Families in Schools Grant

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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