Project Description Country: USA Location: Fort Collins, CO Total Budget: $1,500 Area of Focus: Basic education and literacy Activity Type: Education: General Summary: Purchasing school supplies and backpacks, packing backpacks, and delivering them to schools to provide necessary school tools for underserved K-12 students in 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. New tariffs have increased prices of school supplies even more for 2025. Although we purchase in bulk with deep discounts through the CSU Bookstore, we struggle to meet the nearly $80,000 needed to provide 2,500 backpacks (our cost is $35/filled backpack). Packing and delivery of backpacks will take place Aug. 4-7 and Rotary and CSU Rotaract volunteers will help deliver the backpacks to schools on Aug. 7. 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 2025-26 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Fort Collins (5440) 6-May-25 $500 $1,000 $1,500 Total $500 $1,000 $1,500

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History Log Entries 6-May-25 by Maggie Walsh System Entry: Creation of project page. 9-May-25 by Randy Looper Maggie You need to adjust the DDF total. If you look at the District grant guidelines for Grants you can only get a maximum of $1,000 if it is a repeat grant. If you go to this link go to the bottom and click on 5440 District Grant Guidelines. Under restrictions the third one explains this. Randy 16-May-25 by Robin Steele System Entry: Project is now "Fully Pledged". 16-May-25 by Robin Steele System Entry: Project reverted to "Published". 16-May-25 by Robin Steele System Entry: Project is now "Fully Pledged". 22-May-25 by Randy Looper Maggie, Can you please add a budget of income and expenses to the documents area of the grant. also, please have your current PE complete the grant qualification training and send the answers to me so I can get them the MOU that needs to be signed. Randy 24-May-25 by David Dunne System Entry: Project sent for club signatures. 24-May-25 by David Dunne System Entry: Project signed by David Dunne. 27-May-25 by Troy Tafoya System Entry: Project signed by Troy Tafoya. 1-Jul-25 by Randy Looper Maggie, The District had $18,000 more grant requests than available DDF for the 25 - 26 grant year. In order to meet the available DDF it was determined that we need to reduce the 3 tier levels to the next lower tier or $1,000 and reduce the scholarship and repeat grants by $500. I have cancelled your signature process and reduced your DDF request by $500. You will need to either reduce the total budget for your grant or increase your club giving by $500 so it balances. Once you have made this adjustment please start the signature process again. If you have any questions please email or call me at 970-629-0654. Randy 1-Jul-25 by Randy Looper System Entry: Signature Process cancelled by user. 1-Jul-25 by Randy Looper System Entry: Project reverted to "Published". 8-Aug-25 by Randy Looper Maggie, Just a reminder you need to adjust your budget so the grant balances and than complete the signature process with you and Troy signing. Once both of those steps are complete I can approve the grant and send the club a check. Let me know if you have any questions. Randy 27-Aug-25 by Randy Looper Maggie I was able to adjust your budget so please start the signature process. Troy and yourself will need to sign. Also, we cannot make checks directly to CSU. So once the signature process has been completed and the grant approved I will write a check to Fort Collins Rotary. Randy 27-Aug-25 by Randy Looper Maggie You need both yours and Troy's signatures. So please start the signature process again with both of you signing. Thanks, Randy 27-Aug-25 by Randy Looper System Entry: Project is now "Fully Pledged". 27-Aug-25 by Maggie Walsh System Entry: Project sent for club signatures. 27-Aug-25 by Maggie Walsh System Entry: Project signed by Maggie Walsh. 27-Aug-25 by Randy Looper System Entry: Signature Process cancelled by user. 27-Aug-25 by Maggie Walsh System Entry: Project sent for club signatures. 27-Aug-25 by Maggie Walsh System Entry: Project signed by Maggie Walsh. 31-Aug-25 by Randy Looper System Entry: Project approved by the District Approval Committee. 1-Sep-25 by Randy Looper System Entry: Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer. 12-Sep-25 by Randy Looper System Entry: Project approved by the District Approval Committee. 12-Sep-25 by Randy Looper System Entry: Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer. 16-Nov-25 by John Trone Check from District 5440 was received.