With over $25,000 in proceeds from the 2024 tour, the Gig Harbor Garden Tour recently awarded literacy grants to 4 community groups and 4 Elementary Schools.  

We are helping the Harbor History Museum publish a book on the restoration of the Shenandoah,  helping  Gig Harbor Altrusa provide books to 0 to 5 year olds as part of the Dolly Parton Imagination Library, buying books for  Gig Harbor and Key Peninsula Libraries to give to the youth participants in their Summer Reading Program, and  helping Gig Harbor Pediatrics NW  give books to 0 to 5 year olds at their wellness visits.  

We have given grants to Key Peninsula PreSchool to develop an outdoor reading nook, Swift Water Elementary School to develop an outdoor learning program, Voyager Elementary School to purchase non fiction books for Kindergarten nature studies,  Purdy Elementary School to purchase books for a school wide home reading program, and to Vaughn Elementary School for Kindergarten special reading program materials, and Literacy materials for k-5th graders reading below grade level. 

We continue to seek out opportunities to support literacy work in our community and will consider additional grant applications. See our web page: gigharborgarentour.org for information.