Project Description Country: USA Location: Santee Total Budget: $750 Area of Focus: Basic education and literacy Activity Type: Education: General Summary: Monetary donations and supplies to organizations supporting literacy This grant includes donations to two organizations: Buddy's Backpacks will receive supplies in the amount of $250 for their annual school supply drive in honor of the late Buddy Rubaya. These backpacks full of supplies will be distributed to local children before the school year begins. Reading Legacies allows children to see and hear books read to them by their incarcerated mothers. This program will recieve $500 from our club. Volunteers, two of which are in our club, go to the local women's prison and recod women reading books to their children. Afterwards, the books and the video are sent to the child so they can see their mother reading to them, hoping to foster a lifelong love of reading. Project Contact Person District: 5340 Rotary Club of: Santee-Lakeside Primary Contact: Elana Levens-Craig Email: levenscraig@hotmail.com Project Status Submitted This project is "Submitted". This means that it needs to be signed by the club leadership. Notifications emails have been sent to these parties with instructions on how to digitally sign this project. Once all the signatures are collected, the status of the project will be automatically changed to "Signed". Project listed for the 2025-26 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Santee-Lakeside (5340) 8-Jul-25 $375 $375 $750 Total $375 $375 $750 DDF contributions in grey are pending approval of the corresponding district committee.

Project Supporting Documents Alphabetical with icons By date with icons Alphabetical list format By date list format [20-Jul-25] BB receipt 1 [20-Jul-25] BB receipt 2 [20-Jul-25] BB receipt 3

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History Log Entries 8-Jul-25 by Elana Levens-Craig System Entry: Creation of project page. 26-Aug-25 by Elana Levens-Craig System Entry: Project sent for club signatures. 27-Aug-25 by Alan Turner System Entry: Project signed by Elana Levens-Craig.