The Children’s Literacy Foundation Community Literacy Grant provides inspiring literacy activities, support, and new, high-quality books to children in under-resourced communities who are at risk of growing up with low literacy skills.
Donor Name: Children’s Literacy Foundation
State: New Hampshire, Vermont
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/16/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Activities and Support
- At each Community Literacy grant-sponsored event, a CLiF presenter talks with children about the joys of reading and gives a fun and interactive storytelling presentation. After the presentation, each child chooses two brand-new books to keep.
- CLiF provide an onsite library to each organization so children have even more access to high-quality books. They also offer a parent/caregiver seminar sharing the importance of reading with children and modeling storytelling strategies to support caregivers who may not have strong literacy skills or may not be fluent English speakers.
The partnering organizations include:
- Shelters and affordable housing sites: These organizations serve children who often lack access to books in their daily lives. They also provide parent/caregiver seminars to describe ways to make reading aloud with children easy and fun, even if the adults aren’t strong readers themselves.
- Out-of-school time programs: Including afterschool programs and other programs serving school-age youth during the out-of-school time hours.
- Childcare centers and preschools: Head Start programs, preschools, and childcare programs who work with the target population are eligible to apply.
- Community centers and service providers: They work with organizations that support low-income families, foster children, teenage parents, refugees, and other under-resourced populations.
- Camp Exclamation Point (CAMP!): They serve children of migrant workers in New Hampshire and Vermont through the partnership with this nonprofit institution that offers a free, weeklong camp for 110 children of local migrant families.
- ELL classrooms and refugee programs: Children of refugees who have relocated to New Hampshire and Vermont often face challenges in reading English. The program in ELL classrooms supports refugees and their parents and increases English-language books in the home.
Eligibility Criteria
An organization, program, or facility must meet these requirements to apply for CLiF’s Community Literacy Grant:
- Be a social service provider, school-based program, or community organization in Vermont or New Hampshire
- Serve children from birth to age 12 (or within that range)
- At least 35% of the children served must qualify for free or reduced lunch, reduced program tuition, or a scholarship
- Be able to gather at least 30 children for a storytelling event (events may be virtual or outdoors)
Examples of eligible school-based programs: ELL classrooms, afterschool programs, extracurricular programs. Educators cannot apply for this grant on behalf of their entire school.
For more information, visit CLiF.
