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| Auntie Doobies Kids | | This project will increase the awareness of the importance to early literacy. Support early reading skills and the love of books. Encourage family time and sharing. most important with parents showing a love for reading the children will have the greatest role model of all to follow. | | $1,500.00 |
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| Big Bertha’s Family Child Care | | I want to involve the communities in a literacy workshop, to build the pleasure and habit of reading. (focused on children ages 0-5 and their parents) Get families involved in literacy that encourage creativity and provide educational entertainment for families, activities that enrich and encourage chilren's curiosity. This project will take place around Valentine's Day, with the theme: LOVE TO READ. | | $1,500.00 |
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| Bright Star Christian Children's Center | | 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. | | $3,000.00 |
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| Bunny Run Small Family Child Care | | The‘No Place Like Home’ project will provide enhanced opportunities for reading and language development through daily play and interaction | | $1,500.00 |
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| Calvary Christian Preschool | | The Bookworkm Lending Library will provide families with children two to five years of age with the opportunity to select books of age approriate 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 childrne the opportunity to share these ideas with other classmates. | | $3,000.00 |
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| Campbell Family Daycare | | I would like to establish a lending library and have a fineside pyjama party to kick it off. I want to create a reading incentive program for parents and childrena wehre they can earn credits for a free book. | | $1,500.00 |
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| Center for Human Development | | 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. | | $3,000.00 |
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| Childhaven Preschool | | 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. | | $1,500.00 |
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| Contra Costa Community Services Department | | 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. | | $3,000.00 |
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| Contra Costa County Library | | 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. | | $3,000.00 |
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| Contra Costa County Library | | 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. | | $3,000.00 |
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| Contra Costa County Library | | 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 sam preliteracy skills they need for school readiness while maintaining their cultural identity. | | $3,000.00 |
| Contra Costa County Library | | 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. | | $3,000.00 |
| Dade's Child Care | | 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. | | $1,500.00 |
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| Deborah Calbert | | The purpose fo this project is to purchase books to give to children in my family child care program ages 0-5 years of age. In addition, purchase books, and reading/story materials (puppets, flannel stories, etc.) for a lending library. | | $1,500.00 |
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| Fine Arts Preschool | | 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. | | $3,000.00 |
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| First Baptist Head Start | | 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. | | $3,000.00 |
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| Friends of the Richmond Public Library/LEAP | | 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. Storytimes and free book distributions to 300 preschool children will be provided, as well as parent outreach | | $3,000.00 |
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| Grace Cooperative Preschool | | 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. | | $3,000.00 |
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| GRIP Homeless Shelter | | To promote early literacy, this program will purchase books and pre-reading materials to give away to families of children age zero to five. | | $3,000.00 |
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| Freba Amin (Little Angels) | | 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. | | $3,000.00 |
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| Heart 2 Heart Family Daycare/Preschool | | I will have 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. | | $1,500.00 |
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| Homayra Arghandiwal | | I would like to buy some additional age appropriate books for my family child care home and make them available to parents for check out. I would also like to buy books on child development that parents could refer to and take home to read. | | $1,500.00
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| Jacquie's Kids Family Child Care | | 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. | | $1,500.00
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Kaiser Permanente/Reach Out & Read Program
| | 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. | | $3,000.00 |
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| Keys to Life Christian Center | | 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. | | $3,000.00 |
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| La Clinca De La Raza Pittsburg | | 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. | | $3,000.00 |
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| La Maison des Petits | | The Lending library will be the centra feature of the project to involve families, children adn early educators. It will allow me to use recommended materials to introduce early literacy for school readiness. | | $1,500.00 |
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| Lida's Daycare | | Family Library Project where a parent and child checks out a backpack of books, puppets, developmental toys, musical instruments and feedback sheets to bring back to DayCare. We culminate in childcare and celebrate a literacy party to review with storyboard activities, songs, puppets and BIG BOOKS. | | $1,500.00 |
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| Liling Liao | | 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. | | $1,500.00 |
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| Lincoln Elementary School | | 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. | | $3,000.00 |
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| Lisa Romano's Family ChildCare | | To promote early literacy, this project will create a lending library. | | $1,500.00 |
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| Mama Bears Playcare | | 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 fo 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. | | $1,500.00 |
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| Martinez Adult Education | | 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.' | | $3,000.00
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| Mt. Diablo Adult Education | | 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. | | $3,000.00
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| Mt. Diablo Region YMCA | | Four Week Multi-Culutral Literacy Project with parent kick-off and celebration events; lending library for focused reading projects; for the four week event; held at five YMCA child care locations throughout greater Contra Costa County service area. | | $3,000.00 |
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| Northern California Family Center | | 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. | | $3,000.00 |
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| Phoebe's Family Childcare | | 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. I think the opportunity to read is the most important gift i can give them. | | $1,500.00 |
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| Pittsburg Adult Education Center | | To promote early literacy, this project provides five family literacy events. Preschoolers and paretns 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. | | $3,000.00 |
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| Point Richmond Association of Moms | | There are two goals of this project: 1. To establish and exchange library in our local community fieldhouse in order to increase literacy and 2. To conduct a series of lectures on literacy in order to facilitate family literacy knowledge and activities. | | $3,000.00 |
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