| Judith Krug Fund Banned Books Week Event Grants |
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Judith Krug Fund Banned Books Week Event Grants Each year FTRF distributes grants to non-profit organizations to support activities which raise awareness of intellectual freedom and censorship issues during the annual Banned Books Week celebration (September 22-28, 2019). Libraries, schools and universities are encouraged to apply. Grants are awarded at two levels, $1,000 and $2,500. To be eligible for a grant, organizations must not have been a recipient of an FTRF grant within the past five years. Grantees are encouraged to share their events on social media and local press. A follow-up report detailing expenditures, numbers of participants, links to press coverage, and a narrative of the event is due within six weeks of the Banned Books Week celebration.
The 2019 Banned Books Week celebration is September 22-28, 2019. Click here to apply
2018 Banned Books Week Grant Recipients
From the 2016 Grantees On the evening of Friday, April 15, 2016 Banned: A community conversation about censorship and free speech (Banned) and Friends of Hemming Park co-hosted The Lorax Movie and Green Market, a family-friendly event in downtown Jacksonville, Florida. Event activities tied together two important issues during the week preceding Earth Day: the need to protect trees and our environment and the freedom to read. The Lorax by Dr. Seuss is a favorite banned classic that highlights the environmental impact of deforestation; the Year of the Trees was the Earth Day 2016 theme. 
Troy University Libraries, a 2016 BBW grant recipient, celebrates the freedom to read.
Past Krug Fund grant recipients Banned Books Week 2017 Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation, Smith River, Calif Banned Books Week 2016 Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library, Tucson, AZ
Banned Books Week 2015 Read more in our press release.
Banned Books Week 2014 Seven organizations were recipients of 2014 Krug Fund Banned Books Week event grants! Read more about their grants in our press release.
Banned Books Week 2013 Seven organizations were recipients of 2013 Krug Fund Banned Books Week event grants! Read more about their grants in our press release.
Banned Books Week 2012 In 2012, FTRF provided eight $1,000 Krug Fund Banned Books Week event grants. For photos, check out FTRF's Facebook album. Two of the 2012 Krug Fund recipients subsequently received $10,000 John Cotton Dana awards for excellence in promotion of library services. Congratulations to Cal Poly's Kennedy Library and Lawrence Public Library! Banned Books Week 2011 Six grants were awarded in 2011: Bay County Public Library and the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression each were awarded $2,500 grants; Springfield-Greene County Library District, North Dakota Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee, Thomas F. Holgate Library at Bennett College, and Skokie Public Library all received $1,000 grants. Banned Books Week 2010Seven organizations were awarded Banned Books Week inaugural Krug Fund event grants in 2010. They were: Iowa City Public Library, Takoma Park Maryland Library, Canisius College, Santa Monica Public Library, St. Catharine College, Dayton Metro Library - East Branch, and ACLU of Pennsylvania. |
Freedom to Read Foundation
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The Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF) is a non-profit legal and educational organization affiliated with the American Library Association (http://www.ala.org/) . FTRF protects and defends the First Amendment to the Constitution and supports the right of libraries to collect - and individuals to access - information.
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