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February 27th, 2025
2025 Library Grant Cycle Celebrates Youth with $166,402 to 24 Libraries Throughout Our Region
Our Library Grant Cycle, made grants from the Bernard Carl and Shirley Rosen Fund. This cycle 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 Library Storytime Train 2025-26
Aurora Free Library for Storytime Train: Take it on the Road and Beyond 2025
Hazard Library for Literacy Collaborations in Southern Cayuga
Port Byron Library for Traveling Library
Seymour Public Library District for Discover Summer 2025: Color Our World
Weedsport Free Library for Books Make Our Lives Brighter!
CORTLAND COUNTY LIBRARIES
Cortland Free Library for Ready, Set, Read and Homeschool Get Ready To Read
Cortland Free Library for Color Our World Summer Reading Program
Phillips Free Library for Book Club Program 2025-2026
SENECA COUNTY LIBRARIES
Edith B. Ford Memorial Library for Summer Reading Program
Interlaken Public Library for Color Our World
Lodi Whittier Library for 2025 Summer Reading Program & Story Times
Seneca Falls Library for Colors of Storytellers
Seneca Falls Library for the Life Long Reader
Waterloo Library & Historical Society for Making Fairy Tales Come to Life
TIOGA COUNTY LIBRARIES
Berkshire Free Library for Year Round Youth Learning 2025
Candor Free Library for 2025 Summer Reading Program
Coburn Free Library for Summer Reading Program
George P. & Susan Platt Cady Library
Tappan-Spaulding Memorial Library for Summer Reading Program
Tappan-Spaulding Memorial Library for StoryTime and Beyond
Waverly Free Library for Color Our Library with Happiness – 2025 Summer Reading
TOMPKINS COUNTY LIBRARIES
Groton Public Library for Building Literacy (BuLit) with T(w)eens @ GPL
Lansing Community Library for Color Our World Summer Reading and Fall programming
Newfield Public Library for NPL 2025 Summer Reading Program
Newfield Public Library for NPL 2025/6 Afterschool Special
Southworth Library Association for Family Storytime
Southworth Library Association for Summer Kids’ Clubs
Tompkins County Public Library Foundation for Summer Adventure 2024
Ulysses Philomathic Library for Summer Reading Program 2025