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| Auntie Doobies Kids |
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This project will raise awareness of the importance of early literacy, and will support early reading skills and the love of books. It will encourage family time and sharing and will provide parents with the tools they need to show a love for reading. |
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$1,500.00 |
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| Big Bertha’s Family Child Care |
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This project will take place around Valentine's Day, with the theme: LOVE TO READ. I want to involve the communities in a literacy workshop, to build the pleasure and habit of reading, get families involved in literacy, and provide educational entertainment for families, activities that enrich and encourage children's curiosity. |
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$1,500.00 |
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| Bright Star Christian Children's Center |
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This project will create custom books and a lending library for families. Each child will receive a book created with photos documenting their learning experiences at school. The lending library will include class books created by the teachers, children and parents; literature theme packets; and developmental toys. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Bunny Run Small Family Child Care |
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The ‘No Place Like Home’ project will provide enhanced opportunities for reading and language development through daily play and interaction. |
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$1,500.00 |
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| Calvary Christian Preschool |
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The Bookworm Lending Library will provide families with children two to five years of age with the opportunity to select books of age appropriate levels and use them at home. Along with the books we will provide a journal for the families to share what they came to know about the story, and give the children the opportunity to share these ideas with other classmates. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Campbell Family Daycare |
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I would like to establish a lending library and have a fireside pajama party to kick it off. I want to create a reading incentive program for parents and children and they can earn credits for a free book. |
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$1,500.00 |
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| Center for Human Development |
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This project is two-fold. The first day will consist of storytelling and hands-on thematic arts and crafts. Each child will be give a free book. The second day will be devoted to the parents of the young children, helping them understand the importance of helping their children be successful readers. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Childhaven Preschool |
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We would like to establish a lending library to extend the learning of zoo-phonics to the home environment and encourage parents to read to and spend time with their children. |
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$1,500.00 |
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| Contra Costa Community Services Department |
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Project funds will support a new after-hours literacy program in San Pablo, building an early childhood library and providing age-appropriate reading materials in a festive classroom setting. Skilled early childhood educators will provide reading techniques training and free books to 120 low-income parents and families. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Contra Costa County Library |
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Wilruss Office - The Contra Costa County Library's Stories To Go program would like to supplement its kit collection with individual book titles that have a multicultural theme and/or multicultural characters. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Contra Costa County Library |
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Danville Library - I would like to promote literacy in the Danville and Alamo communities by establishing a Stories-to-Go program. This program would target pre-school age children by fostering a love of reading at an early age. I would like to host a story time training party at the Danville Library. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Contra Costa County Library |
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Wilruss Office - As part of the Reach Out and Read program, Spanish language books at appropriate developmental levels would be purchased and distributed to Spanish speaking and bilingual families. The purpose of this program component is to underscore the fact that children learn better in their native language and acquire the same preliteracy skills they need for school readiness while maintaining their cultural identity. |
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$3,000.00 |
| Contra Costa County Library |
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Pittsburg Branch - This project will bring children and parents together at the library to experience live performances of books. Children will interact with the performers and afterwards snack and work on an easy craft. Kits with a lesson, a puppet, and parenting materials will be distributed. |
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$3,000.00 |
| Dade's Child Care |
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This project will drawn on a broad range of strategies to develop language and reading skills and balance between basic skills and language. The project will support the children's reading skills and include modeling reading, writing, speaking and listening. It will introduce children to phonemic awareness, letter sounds and basic concepts. |
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$1,500.00 |
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| Deborah Calbert |
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The purpose of this project is to purchase books to give to children in my family child care program ages 0-5 years of age. In addition, I will create a lending library with books and reading/story materials (puppets, flannel stories, etc). |
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$1,500.00 |
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| Fine Arts Preschool |
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All About Me is an early literacy project for 116 children in the Fine Arts Preschool of Civic Arts Education. It will engage children, parents and teachers in creating personal 'journals' of photos, art and written descriptions, developing storytelling, written and oral language, particularly important for ESL families. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| First Baptist Head Start |
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This project will target helping Head Start fathers better understand how their children learn to read and the role they can play in this process. First Baptist Head Start fathers and male role models will be provided literacy training through the 'Ready to Read' parent workshop series. The literacy project will focus on the important role fathers play in helping their children develop an appreciation for books and other literacy material. At the end of the workshop, fathers will receive a literacy backpack to share with their children at home. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Friends of the Richmond Public Library/LEAP |
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LEAP’s Families for Literacy with Ready, Set, Read funding will conduct the Preschool Literacy Project at five inner-city schools where LEAP provides tutoring for parents and their children in after-school programs. Story times and free book distributions to 300 preschool children will be provided, as well as parent outreach |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Grace Cooperative Preschool |
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Our goal to increase literacy is two-fold. First, we plan to increase literacy awareness and interest among the families with a storytelling event and book presentation. Second, we plan to create a lending library that will reinforce literature presented in the classroom, along with suggestions for reading with the children. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| GRIP Homeless Shelter |
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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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Our project is to provide homeless families with instructions and tips on how to stimulate, motivate and educate parents with children from prenatal to five years of age, about children's major stages of development, and how children learn through play, with age appropriate developmental toys that stimulate their minds, develop their motor skills and prepare them for pre-reading skills. Educating parents about the importance of pre reading skills will promote family literacy and begin the process of family bonding, with a sector of society that has fallen through the cracks. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Heart 2 Heart Family Daycare/Preschool |
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I will create a lending library that will serve children 0-5 years. I will have backpacks with a set of books that will rotate on a bi-weekly basis. I will have multi-cultural books and a year-long library. |
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$1,500.00 |
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| Homayra Arghandiwal |
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I would like to create an age appropriate lending library for my family child care home. I would also like to buy books on child development that parents could refer to and take home to read. |
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$1,500.00
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| Jacquie's Kids Family Child Care |
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This project will promote literacy for families with children 0-5, by offering a lending library where parents can check out literacy materials such as books, games, and developmental toys to engage parent and child for positive interaction. There will be a kick off ceremony where the whole family can attend. |
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$1,500.00
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Kaiser Permanente/Reach Out & Read Program
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Reach Out and Read is a pediatric literacy program, which makes early literacy a part of pediatric practice. It is an easily implemented program that provides families that have limited resources an opportunity to create a home environment that fosters an early love of books. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Keys to Life Christian Center |
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KTL will provide a carnival like event that will attract parents with children ages 0-5. Booths, a carnival like setting, stage performances by cartoon like characters, and food will provide a forum for educators to provide parents with reading tips and child development activities, while outreach workers will be able to connect parents and children to services that support adult literacy, bilingual education, and school readiness. Prizes, literacy games, and pre-literate books will be given to those who participate. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| La Clinca De La Raza Pittsburg |
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La Clinica will implement a family literacy project at its Pittsburg Medical Clinic (La Clinica Pittsburg) in east Contra Costa County. At every well child visit, the medical provider will recommend that parents and/or caregivers read to their children ages 0-5 regularly and give each child an age, culturally and language-appropriate book to take home. The project aims to encourage parents and caregivers to read to their children as part of an effort to develop early cognitive and reading skills for children ages 0-5. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| La Maison des Petits |
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The Lending library will be the central feature of the project to involve families, children and early educators. It will allow me to use recommended materials to introduce early literacy for school readiness. |
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$1,500.00 |
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| Lida's Daycare |
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The Family Library Project will allow a parent and child to check out a backpack of books, puppets, developmental toys, musical instruments and feedback sheets at my Daycare. We will celebrate with a literacy party to review storyboard activities, songs, puppets and BIG BOOKS. |
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$1,500.00 |
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| Liling Liao |
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The purpose of this project is to encourage the children to love and read books. It also enhances the importance for the parents to read to their children especially at their very young age. Furthermore, parents can still get some good parenting knowledge for this activity. |
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$1,500.00 |
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| Lincoln Elementary School |
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Our project consists of assisting parents in the development of learning programs and lending learning material for their children ages 0-5 years old. This project is an expansion of current services offered at our family learning center. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Lisa Romano's Family ChildCare |
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To promote early literacy, this project will create a lending library. |
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$1,500.00 |
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| Mama Bears Playcare |
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I would like to have a two-part workshop that educates the parents and caregivers of young children 0-5 on pre-literacy skills and the many benefits of reading. We will empower these adults and give them hands-on experience and tools so that they may work with their own children with confidence and joy. |
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$1,500.00 |
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| Martinez Adult Education |
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This project will provide families with children 0-5 years of age with three Parent Nights (babysitting included). Activities will include educational speakers that will engage parents in activities they can do with their children to promote reading and emergent literacy. Reading logs will be sent home at Parent Nights for family reading interaction. The completed reading log will then be a ticket to a free book at one of the Family Nights. At Parent Nights, Scholastic Books will be selling books; proceeds will purchase books to give away at our Family Nights. At two of the three Parent Nights, parents will receive a free book to take home to their child(ren). At Family NIghts, families will be active participants in a PJ storytelling night, and/or a music extravaganza, 'The Songs We Love To Sing.' |
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$3,000.00
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| Mt. Diablo Adult Education |
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We propose developing a children's room/lending library of early language and literacy development materials for use in the Family Literacy Center as well as home by ESL parents and their preschool children. These materials will be an enjoyable way for parents and children to grow together in language and literacy. |
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$3,000.00
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| Mt. Diablo Region YMCA |
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We will create a Four Week Multi-Cultural Literacy Project with parent kick-off and celebration events, and a lending library for focused reading projects at five YMCA child care locations throughout greater Contra Costa County service area. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Northern California Family Center |
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We are proposing to set up a beginning mini library of 3-6 books for each child ages 0-5 of teen parents in the Contra Costa County area attending high school. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Phoebe's Family Childcare |
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I would like to invest in children's books and toys that are age appropriate and books that would help parents understand their child's development, encouraging both parents and children to read more often by lending them out. |
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$1,500.00 |
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| Pittsburg Adult Education Center |
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To promote early literacy, this project provides five family literacy events. Preschoolers and parents celebrate ethnic diversity through early childhood development multicultural stories read by Soroptimists and Kiwanis, music, and food. It will also give away the books read to the students and augment the classroom library. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Point Richmond Association of Moms |
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There are two goals of this project: 1. To establish an exchange library in our local community in order to increase literacy and 2. To conduct a series of lectures on literacy in order to facilitate family literacy knowledge and activities. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Professional Association for Childhood Education - Alternative Payment Program |
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A family literacy event to educate parents and promote reading to their young children. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| R Gang Family Daycare & Preschool/ A. Sue Jobe |
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The project has two parts. The first is to provide parents with a set of 15 books that coincide with the unit/concept their child is learning at R Gang. The second is to empower parent with essential tools to be able to read to their children with confidence and consistency. |
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$1,500.00 |
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| Rise and Shine |
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This project will build a library corner for very young readers. This fantastic library will offer story cassettes that kids can read along with or listen to. Families will have the opportunity to check out these stories and share them with their children. |
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$1,500.00 |
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| Ross Learning Center |
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This project will offer 4 activities:
- "Special Needs Workshop - Tackles issues/question & ans. portion bet. speaker behaviorist & parents & daycare providers of children w/special needs.
- Puppet Show - Fun, entertaining, stimulates the dev. of a child, parent/child interaction.
- Storytelling - Stories & Reading perks-up the interest needed to reach goal.
- Lending Library - Books, videos, puzzles, puppets, toys, available now and enhances relationship between parent/child."
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$1,500.00 |
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| Sherilyn's Home Preschool |
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I will build a book and developmental toy lending library with an emphasis on diversity (e.g., multi- cultures and children with disabilities). In addition, I will request that each family take photos involved with the book or engaged in play with a toy and/or write in a journal about their experiences. |
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$1,500.00 |
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| Small Steps Infant & Toddler Care |
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Books, Audios and Videos will be lent out to parents on themes like friendship, respect, sharing, acceptance, cooperation, responsibilities, honesty, etc. Developmental toys will also be lent out. The project will try to encourage parents' involvement in preparing pre-school children for kindergarten. It will impress upon parents that parents are the first teachers for their children. The Project Coordinator will have regular sessions with the parents on the importance and advantages of 1st hand learning. |
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$1,500.00 |
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St. John Preschool
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We would like to offer our preschool families a Book and Toy Lending Library that will promote parent involvement in at-home teaching and play using strategies from classrooms. Our goal is to provide a literacy rich environment that encourages parents to spend time in the Lending Library working individually with their child. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| St. Mark's Christian Preschool |
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This project will provide literacy materials to children attending our Junior Kindergarten setting. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| STAND! Against Domestic Violence |
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Stand! Against Domestic Violence is requesting funds to bring storytelling, reading readiness, and fun to child victims of domestic violence, ages 0-5 years, residing in our Emergency Shelter and Transitional Housing Facilities. STAND! staff had prioritized reading readiness as a resiliency factor in helping children to take control of their environment and their lives. Children residing in our Emergency Shelter and Transitional Housing facilities will be asked to attend five, 40 minute storytelling presentations throughout a nine month period. Presentations by the Three Penny Players will be imaginative and culturally diverse. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Sue's Family Day Care |
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To promote early literacy and parent/child interaction, this project will create a Lending Library with interactive materials available to help children learn language and reading skills through active exploration. |
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$1,500.00 |
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| Sycamore Christian Preschool |
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This project will provide opportunities of the children to develop literacy skills in both Japanese and English. We propose to form a lending library of books and developmental toys in both languages to be used at home so that the parents can be involved in the process. We would also like to give the children quality hardcover books on their birthdays. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Tender Loving Care Daycare/Preschool |
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This project will consist of parents from the daycare/preschool participating twice a month in classes on reading, arts and crafts, story telling and phonics. The classes will help parents develop teaching skills and will give the children a chance to advance learning. |
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$1,500.00 |
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| The Nurturing Nest |
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Through a weekly lending library, I will provide parents with toys and books to interact with their children. |
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$1,500.00 |
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| The Perinatal Council |
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We are proposing a Family Literacy Project where we will encourage and teach our parents to read to their children. Research has shown that children who learn language and reading early have a better chance at succeeding in school. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| The Pumpkin Patch Preschool and Family Child Care |
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The Pumpkin Patch Preschool is starting a lending library to be utilized by our daycare families, a community Housing Project and State funded Housing located nearby. The major parts will include books in both English and Spanish, books depicting different cultures and types of families, pictures books, and many old favorites. |
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$1,500.00 |
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| Theresa Skrentny |
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I will do 4 jammy-story time nights for the parents and their children. The parents will learn how to read with their children at home and be able to enjoy themselves at the same time. Prior to these story times I will have a parent education night (child care provided) to educate the parents on the importance of reading aloud to their children and to help them identify early literacy skills in their children. I will also set up a lending library to promote early literacy at home. |
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$1,500.00 |
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| United Together |
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To provide a resource center for the neighboring school and community that will offer books, audio/video tapes, games, and other reading materials which will promote literacy and positive interaction for families with children ages 0-5. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Walnut Country Preschool |
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A series of 3 storytelling nights (interactive) will introduce our new lending library to preschool families. Early Steps to Reading Success teaches that literacy happens along a developmental continuum through 'playing, talking, reading, writing, and learning the code'. Each book pack in our lending library will contain a book and interactive materials to provide an exciting, share 'family literacy experience.' |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Wee Wonders Family Child Care & Preschool |
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My goal is to increase the awareness of early literacy in young children for my families. Teaching my families that reading aloud to young children is important because it helps them acquire the information and skills they need to succeed in school and life. I will provide a variety of books for them to take home and experience the joy of reading with their children. |
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$1,500.00 |
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| Welcome Home Baby/Moss Beach Home |
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Welcome Home Baby would like to purchase children's books in English, Farsi, Spanish, Tagalog and Mandarin. There is a great need for our low-income families to have books because they cannot afford to buy them and many are too isolated to access the local libraries. Family literacy is a major outcome for WHB and providing books to help the parents to read frequently to their babies and toddlers. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| West Contra Costa Unified School District |
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Provides a 'giving' library of books to infant, toddlers, preschoolers and their families in the WCCUSD's early intervention program. We will purchase Spanish and English books. With this literacy project, children will receive books and parents will be coached (home visiting, videos, classes at Cameron) in 'reading' to their children. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| West County Reads |
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West County Reads, a collaboration of over 20 organizations, seeking to ensure that every young child in West Contra Costa is read to 20 minutes each day, will publish a calendar of community literacy events. The Calendar will list regular story book readings at libraries, community centers and bookstores. The calendar will also display inspirational messages about reading in artwork produced by West contra Costa children. West County Reads will then distribute the calendar for free to disadvantaged neighborhoods in Richmond and San Pablo. |
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$3,000.00 |
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$142,500.00 |
