P-2530

New Books for Children

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Project Description

Country: USA

Location: Fort Collins, Colorado

Total Budget: $1,500

Area of Focus: Basic education and literacy

Activity Type: Education: Literacy

Summary: This literacy grant of $1,500 would be dedicated to purchasing new books for children and families that participate in Fort Collins Read Aloud programs throughout the year.


Fort Collins Read Aloud, a nonprofit organization founded in 1990 by two Colorado State University professors to address the literacy needs of children then participating in Head Start, continues with the original mission to "encourage, educate, and empower the communities of Larimer County with the tools necessary to ensure lifetime literacy for children".

FCRA provides baby board books and preschool books written in English and in Spanish to give to participating parents in programs designed to educate and engage parents around the topics of language development in their young children, ages zero to three years, with a particular focus on how reading aloud can build that language.

Our programs include:

1. Harmony Mobile Home Park is coordinated by FCRA with the support of Linton Elementary community liaison. FCRA sponsors summer literacy evenings at the Harmony Park, as well. Books, new and donated, at all levels, in English and in Spanish, are distributed to students and their families.

2. Best Start for Babies and Toddlers is an outreach of the United Way of Weld County. FCRA targets the language development of young children based on current research which highlights the enormous benefits for building language in babies, zero to age three, and recognizes that parents are their child's first and best teachers.

3. FCRA distributes books, new and donated, at all levels, in English and Spanish, to families at the quarterly Children in Need events, sponsored by the Homeward Alliance, formerly known as Homeless Gear.

4. FCRA also provides books requested by English Language Development teachers at Johnson Elementary, Webber Middle and Bacon Elementary schools. These titles are chosen for students with whom the teachers work in order to provide more access to reading aloud at home.

5. FCRA volunteers, who read aloud to students in Kindergarten- 3rd grade Poudre School District classrooms, request books for "their" students; those books are purchased at the end of the school year and are sent directly to the volunteer to give to his/her students.

The grant funds (generously set at $1500) will go entirely to buying new books. Books will be distributed throughout the school year to the families, parents, students, teachers and volunteers mentioned above. This budget will serve approximately 300 children with new books.

Rotary Club members are FCRA volunteers in elementary schools now, reading aloud to students. FCRA welcomes more club members to volunteer. Club members are also very welcome at the Children in Need events to help pass out books. The next Children in Need event is December 1 at the Aztlan Center.

Project Contact Person

District: 5440

Rotary Club of: Fort Collins

Primary Contact: Lucinda Kerschensteiner

Email: lucinda@4socialchange.org

Project Status

Completed
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Project listed for the 2018-19 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing

Existing Contributions Towards This Project

Date

Cash

DDF

Total

Fort Collins (5440)

23-Oct-18

$500

$1,000

$1,500

Total

$500

$1,000

$1,500

Project Supporting Documents


[23-Oct-18]
Budget


[21-Oct-19]
Final report


[2-May-19]
Quarterly Report May 2019


[21-Oct-19]
receipt 1


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receipt 2


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receipt 3


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receipt 9

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History Log Entries

23-Oct-18

System Entry

System Entry: Creation of project page.

20-Nov-18

by Lucinda Kerschensteiner

System Entry: Project sent for club signatures.

20-Nov-18

by Lucinda Kerschensteiner

System Entry: Project signed by Lucinda Kerschensteiner.

26-Nov-18

System Entry

System Entry: Project signed by Stephen Laine.

27-Nov-18

by Randall Looper

System Entry: Project approved by the District Approval Committee.

4-Dec-18

by Bill Kehl

System Entry: Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer.

22-Apr-19

by Randall Looper

Please provide a quarterly update on this project.

3-May-19

by Lucinda Kerschensteiner

Fort Collins Read Aloud, using the Rotary grant, has purchased 78 books (baby board books, preschool picture books, early reader chapter books, 3rd - 5th grade level chapter books) in English and Spanish for students and parents of babies and toddlers in the Johnson Elementary student population and for the Boys and Girls Club participants at the Harmony Mobile Home park.

We plan to distribute books, new (also purchased with grant money) and donated books at an upcoming community event in the summer, Realities for Children Homebase.

16-Oct-19

by Randall Looper

Lucinda,

Is this project now complete? If it is please complete the final report and upload it and the receits.

21-Oct-19

by Lucinda Kerschensteiner

System Entry: Project has been implemented and final report uploaded.

21-Oct-19

by Randall Looper

System Entry: Final report approved by the District Approval Committee.

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