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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288,370 Items	10 Types	402 Titles
86 Partners	19 Decades	4 Languages
145 Counties	32 States	3 Countries
8,545,606 Usage	11 years, 2 months ago Collection Created	3 days, 10 hours ago Last Updated

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Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 268, Ed. 1 Monday, June 30, 1980

The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 2007

The Swisher County News (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 20, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 1, 2010

The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 100, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 13, 2008

The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 100, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 23, 2008

The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 30, 2009

The Swisher County News (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 22, 2014

The Swisher County News (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 7, 2013

The Swisher County News (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 49, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 5, 2012

The Swisher County News (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 10, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 23, 2010

The Swisher County News (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 41, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 19, 2011

The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 20, 2007

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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, 2020.

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