GRANT RECIPIENTS: Avon Free Public Library
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Year |
Grant Type |
Program Name |
Director, Organization |
Age Group |
Subject Area(s) |
Description |
| 2009 | Program | Promoting Peace | Tina Panik and Patrice Celli, AFPL | Grade 7 - Adult | Humanitarianism | This program will host authors Alepho Deng, Benson Deng and Benjamin Ajak, three “Lost Boys” whose autobiography, They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky, recounts their survival of the ongoing genocide in Darfur. The high school, middle school and Senior Center are collaborating. Middle schoolers will read a less graphic companion book. The event is scheduled for October 2009. |
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2006 |
Avon United Fund Mini Grant |
Here They Come! The Creative Author Process |
Karen McNulty, AFPL |
Grade K - 3 |
Reading, Writing, Illustration |
Bring children’s book author David Costello to explain the book writing and illustration process to young readers. |
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2006 |
Mini |
Susan B. Anthony: The Invincible! |
Tina Panik, AFPL |
Grade 7 - Adult |
Women’s History |
Actress Sally Matson portrays Susan B. Anthony in a one woman play during Women’s History Month in March 2007. |
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2005 |
Avon Junior Women’s Club Mini Grant |
Children’s Author Visitation |
Carol Randolph & Karen McNulty, AFPL |
Grade K - 4 |
Reading |
Bring a children’s author to visit the library during National Children’s Book Week.
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