Project Description Country: USA Location: Blythe, CA Total Budget: $4,000 Area of Focus: Basic education and literacy Activity Type: Education: Literacy Summary: Popular and Current books to stimulate reading amongst large Mexican-American youngsters Palo Verde Unified School libraries are in need of donations to purchase needed reading materials. Palo Verde Unified School District currently enrolls approximately 3,700 K-12 students in seven schools, of those schools six have libraries that are well-attended by Blythe students. The students served by these libraries are over 65% socio-economically disadvantaged. In addition, a significant portion of our student population at each of the schools is classified as English Learner. Budget constraints over the past years provided no funds for non-essential books. The only funds available were categorical funds which can only be used for purchase of required student textbooks. To stimulate reading, we hope to provide young and young adult fiction books. The Palo Verde Unified School District libraries will house these books. Addendum to Project Description (added after the project was signed) Project completed in June 2014; 63 Hardback Fiction books; distributed equitably among our three elementary schools in Blythe, CA. A label was put into each book's front cover that identifies the donor being the RC of Blythe and The Four-Way Test. Project Contact Person District: 5340 Rotary Club of: Blythe Primary Contact: Wayne Cusick Email: mrgoodgas@aol.com Project Status Completed This project is "Completed". This means the project has been implemented and the report was accepted by the district leadership. The project will stay listed on this website as a testimony of the achievements of the project partners. Project listed for the 2013-14 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Blythe (5340) 23-Jul-13 $2,000 $2,000 $4,000 Total $2,000 $2,000 $4,000

Project Supporting Documents Alphabetical with icons By date with icons Alphabetical list format By date list format [17-Jun-14] Literacy Through Reading P-350 [25-Jun-14] Receipt for bookplates [25-Jun-14] Receipt for literacy books

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History Log Entries 23-Jul-13 System Entry Creation of project page. 24-Jul-13 System Entry Project reverted to "Published". 24-Jul-13 System Entry Project is now "Fully Pledged". 30-Jul-13 System Entry Project sent for club signatures. 31-Jul-13 System Entry Project signed by Wayne Cusick. 31-Jul-13 System Entry Project signed by David Kehl. 4-Aug-13 System Entry Project signed by Sylvana Meeks. 13-Aug-13 System Entry Project approved by the District Approval Committee. 11-Nov-13 System Entry Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer. 3-Apr-14 by Marge Cole Club is reminded that the Final Report and all financial documents were due on April 1, 2014. They must all be uploaded on the grant website in PDF format. Once this is done, click on "Reported" to trigger a review of the grant for "Completion" status. 17-Jun-14 System Entry Project has been implemented and final report uploaded. 17-Jun-14 System Entry Project has been implemented and final report uploaded. 25-Jun-14 System Entry Final report approved by the District Approval Committee.