During normal times, this year’s Kids, Books and the Arts grants and thSummer Learning grants would have gone out in April. Due to the pandemic shutdown, these grants were delayed and the applications closed at the end of May. We had funding for about half of the applicants, and as the KBA application stated, preference was given to those with little to no summer program funding. Summer Learning grants were issued to those that we viewed as viable during this current time of social distancing and limited in-person programs.
This is the last year for the KBA grants and only our improved grant system–the Summer Learning grant will be available next year. If you applied and did not receive a Summer Learning grant this year, we hope you try again next when hopefully we will be operating under more normal circumstances.
Following are the KBA and Summer Learning grant recipients for 2020.
Funding for northern KBA grants supplied by the Saul O Sidore Memorial Foundation. Other KBA grants are funded by the Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation, Cogswell Benevolent Trust, and is supported in part by a grant from the NH State Council on the Arts & the National Endowment for the Arts. Summer Learning grants were funded this year by the Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation and the Cogswell Benevolent Trust.
Northern KBA:
Berlin Public Library
Colebrook Public Library
Gorham Public Library
Jefferson Public Library
Moosilauke Public Library-N. Woodstock
Stratford Public Library
KBA:
Silsby Free Library-Charlestown
Chesterfield Public Library
Epsom Public Library
Goodwin Library-Farmington
G H Bixby Memorial Library-Francestown
Chamberlin Free Public Library-Greenville
Kensington Public Library
Aaron Cutler Memorial Library-Litchfield
Milton Free Public Library-Milton Mills
Orford Social/Orford Free Library-Orford
Pembroke Public Library
Pease Public Library-Plymouth
Dudley-Tucker Public Library-Raymond
Salisbury Public Library
Sandown Public Library
Davis Public Library-Stoddard
Shedd Free Library-Washington
Summer Learning Grants:
Allenstown Public Library for STEM kit purchases
Shedd-Porter Library in Alstead for Crafternoon supply purchases
Belmont Public Library for Code with a Librarian
Baker Free Library in Bow for Tinker Tuesday STEM supply purchases
Effingham Public Library for STEM take home kit purchases
Gay-Kimball Library in Troy to revamp early literacy backpacks
Wilton Public & Gregg Free in Wilton for Kinda Cooked Creations