2007

Grants 2005
Bright Beginnings, Inc. DC                        $3,000
A childcare program serving preschool aged children of Washington DC area homeless families to establish a library of books that the children and their parents can read together. The library space is located in a community area where bulletin board information is posted.

Reading Is Fundamental, Austin, TX                $1,500
A well-established program distributing books to poverty-level school aged children in Austin where the books are theirs to keep.

Unique Learning Center                        $2,000
A story and book program reaching early and emergent readers in extreme poverty.

VA Dept. of Correctional Education, VA         $4,000
A program in Virginias prisons serving incarcerated men and women with limited or no access to career learning materials. This grant added to their rotating collection which is available to a wide prison population, and added career learning materials.

Child Care Choices, Tipp City, OH                        $1000
For the purchase of books for this worthwhile Story Lady program reaching early and pre-readers in in-home child care situations.

DC Public Library Foundation, Wash DC                 $2000
For the purchase of books for their emergent literacy program books kits, which provide resources for over 120 in-home child-care providers, reaching over 360 impoverished children.

DC Public Library Foundation, Wash DC                 $500
To fund take home books which supplement the Emergent Literacy Kits program. In many cases, this will be the first book the children own.

Desert Area Resources & Training, Ridgecrest, CA         $1000
To buy developmentally appropriate books for their preschool serving at risk children. They have had a 100% increase in enrollment in the last year.

Stuart Hall School for Boys, New Orleans, LA         $3750
To fund libraries for Pre-K thru 2nd grade classrooms which were destroyed during hurricane Katrina.

Mississippi State University Extension Service         $3750
To fund books for this program serving and educating over 140 in-home providers in the most impoverished areas of MS. Over 30 lost all their books and learning materials in Katrina and many more suffered extensive damage.