The Year of the Book is CLiF’s flagship grant program designed to support literacy at schools across Vermont and New Hampshire.
Donor Name: Children’s Literacy Foundation
State: New Hampshire, Vermont
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/17/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
CLiF’s Year of the Book provides $25,000 worth of literacy programs, support, and new children’s books over one school year to help build a culture of literacy in schools across New Hampshire and Vermont. This program targets schools that have a high percentage of students receiving free/reduced lunch and students scoring below proficient in literacy assessments.
Goals of Year of the Book
- Supplement elementary schools’ existing efforts to create a pro-literacy culture in the school community
- Encourage enthusiasm for books among students from preschool to grade 6
- Inspire students to read and write for pleasure
- Support educators’ literacy curricula and creative integration of literacy into all areas of study
- Ensure all children have a collection of high-quality books of their own at home
- Get parents/caregivers more involved in their children’s literacy activities and encourage more reading at home.
Eligibility Criteria
Public schools located in New Hampshire or Vermont with:
- At least 35% of students qualifying for free/reduced lunch.
- At least 30% of students scoring below proficient on reading and writing assessments.
- Students in grades preK-6
- Middle schools can apply for grades 5-6
- An enthusiastic and organized school-based individual to serve as the grant coordinator (or co-coordinators) and to collaborate with CLiF on planning, organizing, and scheduling Year of the Book events. CLiF will offer the coordinator a stipend of $800 for the year for their efforts (co-coordinators will split it).
- CLiF will partner with schools of all sizes, but CLiF programming has the greatest positive impact when it serves no more than 250 students. CLiF will ask schools with over 250 students which grades they will choose to serve. The children served by the grant should represent more than 50% of the K-6 student body.
- CLiF offers a “small school grant” to schools with 75 or fewer students (preK-6). This grant provides similar supports but on a reduced scale. You still need to fill out this application to be considered.
For more information, visit Children’s Literacy Foundation.
