Project Description Country: USA Location: Fort Collins, CO Total Budget: $2,400 Area of Focus: Basic education and literacy Activity Type: Education: General Summary: 2,500 backpacks and school supplies for low income K-12 students in the Poudre School District. School is Cool is a community outreach effort, managed and organized by Colorado State University employees, to provide backpacks and school supplies to low income K-12 students in the Poudre School District. This year, Front Range Community College is partnering with CSU in the project and demonstrates a commitment of both institutions of higher education to our community's K-12 students. We work in close collaboration with PSD administrations, teachers, and counselors to identify students that qualify for assistance. The schools then discretely give backpacks and supplies to these students at the start of the year, allowing them to start the school year with the tools they need to succeed in the classroom alongside their peers. Nearly 30% of PSD families live in households that meet (or exceed) federal poverty guidelines. This project is 100% funded by donations from the community and volunteers sort supplies, pack more than 2,500 backpacks and deliver them to the schools. The cost of backpacks and supplies has increased dramatically. In five years, the total cost of a filled backpack has increased by 24.51%. Spiral notebooks have increased 61%, pens are 43% more, and each empty backpack costs 43% more. Although we purchase in bulk with deep discounts through the CSU Bookstore, we struggle to meet the nearly $75,000 needed to provide 2,500 backpacks (our cost is $30/filled backpack). Packing and delivery of backpacks will take place Aug. 5-8 and Rotary volunteers will help deliver the backpacks to schools on Aug. 8. Project Contact Person District: 5440 Rotary Club of: Fort Collins Primary Contact: Maggie Walsh Email: maggie.walsh@colostate.edu Project Status Paid This project is "Paid". This means that the funds from the district have been issued. This project is now being ready for implementation. When this is done, a report needs to be uploaded on the project page and the "Reported" button needs to be clicked, then the status of the project will be changed to "Reported". Project listed for the 2024-25 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Fort Collins (5440) 5-Jun-24 $800 $1,600 $2,400 Total $800 $1,600 $2,400

Project Supporting Documents Alphabetical with icons By date with icons Alphabetical list format By date list format [5-Jun-24] School is Cool [20-Nov-24] School is Cool [5-Nov-24] SIC Project Update [5-Nov-24] SIC Testimonials

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History Log Entries 6-Jun-24 by David Dunne System Entry: Project sent for club signatures. 6-Jun-24 by David Dunne System Entry: Project signed by David Dunne. 1-Jul-24 by Randall Looper System Entry: Project approved by the District Approval Committee. 6-Aug-24 by Randall Looper David, I apologize for the delay in paying your grant. For the first time we received more grant requests than DDF was available. We cannot request the DDF till the report balances. To make that happen we have decided to cut the DDF from every grant. Your DDF request of $1,600 will be reduced to $1,450. If you have any questions please let me know. Randy 25-Sep-24 by Randall Looper System Entry: Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer. 9-Nov-24 by Maggie Walsh System Entry: Project has been implemented and final report uploaded. 10-Nov-24 by Randall Looper Maggie, If the project is complete you need to complete a District final report and upload it and copies of the receipts to the documents area. To download a district report go to the description tab. Click on the adminstration tab and about halfway down the page you will see "click here". Once you click there it will bring up the report. If you have any quaetions please let me know. Randy 10-Nov-24 by Randall Looper System Entry: Project reverted to "Paid".