Nashville Public Library Foundation

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2012 to Jun 30, 2013

Signed

Feb 6, 2014

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$5,841,158

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Bringing books to life is an award-winning pre-literacy program that helps teachers and parents foster a love of reading in children through teacher training, family literacy programs and story-related classroom activities. Last year, bbtl trained more than 700 teachers and armed more than 800 parents with the literacy tools needed to inspire reading both at home and in the classroom. After completing the program, 99 percent of surveyed parents were more inclined to use the library as a resource and 95 percent were inspired to engage in more literacy-related activities with their children. Bbtl rewards children, teachers and families with a visit from the puppet truck - a mobile puppet show. The puppet truck extends the reach of the library by taking literature-based puppet shows on the road to reach more than 27,000 children and school groups. The library's inventive storytelling brings books to life and inspires literacy. Liz carter's preschool class at victory learning center in south nashville fell in love with bbtl's anansi the spider presentation and literacy kit. "we read every book in the kit, hung the spider web, learned all about spiders and danced to the cds for two weeks," said liz. "the whole subject matter kept blossoming into new ideas. We made web paintings, multi-colored anansi spiders, and even created a science lesson about spinnerets and sticky webs!"

Activity 3

Additional programatic support: in fy13, nplf support provided funds for: 26,000 new books and ebooks offered throughout the city; a mobile job search lab that traveled the city and offered 4,000 patrons resume building, basic computer skills and job application services; salon@615 brought author talks and book signings with bestselling authors to 5,500 audience members; courtyard concerts entertained 4,000 attendees with free music by diverse local performers; and summer and afterschool learning where 7,000 students were challenged with innovative out-of-school programming. Art exhibits, special collection staffing, civil rights programming programs for all ages throughout the system round out support from nplf to the library in fy13.

Filer

EIN

62-1681766