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Project Description |
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Amount Funded |
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| Alice's Wonderland |
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To promote early literacy, this project will create a lending library and book give-away for children in her care. |
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$750.00 |
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| Barbara Sanders Family Child Care |
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To promote early literacy, this program will create a story time with stimulating visual aids and interactive materials that will help children learn language and reading skills through active exploration, and create a lending library of developmental toys and books that are age appropriate and culturally diverse. |
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$2,400.00 |
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| Carter's Children Center |
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To promote early literacy, this project will create a lending library. |
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$750.00 |
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| Catholic Charities of the East Bay/WCCUSD Even Start Family Program |
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To promote early literacy, this program will create a multi-cultural lending library and give away multi-cultural books for children age 0 to 5 to their families. |
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$2,392.00 |
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| CCC Early Learning Center |
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To promote early literacy, this project will create a lending library which includes a multi-cultural reading materials to be rotated weekly among parents of children age zero to five attending the center. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| CLARO |
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To promote early literacy, this program will use The Phonics Game to develop English language learning readiness in 10-15 parent players and up to 55 children. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Community Presbyterian Preschool |
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To promote early literacy, this program will create a story time with stimulating visual aids and interactive materials that will help children learn language and reading skills through active exploration. |
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$2,084.00 |
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| Concord Child Care Center, Inc. |
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To promote early literacy, this program will provide all five year olds attending their childcare center with transitional backpacks to increase opportunity for them to be ready to enter kindergarten. They will convene parent workshops and offer individual assistance to ensure a smooth transition. |
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$2,256.33 |
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| Contra Costa Children & Family Services |
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To promote early literacy, this program will purchase books to give away to foster children age zero to five entering the system. Foster parent workshops will be convened to help them develop skills as a reading role model for their foster children. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Contra Costa College Library |
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To promote early literacy, this project will purchase 100-300 high quality current multi-cultural children's books to add to the library's children's literature collection. The project will also promote and encourage early and family literacy among students and staff. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Contra Costa County Library - Martinez Branch |
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To promote early literacy, this project will expand the Stories to Go Program, which creates an environment for emergent literacy among low income children in Contra Costa County. This project trains volunteers to communicate the fun and imagination of stories using puppets, felt boards, finger plays, songs, etc. |
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$2,325.00 |
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| Contra Costa County Library & Concord CHDP Pediatric Clinic |
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To promote early literacy, this program will purchase new books for children ages zero to 5 years old. In collaboration with the Reach Out and Read Program, these books will be given away by pediatricians at every well-child visit. |
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$3,000.00 |
| Contra Costa County of Education Youth Development Sevice |
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To promote early literacy, this project will purchase and distribute 30 HIPPY curriculum sets. This includes nine storybooks, 30 weekly activity packets, a set of 20 manipulative shapes, children's scissors, crayons, paste or glue. The HIPPY program will train the parents to implement the curriculum to their children. |
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$3,000.00 |
| Contra Costa Library - Oakley Branch |
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To promote early literacy, this project will increase its Spanish language collection of books and videos for preschool children. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Contra Costa Library & Richmond CHDP Pediatric Clinic |
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To promote early literacy, this program will purchase new books for children ages zero to 5 years old. In collaboration with the Reach Out and Read Program, these books will be given away by pediatricians at every well-child visit. |
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$1,850.00 |
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| Court Appointed Special Advocate |
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To promote early literacy, this project will create a lending library of books, developmental toys, games, and age appropriate videos. |
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$1,590.00 |
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| Diablo Valley College Developmental Children's Center |
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To promote early literacy, this project will sponsor four book give-aways to 75 children age zero to five each session. |
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$2,400.00 |
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| EbuVillage Family Daycare |
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To promote early literacy, this project will create a 12 theme lending library. |
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$2,850.00 |
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| Estella Sierra/Little Angels |
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To promote early literacy, this program will mentor providers in cultural diversity enrichment in their programs for both children and parents, followed by a lending library. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Family Stress Center |
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To promote early literacy, this program will purchase books and pre-reading materials to give away to families of children age zero to five. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Freba Amin (Little Angels) |
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To promote early literacy, this project will set up a lending library for children age zero to five. These lending packs will include books and developmentally appropriate toys. |
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$2,290.00 |
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| Friends of Richmond Public Library/LEAP |
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To promote early literacy, this program will purchase books to give away at 300 preschool children during story time events held at their preschools. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Gan Ilan |
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To promote early literacy, this program will create a lending library for children age zero to five. |
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$600.00
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| Gearline Duplessis |
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To promote early literacy, this project will create a multi-cultural learning library. |
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$2,600.00
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Girls Incorporated of West Contra Costa County
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To promote early literacy, this project will sponsor a three-week series of Saturday storytelling sessions with book give-aways for children age zero to five. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Happy Family Child Day Care |
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To promote early literacy, this project will create a multi-cultural lending library. |
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$500.00 |
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| Housing Authority of the County of Contra Costa/Project PRIDE Rec. |
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To promote early literacy, this program will offer playgroups and storytelling activities focused on early learning skills while providing culturally and linguistically appropriate pre-reading materials for children age zero to five. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Janeen Rockwell |
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To promote early literacy, this project will create a lending library. |
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$2,400.00 |
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| Keys to Life Christian Center |
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To promote early literacy, this project will develop and implement an interactive reading carnival. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| La Casita Bilingue |
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To promote early literacy, this project will create a three-part multi-cultural reading program for its students, their parents, and the public. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Martinez Early Childhood Center, Inc |
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To promote early literacy, this program will create a book backpack lending library for children age 0-5 to take home to share with their families. |
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$2,350.00 |
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| Miss Marlene's Complete Child Care |
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To promote early literacy, this program will work with Crossroads High School in Concord to create and distribute a mini library (5-7 books) for children age 0-5 to take home to share with their families. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Mt. Diablo Community Child Care Advocates |
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To promote early literacy, this program will create a multi-cultural library including parent resource books and take-home language and literacy lending packs. They will also host a storytelling event with book give-aways to children zero to five and their families. |
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$2,352.00 |
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| New Connections |
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To promote early literacy, this program will purchase developmentally appropriate toys for children 0 to 5. |
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$1,052.00
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| Pittsburg Adult Education Center |
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To promote early literacy, this program will create a multicultural library, give away multicultural paperback books to the preschoolers, and purchase Hooked on Phonics level one to be used in the classroom setting. |
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$3,000.00
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| Reach Out & Read Program/Kaiser Permanente |
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To promote early literacy, this program will purchase new books for children ages 6 months to 5 years old. In collaboration with the Reach Out and Read Program, these books will be given away by pediatricians at every well-child visit. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| San Ramon Valley YMCA |
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To promote early literacy, this project will work with children zero to five attending this program to create personalized books using the "Alphabet Soup" theme. |
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$740.00 |
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| SHELTER, Inc. of Contra Costa County |
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To promote early literacy, this program will create a multicultural lending library for children age 0 to 5 that reside in their homeless shelters. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Sobel Family Child Care |
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To promote early literacy, this project will add a family literacy component to the monthly planning meeting that parents are required to attend. The component will include professional storytellers, previewing age appropriate books and encouraging parents to attend community theater productions. The project will also create a multi-cultural lending library. |
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$2,412.00 |
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| Social Progress, Inc. |
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To promote early literacy, this project will convene 8-10 Storytelling workshops targeted at children age zero to five and their parents. Books will be given to workshop participants. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| St. Mark's Christian Preschool |
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To promote early literacy, this project will develop a lending library for children age zero to five and their parents. |
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$500.00 |
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| STAND! Against Domestic Violence |
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To promote early literacy, this program will convene a parent workshop to teach families how to create family folklore and offer a storytelling series. Children will receive free books at each session. |
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$2,520.00 |
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| Teenage Resource Center |
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To promote early literacy, this project will sponsor four family reading nights targeted at teen parents. Professional storytellers will teach and encourage teen parents of children zero to five how to incorporate literacy at home. |
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$2,150.00 |
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| The Perinatal Council |
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To promote early literacy, this project will purchase developmental toys and books and create a lending library for the Pittsburg and Richmond Family Resource Centers. They will also give away some developmental toys and books for children age zero to five. The target of their project is teen mothers and adult mothers participating in their programs. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Toni Teixeira Family Child Care |
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To promote early literacy, this project will sponsor two Family Fun with Books events with book give-aways and highlighting early literacy. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Towers Preparatory School Pre-School |
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To promote early literacy, this project will create a multi-cultural learning library. |
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$500.00 |
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Vicki's Playhouse
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To promote early literacy, this project will create a lending library. |
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$2,365.00 |
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| Village Family Resource Center |
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To promote early literacy, this project will create a multicultural learning library. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Welcome Home Baby |
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To promote early literacy, this program will purchase bilingual books to give away to families of children age 0 to 5 during their home visits. |
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$3,000.00 |
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Total |
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$32,187.00 |
