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Books at HomeANNOUNCEMENTS ARCHIVE BOOKS AT HOME VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED THIS SUMMER! IF YOU ARE:
   NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE DAY 2006 Youth Help the Literacy Council Prepare Donated Books for Summer Distribution The Greater Hartford Literacy Council, in partnership with Our Piece of the Pie, Inc., participated again this year as a service site for National Youth Service Day, the largest service event in the world, mobilizing millions of youth to address the needs of their communities through service. This year on April 21, 2006, six youth from the Southwest Unit of the Boys & Girls Club of Hartford, Inc. helped us prepare books for distribution that were donated by a range of individuals and organizations. The youth and their supervisors sorted, counted, stamped and inserted bookmarks with the message "Reading. It takes you places." in over 2,000 new and gently used books which will be distributed to eligible member literacy providers this summer as part of our Books at Home initiative. WE THANK OUR VOLUNTEERS FOR THEIR SUPPORT AND HARD WORK!
  IHOP and First Book Team Up to Support Literacy: Books at Home to Benefit Airing at noon on WTNH News Channel 8 on February 28th, was an interview with Literacy Council Executive Director Carl Guerriere and the story from the Newington IHOP Restaurant celebrating National Pancake Day. At the national level, IHOP Restaurants and First Book joined together to support literacy across the country and celebrate National Pancake Day. Proceeds from the National Pancake Day celebration at the Newington and West Hartford IHOP Restaurants will benefit the Literacy Council's Books at Home initiative. IHOP Restaurants participated by giving away a free short stack of pancakes to everyone who visited. The Literacy Council distributed flyers about Books at Home and the need for books. Customers were asked to donate the cost of the pancakes to First Book to benefit the Greater Hartford Literacy Council's Books at Home initiative. The IHOP donations will help raise the funds we need to make First Book grants available this spring.  LITERACY COUNCIL AWARDS NINE $500 BORDERS GIFT CARDS As a result of our partnership with First Book and our publicity efforts, we recently received nine $500 Borders gift cards to allocate to member programs. Twenty-five member organizations meeting the eligibility requirements were entered into the Literacy Council's lottery for the gift cards. We congratulate the following nine programs whose names were drawn:
BCO / Bristol Head Start (Bristol)
The Literacy Council will be providing more book-giving opportunities through our spring and summer Books at Home initiatives. We are raising funds to issue an RFP for First Book grants in the spring and we expect a donation of several thousand new books from Scholastic, Inc. to distribute this summer as part of our Annual Summer Book Distribution.
Cathedral Day Care Center (Hartford) Center City Churches Center for Youth (Hartford) CREC Parent Aide Program (Hartford) Reach Out and Read CT at CCMC (Greater Hartford) Trust House Family Learning Center (Hartford) Urban League of Greater Hartford (Hartford) West Middle Elementary School (Hartford) Women's League Child Development Center (Hartford)   Hartford's Trinity Episcopal Church Supports the Literacy Council's Books at Home Initiative, An Expansion of Episcopal Church Women of Connecticut's Literacy Initiative Trinity Episcopal Church located on Sigourney Street in Hartford is pleased to announce its support of the Classroom Sponsorship program organized by the Greater Hartford Literacy Council. The sponsorship provides a book per month for an entire school year for a classroom of twenty-five children to take home and keep as their own. When Rector Donald Hamer contacted the Vice Principal of West Middle Elementary School in Hartford, just around the corner from his church, he was informed that it would be best to sponsor a whole grade level (5th) and that there were three fifth grade classrooms in the school. Trinity Episcopal Church was able to sponsor the first class through the church's Outreach Committee. The second class is being sponsored by the generous donation of a parishioner and the third class is being sponsored by the collaboration of St. John's Church in East Windsor and St. James Church in West Hartford. Each of these parishes wanted to help out with this program and joined efforts with Trinity's guidance. In addition, the Literacy Council and Trinity Church collaborated in writing a successful proposal to the White Envelope Fund of the Episcopal Church Women of Connecticut. Through this grant, $5,000 was awarded for the Books at Home Classroom Sponsorship program! These funds will be used to grant classroom sponsorships next fall to West Middle School and other schools in Hartford. Trinity Episcopal Church hopes to be able to continue sponsoring classrooms in the future. In addition to providing funds for classroom sponsorships, there will also be a small group of parishioners who will be tutoring reading to the same children in the fifth grade classes at West Middle School. What began as a project to sponsor one classroom became a project to sponsor eight classrooms! Perhaps you know of a group that could do something similar! |
