Project Description Country: USA Location: Craig, CO Total Budget: $6,000 Area of Focus: Basic education and literacy Activity Type: Education: Literacy Summary: The Craig Rotary club is going to provide all K - 5 students in the MCSD with a bag containing books and games/puzzles. The summer slide is a big problem in all school districts but has become even more noticable than ever before in the Moffat county school District. According to the MCSD administration students from low income families average losing three - four months of reading proficiency every summer while middle - upper class students gain a month. This creates a four month gap. By the time students are in 6th grade low income students have lost as much as two years of reading proficiency in comperison to their higher income piers. More the 80% of the rich/poor gap occurs during the summer when school is not in session. Yet low income children gain as much reading growth during the school year as middle/upper class children. Numerous studies have shown that providing books to students to read over the summer greatly reduces the summer literacy slide. We propose to provide all K- 5 students in the Moffat county school district with books at the end of the year. We will have the books along with puzzles/games in a bag with Presented by Craig Rotary on the front. We will do this at assemblies in all four elementry schools during the last week of the school year. This will provide lower income students with books of their own that they would not have otherwise. It will help all students with the summer literacy slide but will have the most effect on students that normally do not have books of their own in their home. Project Contact Person District: 5440 Rotary Club of: Craig (Moffat County) Primary Contact: Randall Looper Email: elkruninn@yahoo.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 2017-18 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Craig (Moffat County) (5440) 26-Nov-17 $2,840 $3,160 $6,000 Total $2,840 $3,160 $6,000

Project Supporting Documents Alphabetical with icons By date with icons Alphabetical list format By date list format [26-Nov-17] Craig Rotary Book Bag [2-Dec-17] Craig Rotary summer book bag [12-Jun-18] Final Report [30-May-18] Summer Book [12-Jun-18] Summer Book receipts

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History Log Entries 26-Nov-17 by Randall Looper System Entry: Creation of project page. 26-Nov-17 by Randall Looper System Entry: Project sent for club signatures. 26-Nov-17 by Randall Looper System Entry: Project signed by Randall J Looper. 26-Nov-17 System Entry System Entry: Project signed by Len Browning. 28-Nov-17 System Entry System Entry: Project signed by Lief Albaugh. 2-Dec-17 by Randall Looper The District has divided its reaining funds equally among all the projectsthat have completed applications. Therefore your project will recieve $3160 of the $4,000 that was requested. I have cancelled your signatures so you can adjust the financing and budget as needed. Once you have made those changes please redo the signature process so the project can be approved. 2-Dec-17 by Randall Looper System Entry: Signature Process cancelled by user. 4-Dec-17 by Randall Looper System Entry: Project sent for club signatures. 4-Dec-17 System Entry System Entry: Project signed by Len Browning. 4-Dec-17 by Randall Looper System Entry: Project signed by Randall J Looper. 6-Dec-17 System Entry System Entry: Project signed by Lief Albaugh. 8-Dec-17 by Jim Epstein System Entry: Project approved by the District Approval Committee. 26-Dec-17 by Bill Kehl System Entry: Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer. 11-Apr-18 by Randall Looper We are ordering backpacks, books and games to be distributed to K - 3rd graders in mid May. 11-Apr-18 by Randall Looper System Entry: Project has been implemented and final report uploaded. 26-Jun-18 by Randall Looper System Entry: Final report approved by the District Approval Committee.