Wild about Learning
Seneca Falls Library for Tails and Tales: Summer Reading 2021
Waterloo Library & Historical Society for Expanding our resources for now and the future
Waterloo Library & Historical Society for Listen, Read and Create; multisensory Storytime experiences
TIOGA COUNTY LIBRARIES
Berkshire Free Library for Story Time
Candor Free Library for Tales and Tails All Year
George P. & Susan Platt Cady Library (Nichols) for Summer Reading 2021: Tails and Tales
Tappan-Spaulding Memorial Library for Creating Future Readers Through Storytime
Waverly Free Library for Presenters for Materials to enhance youth programming
TOMPKINS COUNTY LIBRARIES
Groton Public Library for LEAP Plus
Groton Public Library for LEAP into Reading
Groton Public Library for Read2Grow
Lansing Community Library for Tails and Tales: Summer at the Lansing Community Library
Newfield Public Library for NPL Summer Reading Program
Southworth Library Association for Family Storytimes
Southworth Library Association for Summer Kid’s Club
Tompkins County Public Library Foundation for Summer Learning Program 2021
Ulysses Philomathic Library for Dungeons & Dragons Book Club: Year 3
Ulysses Philomathic Library for Summer Reading Program: Tails & Tales with the Cayuga Nature Center