Project Description Country: USA Location: Bedford, TX Total Budget: $1,800 Areas of Focus: Basic education and literacy, Community economic development Activity Type: Education: Literacy Summary: HEB Reads! is a collaboration between Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD and the cities of Hurst, Euless and Bedford, Texas. Its mission is to strengthen the community by providing educational opportunities for the youth of the greater HEB community. his project will help to fund the 2022 HEB Reads! Summer Reading Kickoff, which will be held at Pennington Field, Bedford, Texas, on May 14, 2022. The Kickoff is a completely free community festival with an attendance of over 4,000. Schools, libraries, community organizations, and local businesses come together to celebrate and promote reading. This will encourage reading to combat the "summer slide". Teachers will not have to spend as much time in the fall re-teaching skills lost over the summer. Many families in the HEB communities are not aware of the importance of summer reading. HEB-ISD is a diverse population both in its racial and ethnic makeup and socioeconomic levels. Over 70 languages are spoken in HEB-ISD with 54.9% in the free lunch program. Reading is encouraged through prizes and incentives, including another free book when a certain number of minutes is achieved. Project funds will be used for book giveaways and tote bags. The tote-bags will be used for the free book and to collect information and items being offered by groups having festival booths. The bag will be branded with the Rotary logo. Rotary members will fill a variety of rolls-welcoming people at the gate to the Kickoff and distribute tote bags to each attendee. Project Contact Person District: 5790 Rotary Club of: Hurst-Euless-Bedford Primary Contact: Diane Moore Email: dianesellsmoore.realestate@yahoo.com Project Status Completed This project is "Completed". This means the project has been implemented and the report was accepted by the district leadership. The project will stay listed on this website as a testimony of the achievements of the project partners. Project listed for the 2021-22 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Hurst-Euless-Bedford (5790) 31-Oct-21 $900 $900 $1,800 Total $900 $900 $1,800

Project Supporting Documents Alphabetical with icons By date with icons Alphabetical list format By date list format [12-Apr-22] Banking Docs [3-May-22] Final Report [11-Mar-22] HEB ISD Acknowledgement [31-Oct-21] HEB ROTARY GOALS [31-Oct-21] HEBRotary 990 [31-Oct-21] HEBRotary MOU

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History Log Entries 31-Oct-21 by Diane Moore System Entry: Creation of project page. 4-Nov-21 by Dusty Babitzke System Entry: Project sent for club signatures. 4-Nov-21 by Dusty Babitzke System Entry: Project signed by Dusty Babitzke. 4-Nov-21 by Paul Lucas System Entry: Project signed by J Paul Lucas. 8-Nov-21 System Entry System Entry: Project signed by Diane Moore. 15-Nov-21 by Sharron Miles System Entry: Project approved by the District Approval Committee. 30-Jun-22 by Sharron Miles System Entry: Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer. 30-Jun-22 by Dusty Babitzke System Entry: Project has been implemented and final report uploaded. 30-Jun-22 by Dusty Babitzke System Entry: Final report approved by the District Approval Committee.