Tocker Foundation Grants

History

The Tocker Foundation was established in 1964 to implement the philanthropic interests of Phillip and Olive Tocker. Phillip Tocker was a practicing attorney but changed careers in his later years by purchasing the Waco outdoor advertising plant and later expanding to own outdoor advertising plants throughout the United States. His vocational career culminated to the position of President of the Outdoor Advertising Association of America. After retiring to Austin in 1973, Phillip and Olive Tocker actively pursued their avocations. Phillip and Olive Tocker endowed the foundation with their estates in 1994 and 1993 respectively.

In 1992 the foundation board decided to focus grant distribution to small rural libraries in Texas serving a population of 12,000 or less. The direction is to assist libraries in making services more accessible to individuals who by reason of distance, residence, handicap, age, literacy level or other disadvantage are unable to receive the benefits of public library services. Grants are distributed to assisting libraries to serve as community information referral centers and provide literacy and bilingual programs. The Foundation partners with community libraries to meet the particular needs of the community.

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362,310 Items	10 Types	446 Titles
95 Partners	19 Decades	4 Languages
150 Counties	32 States	3 Countries
14,179,004 Usage	14 years, 2 months ago Collection Created	3 weeks, 1 day ago Last Updated

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Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 71, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 12, 1973

Elgin Courier and Four County News (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 1959

Elgin Courier and Four County News (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 24, 1959

Elgin Courier and Four County News (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 17, 1959

Elgin Courier and Four County News (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 10, 1959

Elgin Courier and Four County News (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 3, 1959

Elgin Courier and Four County News (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 26, 1959

Elgin Courier and Four County News (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 19, 1959

Elgin Courier and Four County News (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 12, 1959

Elgin Courier and Four County News (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 5, 1959

Elgin Courier and Four County News (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 29, 1959

Elgin Courier and Four County News (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 22, 1959

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Tocker Foundation Grants in The Portal to Texas History. University of North Texas Libraries. https://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/TFG/ accessed June 6, 2023.

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