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| Contra Costa County Library |
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The Wilruss Office of the Contra Costa County Library seeks to develop a starter collection of 75 storytime kits and make them available to preschool and family childcare centers in low-income communities within the country. By attending a literacy/literature training workshop, staff at these sites would become eligible to check out kits. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Contra Costa County Library |
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By creating a reading area in the Richmond Pediatrics Clinic, the library and medical staff can spread the message of literacy. Funding for furniture and materials promote and support an environment conducive to reading and the sharing of books. Children and parents will see firsthand the joy and importance reading. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Contra Costa County Library - Richmond Pediatrics Clinic |
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By creating a reading area in the Richmond Pediatrics Clinic, the library and medical staff can spread the message of literacy. Funding for furniture and materials promote and support an environment conducive to reading and the sharing of books. Children and parents will see firsthand the joy and importance reading. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Contra Costa County Office of Education - Youth Development Services Department |
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The Youth Development Services Department (YDS), in partnership with KQED PBS KIDS 'Ready to Learn' Program, will provide 15 low-income parents with preschool children, a hands-on cognitive and science book workshop at KQED. Thirty participants in the Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters will also receive 30 weeks of free HIPPY curriculum. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Contra Costa County Office of Education |
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My class visits the library at Turner Elementary School and has stories read to them each week. They also have the opportunity to check out books to share in our classroom and then at home. Turner Elementary kindergarten students have the opportunity to listen to a story in the library and the teach checks out books for them to use in the classroom. This grant money would provide more books appropriate for students in both groups who are five years old, to enjoy. |
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$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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Working with child development centers and kindergarten classes at three West County Elementary Schools, we will enrich existing parent & family education nights by producing and performing a puppet show for the children, while training parents to use literacy kits we produce and provide for them upon completion of training. |
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$3,000.00 |
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Oakley Unified School District
Laurel Community |
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This project will provide parents and preschool children with a lending library of take-home, and storytelling packs to help support their early literacy experiences. It will also provide parent education by modeling of lessons so that parents can use the materials to help enrich their children intellectual and language abilities. |
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$2932.18 |
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| LEAP/ Richmond Public Library |
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Early Childhood Education and Parent/Child time together will be addressed through a series of parent/child events that will teach parents how to use books and other pre-literacy materials with their children to master the following concepts: colors, shapes, numbers, letters, sorting, time and healthy eating. |
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$10,000.00 |
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| Mt. Diablo Adult Education |
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Participants will create family journals/oral histories/albums involving their young children, producing family-centered writing with photos to be 'published', shared and kept as family records. Literature with family themes will be used in both parent-child reading and as writing prompts. The resulting books will honor families' histories, cultures and developing literacy. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Mt. Diablo Adult Education |
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Ready Set Read will be implemented into the curriculum of the Parent Education Classes at Crossroads High School for Ten Mothers. This project is based on the pre-literacy program, 'Raising a Reader', which is a take-home Book Bag Program. Book Bag Kits, including a training video for parents and a Library Book Bag, totaling $2,560.00 are rotated weekly among families. The Pocket Chart ($30.00) details a 'calendar' for weekly distribution. The project will supplement the kits with additional books to be given to families purchased through Scholastic Book Club ($131.00). |
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$3,000.00 |
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Oakley School |
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Funds are requested to provide a lending library for students in the Oakley School Family Literacy Class. These library materials will also be available for checkout by students and teachers in Oakley School's four preschool classes and five kindergartens. Materials include books in Spanish and English., cassette tapes and videos. |
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$3,000.00 |
| Pittsburg Adult Education Center |
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The Through Reading, We are One Project promotes literacy and pre-reading skills for children, ages 3-5. This project includes the following features: Multicultural reading units, snacks, and music; Exposure to geographical locations of the cultures covered; Expanded school multicultural library; Early literacy skills for parents and children, including Hooked on Phonics; Family Reading Nights with a book giveaway to establish or augment a home multicultural library; Parent-child reading pledge and log. |
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$3,000.00 |
| Point Richmond Association of Moms |
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There are two goals of this project: 1. To establish a multi-cultural experience library in our local community fieldhouse in order to increase literacy and 2. To conduct a series of lectures in other languages on literacy in order to facilitate family literacy knowledge and activities. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Prospects High School |
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This project will create a lending library for teen parents at Prospects High School. The library will be used as part of an elective course for teen parents. They will utilize the lending library to promote literacy in their children and also get school elective credit. The lending library will help parents who are financially unable to buy these materials or cannot get to the public library. I will also hold a Literacy Day where I will instruct the teen parents on how to promote literacy and develop their children's love for reading. As part of the Literacy Day I will give each student several books and developmental toys to start their own family library at home. Students who are unable to attend the meeting will also be given materials to start their family library and receive one on one instruction on how to promote and increase their children's love for reading. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| San Ramon Library, CCC Library |
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This project will promote literacy in the San Ramon community by providing a large collection of recently published, phonics-based easy readers to be used by children beginning at age 3 1/2 and their parents. Patrons, especially those families new to this country, request books to help with early reading skills. |
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$2,571.00 |
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| Walnut Creek School District |
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Walnut Creek School District would like to create a lending library for families in the Family Literacy Class. Children's books (both Spanish and English) will be sent home in book bags along with a journal so parents can apply the literacy skills they are learning in the class. At the end of the year we will have a raffle give-away so parents and children can keep the books they enjoyed reading most. |
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$2,252.00 |
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| West Contra Costa Adult Education |
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We propose to buy developmental toys and books to be used by the children of the approximately 400 families in Richmond and San Pablo who we currently serve in our family literacy program. The toys will be lent out for use. The books will be given to families to keep. |
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$3,000.00 |
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| Ed Fund/West County Reads |
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West County Reads will collaborate with the WCCUSD preschools to provide age appropriate books and literacy information to preschool students and their families. West County Reads will provide parent education workshops to discuss the importance of reading to their children as well as referrals for adult literacy programs. |
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$3,000.00 |
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Total |
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$67,255.18 |
