Project Description Country: USA Location: Jackson, Wyoming Total Budget: $4,500 Area of Focus: Basic education and literacy Activity Type: Education: Literacy Summary: Providing 700 middle schoolers with a book of choice to promote reading and literacy. Literacy is a critical tool to support education and overall life goals for children and adults. Many programs exist in communities for pre-k and early school-aged children; providing books, especially for these age groups, is vital to literacy goals. However, in middle school, often those programs are over, and reading is confined by school assignments or one's ability or family's ability to go to the nearest public library. For many years, the Rotary Club of JH had a program that provided each second grader with a book in our community. After several discussions with the school district and literacy nonprofits in town, we have found that middle schoolers, grades 6, 7 and 8, are in the most need of books. Further research has also led our Club to discover that instead of purchasing one book for 700 students, we want to empower them to select their own book. By allowing middle schoolers to select their book, we are enabling them to have the ability to choose a book that inspires them and mirrors their own life experience. By choosing their book, studies have shown that children will read more, enjoy reading, and become better writers through their readings. Trusting students to select their books allows each person to have ownership over their reading, providing motivation and encouragement that they choose what inspires and captivates them. In a digital age that grows every year, with teenagers especially spending more time on phones and devices, instilling a love for reading is critical. Our project would provide 700 books to our Teton County middle school students in February 2024, and we will work with our local Fund for Public Education to distribute vouchers for books and set up "book fairs" where children can purchase books. Club members will be involved through fundraising for this project to reach our Club goal of $4,000 and through assisting our school district with implementation. Club members will also work with clubs at the middle school to design 3-4 bookmarks that will be provided to students with their books. These bookmarks will have a bottom banner for Rotary along with the student's designs. Showing our community supports each student is essential to our goal of inspiring readers and letting them know their community is behind them and wants them to succeed. Project Contact Person District: 5440 Rotary Club of: Jackson Hole Primary Contact: Jessica Jaubert Email: jessicajaubert@gmail.com Project Status Paid This project is "Paid". This means that the funds from the district have been issued. This project is now being ready for implementation. When this is done, a report needs to be uploaded on the project page and the "Reported" button needs to be clicked, then the status of the project will be changed to "Reported". Project listed for the 2023-24 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Jackson Hole (5440) 12-Dec-23 $3,000 $1,500 $4,500 Total $3,000 $1,500 $4,500

Project Supporting Documents Alphabetical with icons By date with icons Alphabetical list format By date list format [15-Jan-24] JH Middle School Book Budget

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History Log Entries 29-Sep-23 by Jessica Jaubert System Entry: Creation of project page. 10-Oct-23 by Jessica Jaubert System Entry: Project sent for club signatures. 10-Oct-23 by Jessica Jaubert System Entry: Project signed by Jessica Jaubert. 10-Oct-23 System Entry System Entry: Project signed by Tom Bruno. 16-Oct-23 by Randall J Looper Jessica, We will have 2nd round District grants but are only offering $1,000 DDF to clubs that have not yet received a grant. Your club has not yet received a grant but you would need to reduce the DDF to $1,000. Also your club President would need to complete the grant qualifying questions and sign an MOU. If your club President would go to the following link and click on "Club Qualification" about half way down they can find the questions they need to answer. https://www.rotary5440.org/page/district-amp-global-grants Once I receive the answers I can send them the MOU to sign. Please email me if you have any questions at elkruninn@yahoo.com Randy Looper 12-Dec-23 by Jessica Jaubert Supporting Literacy in JH An update on the fundraising efforts is the Rotary Club of JH has pledged $1,000 to this project to match the District Governor's Grant, with the Rotary Club of JH Foundation Board also matching $1,000. We have locally worked with the Fund for Public Education to match this combined effort at $3,000. I am working on fundraising the remaining $1,000, of which I already have $300 in pledges, and I look forward to the success of this project in spring 2024. 12-Dec-23 by Randall J Looper Jessica, I have cancelled the signature process so you can change the financing to $1,000 DDF. Once you have changed the financing please start the signature process again with just you and your current club President. Also your president still needs to do the qualification traning I discussed in an earlier history log. Randy 12-Dec-23 by Randall J Looper System Entry: Signature Process cancelled by user. 12-Dec-23 by Jessica Jaubert System Entry: Project reverted to "Published". 12-Dec-23 by Jessica Jaubert System Entry: Pledge of $2,000 with $1,000 DDF by Jessica Jaubert of the Rotary Club of Jackson Hole, District 5440. 12-Jan-24 by Jessica Jaubert System Entry: Project is now "Fully Pledged". 15-Jan-24 by Jessica Jaubert System Entry: Project sent for club signatures. 15-Jan-24 by Jessica Jaubert System Entry: Project signed by Jessica Jaubert. 15-Jan-24 System Entry System Entry: Project signed by Tom Bruno. 31-Jan-24 by Randall J Looper System Entry: Project approved by the District Approval Committee. 31-Jan-24 by Randall J Looper System Entry: Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer.