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Organization - Families in Schools
Grant Amount - $200,000
Foundation - California Community Foundation
Grant Purpose - Two-year support to expand the Read with Me/Lea Conmigo family literacy book bag program, which promotes PreK-1 students' interest in reading and emergent literacy skills, targeting 2,000 kindergarteners in LAUSD districts 6 and 7 (South L.A., Crenshaw).
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Families in Schools - $150,000 from the California Community Foundation - To expand Read with Me/Lea Conmigo to 1,000 kindergarten students and support other local project costs.
Families in Schools - $342,795 from the California Community Foundation - To extend Read with Me/Lea Conmigo another 15 months to an additional 4,000 kindergarten students and their caregivers in 24 low-performing schools in Los Angeles and Long Beach.
Flint Institute of Arts - $84,000 from the Mott Foundation - This grant to the Flint Institute of Arts will sponsor two exhibitions of comic book art. Comics, Heroes, and American Visual Culture will feature more than 80 original drawings and paintings by some of the most well-known contributors to the comic...
Families in Schools - $223,000 from the California Community Foundation - One-year support to sustain the Read With Me program in four school districts and expand it to new schools within LAUSD, create supplementary communication and training materials, and hire a consultant to help develop a long-term fundraising plan.
Accelerated School - $130,250 from the California Community Foundation - Two-year support toward teacher professional development, a family reading program, and library books in order to measurably improve all students' reading skills.
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