2015 Grants from The Community Foundation of Tompkins County’s Library Grant Cycle
Congratulations to the 2015 Community Foundation of Tompkins County Library Grant recipients!
The award ceremony was part of the 2015 Annual Summer Reading Meeting. For more information on this grant cycle, please visit: www.cftompkins.org/granting/grant-opportunities/
The following is from the Community Foundation of Tompkins County’s Announcement:
The 2015 Community Foundation Library Grants cycle reviewed 26 applications this year representing 21 of the 33 libraries in the Finger Lakes Library System
Over $163,000 was requested and with a total of $138,394 granted
$122,700 was from the Bernard Carl and Shirley Rosen Library Fund
$10,999 was from the Myrtle Dee Nash Memorial Fund
$4,300 was from the Tom and Maria Eisner Fund
$395.08 from the Children and Youth Fund, a Field of Interest fund
Seymour Public Library District for Saturday Storytimes $928
Seymour Public Library District for Summer Reading: Every Hero Has a Story $13,516
Aurora Free Library for Storytime Train and Young Engineers – All Aboard for Reading, Talking, Singing, Playing and Writing: Year 3: Math and Science $8,750
Aurora Free Library for Teen Choice: Continuing to Lead the Way: Year 3 $1,000
Stewart B Lang Memorial Library for Reading on the Wild Side with Jim Arnosky $988
Hazard Library Association for It Takes a Community to Raise Readers for Avoiding the Summer Slump $10,800
Kellogg Free Library for Children’s Summer Reading 2015 $675
Cortland Free Library for Ready, Set, Read! $2,050
Cortland Free Library for Read It! See It! $2,129.64
Phillips Free Library for Get Reading This Summer! $7,800
Phillips Free Library (Kellogg Free Library, McGraw, Lamont Memorial Lib.) for Reading and Writing with Sherlock and Shane $5,950
Lodi Whittier Library and Interlaken Public Library for Every Hero Has a Story, Youth Summer Reading Program; Unmask! Teen Summer Reading Program $3,027.88
Edith B Ford Memorial Library for Superhero Training Corps! $1,660
Edith B Ford Memorial Library for LiFT (Libraries for Teens) $10,829
Seneca Falls Library for Sensational Summer at the Seneca Falls Library $4,750
Seneca Falls Library for Live, Learn, Love at the Library! $3,450
Berkshire Free Library for Pre-School Story Time $2,520
Groton Public Library for GPL Teen Thing $11,450.00 $395.08
Groton Public Library for(Southworth/Cortland/Moravia) Up Front – In Person $9,323.48
Tompkins County Public Library for Adapt and Include: Sensory Storytimes and Integration at the Tompkins County Public Library $9,643 + $2,600
Lansing Community Library for Every Hero Has a Story @ the Lansing Library $9,000 + $1,700
Newfield Public Library for Find Your Heroes at the Library $3,970
Ulysses Philomathic Library for Mobile Makerspace $5,049