Project Description Country: USA Location: Elmore County, Idaho Total Budget: $2,700 Areas of Focus: Basic education and literacy, Economic and community development Activity Type: Education: General Summary: Develop and maintain school supply closets in 8 schools Approximately 60% of the students in the Mountain Home, Glenns Ferry and Bruneau School Districts live below the poverty level. Children arrive at school lacking the basic school supplies and often inadequate clothing. Teachers often dip into their own wallets to provide for these children and understand that children without the basic necessities struggle to succeed in the school environment. We propose to establish and maintain school supply closets in 8 schools that teachers can access for these children. The supplies will include not only paper and pens but underwear, socks, shirts, and basic hygiene items. The club members will work directly with the schools to supply these closets and will purchase the items requested. We will have the closets established in time to the 2015-16 school year and will resupply the closets throughout the academic year. Addendum to Project Description (added after the project was signed) We have a Rotarian who will spearhead the project for the club. Contract with the schools will occur in early August prior to the kids returning to school. We have our portion of the funding allocated in our budget. Project Contact Person District: 5400 Rotary Club of: Elmore County Primary Contact: Nancy Thompson Email: nmft@mac.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 2015-16 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Elmore County (5400) 7-Apr-15 $700 $2,000 $2,700 Total $700 $2,000 $2,700

Project Supporting Documents Alphabetical with icons By date with icons Alphabetical list format By date list format [5-Oct-16] Receipts [16-Dec-15] Chk# 2010 [5-Oct-16] Expense Spreadsheet [6-May-16] Firefly Computers Receipt [5-Oct-16] Revised Final Report

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History Log Entries 7-Apr-15 System Entry Creation of project page. 13-Apr-15 System Entry Project sent for club signatures. 13-Apr-15 System Entry Project signed by Nancy Thompson. 13-Apr-15 System Entry Project signed by Greg Berry. 2-Jul-15 by Nancy Thompson We have a club member who will be coordinating with the schools- we are waiting to hear if our grant request has been approved before proceeding as if it is not approved we will have to downsize the project and number of schools we can assist 17-Jul-15 by Marianne Barker Your grant application for school supplies & clothing has been approved for the total amount of DDF requested, $2000. Please confirm via history log at matchinggrants.org that you intend to proceed with the project as submitted to initiate the funding process. If you anticipate a reduction in the total budget, please cancel signature process (description tab – admin.) and adjust your financing to reflect revisions, and then send again for signatures. Changes will be reviewed by the district for final notification of grant award. As soon as you confirm or change your project as directed above, you may begin to incur expense. If you have questions or need help, call Cari Kaster at (208) 539-1519 17-Jul-15 by Nancy Thompson Grant approved will proceed with project as submitted 17-Jul-15 System Entry Project approved by the District Approval Committee. 25-Aug-15 System Entry Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer. 2-Mar-16 by Nancy Thompson We have spent $2109 so far on school supplies, needed clothing, and chrome books for the technology departments. All of the items bought were specifically requested by the teachers for their needy children. This provided supplies to 5 elementary schools, two middle schools and three high schools in three different school districts. We have plans to spend the remaining money in the next two months filling requests. 3-May-16 System Entry Project has been implemented and final report uploaded. 16-Jul-16 by Nancy Thompson Project completed. Final report filed. Assistance received from MaryAnn B 2-Oct-16 by Nancy Thompson We have been in touch with the schools and will be focusing our initial efforts on a school for at risk teens in Mountain Home. The teachers have requested a food pantry for these students so we are working at sending non perishable food items to a modified food locker . We will then contact the other schools to get supplies to them 16-Dec-16 by Nancy Thompson We are providing a food pantry for the high school with vulnerable students. We will be filling the requests of the teachers after the holiday break per their request 5-Jan-17 by Jedd Thomas The reports and supporting information have been audited as of this date. As approval to amend the use of funds in this project to include electronic notebook teaching tools has been granted, documentation is sufficient to allow for the grant file to be closed. 11-Jan-17 by Marianne Barker System Entry: Final report approved by the District Approval Committee.