Project Description Country: USA Location: Wyoming Total Budget: $9,000 Area of Focus: Basic education and literacy Activity Type: Education: Literacy Summary: Raising Readers in Wyoming encourages parents to read to their children by providing new books as part of their well child health care visits to build a lifetime of literacy. This grant will be used for the purchase of books, marketing, and advocacy of the Raising Readers program in Laramie County. The books are purchased by the program at cost (approximately $2.00 per book). $80,000 is needed each year to serve Laramie County alone which currently is only enough to serve about half of the population between the ages of 2 months to 5 years. The books are distributed by healthcare providers who 'prescribe' age appropriate books (for children between the ages of 2 months up to 5 years) for the parents or guardians to read for at least 15 minutes each day. Well child health visits are the doctor's chance to stress the importance of reading aloud and the effect it has on brain development for each child, as well as provide key suggestions to parents on how to read with their child. For nearly 8 years, Cheyenne Community Rotaract (sponsored by the Rotary Club of Cheyenne) and some Rotarians from the Rotary Club of Cheyenne have supported the program by receiving, sorting, and distributing the books to providers across Laramie County.This grant will expand Rotary's partnership with the program and increase local Rotarian involvement. We expect 25 Rotarians to be hands-on involved in this project. Furthermore, it is a goal of the grant to expand the number of healthcare providers participating in the program and reach other populations across Laramie County that typically don't go to clinics. Link to Raising Readers in Wyoming: http://raisingreadersinwyoming.org/ Project Contact Person District: 5440 Rotary Club of: Cheyenne Primary Contact: Lori Garrison Email: lorimillin@gmail.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 2023-24 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Cheyenne (5440) 11-Jun-23 $5,000 $4,000 $9,000 Total $5,000 $4,000 $9,000

Project Supporting Documents Alphabetical with icons By date with icons Alphabetical list format By date list format [22-Jun-23] Budget [22-Jun-23] Budget [22-Jun-23] Budget [12-Jun-24] Check to Raising Readers in WY for $9,000 [12-Jun-24] Check to Raising Readers in WY for $9,000 [29-Oct-24] Raising Readers District Grant Final Report Form [19-May-24] Receipt for Bookmarks [12-Jun-24] Where books are delivered in WY

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History Log Entries 11-Jun-23 by Lori Garrison System Entry: Creation of project page. 12-Jun-23 by Lori Garrison System Entry: Project reverted to "Published". 13-Jun-23 by Lori Garrison System Entry: Pledge of $5,000 by Lori Garrison of the Rotary Club of Cheyenne, District 5440. 13-Jun-23 by Lori Garrison System Entry: Project is now "Fully Pledged". 21-Jun-23 by Randall Looper Lori, You still need to upload a detailed budget of income & expenses to the documents area. Also, you need to complete the signature process by having yourself and your PE sign it. 22-Jun-23 by Lori Garrison System Entry: Project sent for club signatures. 22-Jun-23 by Lori Garrison System Entry: Project signed by Lori Garrison. 3-Jul-23 by Randall Looper System Entry: Project approved by the District Approval Committee. 9-Aug-23 by Randall Looper System Entry: Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer. 15-Jan-24 by Randall Looper Lori, Please provide a quarterly history log update as to the status of this project. 16-Jan-24 by Lori Garrison A large book order was made. Books arrive in the next month. Rotarians will then sign up to make deliveries over the next few months. 8-Jun-24 by Randall Looper Lori, Please provide a quarterly history log update on this project. Thanks, Randy 12-Jun-24 by Lori Garrison Check was presented to Raising Readers in WY from our club for $9,000. Books were delivered to our club storage office in Cheyenne. Rotarians helped with the moving of books into the office. Books with Bookmarks were then prepped by Rotarians and Rotaract club members in Cheyenne. The prepped books are then delivered by club members to local physician offices and our local hospital for giving to babies and children at their Well Baby or Well Child Visits. 19-Oct-24 by Randall Looper Lori, Is this project now complete. If it is please complete the District final report and upload it along with the rest of the receipts to the documents area. If it is not complete please do a history log quarterly update. Randy 29-Oct-24 by Lori Garrison I have submitted the Raising Readers District Grant Final Report Form. All receipts are in documents and all photos have been uploaded. 29-Oct-24 by Randall Looper System Entry: Project has been implemented and final report uploaded. 29-Oct-24 by Randall Looper System Entry: Final report approved by the District Approval Committee.