Our Partners

Partners Library Action Network (PLAN) is dedicated to strengthening Texas public libraries. PLAN sees a future in which all citizens know, use, and benefit from excellent library services.

For over thirty years, TAME has worked to encourage the participation of women and minorities in STEM careers through innovative, hands-on science programming for K-12 students across Texas. Our strong network of K-12 educators, institutes of higher education, and industry partners helps us share ideas and concerns and to deliver targeted, relevant, and cutting-edge programming. Since 2014, the Tocker Foundation has been a proud supporter of TAME through grants that send the signature Trailblazer, science-museum-on-wheels, to rural libraries for a day of STEM fun and education.

The Texas Book Festival was established in 1995 by First Lady Laura Bush, a former librarian and an ardent advocate of literacy. Since the first Festival in 1996, the Tocker Foundation has been a proud supporter of the Texas Book Festival organization. This annual event on the grounds of the state capitol promotes of the joys of reading, honors Texas authors and benefits the state’s public libraries by awarding grants from the proceeds of the festival.

The print and online magazine is a monthly communication to better inform, educate and entertain members of the state’s 65 electric co-ops. It is delivered to 1.54 million, largely rural, Texas homes each month reaching 3.5 million readers.

A professional membership organization to promote, support and improve library services in Texas. Various membership committees and units – divisions, round tables, interest groups, and districts – carry out the work of the Association. SCLRT addresses the needs of directors, staff, and board members of libraries serving small communities across the state. These libraries, which constitute more than half of the public libraries in Texas, are different in many ways from their counterparts in large urban population centers. Although this group defines a small community library as one which serves a population of less than 25,000, membership in SCLRT is open to anyone who appreciates and supports small community libraries. The Tocker Foundation is proud to sponsor the SCLRT Librarian of the Year Award presented at the SCLRT Social during TLA’s Annual Conference.

The State Library’s mission is to ensure that citizens have access to the information they need to lead informed, productive, and fulfilled lives. Through their Small Library Management Training program, they offer ongoing educational programs to provide management and foundational library skills to those professionals without Master's degrees in Library Science who work in a small community (25,000 or less population) library in Texas. The Tocker Foundation is proud to offer travel stipends to enable library staff in the communities we serve to attend these valuable trainings.

The Portal to Texas History is a gateway to rare, historical, and primary source materials from or about Texas. Created and maintained by the University of North Texas Libraries, the Portal leverages the power of hundreds of content partners across the state to provide a vibrant, growing collection of resources available to all through their user-friendly website. The Tocker Foundation is a proud supporter of the Portal by providing grants to libraries to digitize old newspapers up to 1965.