Project Description Country: USA Location: Verde Valley, AZ Total Budget: $2,500 Area of Focus: Basic education and literacy Activity Type: Education: Literacy Summary: Install Little Free Libraries in the Verde Valley communities partnering with the Mingus Interact Club This is a 2nd priority grant for the Rotary Club of the Verde Valley, in partnership with the Mingus Union High School Interact Club. Little Free Libraries is a non-profit organization that expands access to books through a global network of volunteer-led little libraries. The organization helps volunteer stewards start and maintain Little Free Library book exchanges through the online store with library models and kits, access to free or discounted books, and a world map of registered Little Free Libraries. Rotary of the Verde Valley and the Mingus Union High School Interact Club have already partnered to purchase 5 library kits and posts to place at 5 schools in Cottonwood and Cornville and have a goal of placing at least 4 more in areas served by Rotary- Rimrock, Jerome, Camp Verde, and Clarkdale. The Little Free Library was started by a Rotarian from Wisconsin in 2012 and was highlighted in the May issue of the Rotarian magazine. The beneficiaries would be communities in the Verde Valley where public libraries may not be present and school libraries are closed through the summer. Rural areas can be "book deserts" and Little Free Libraries can become a community-building and literacy-building point of convergence for far-flung and underserved populations of adults and children who love to read. We have a donation box in place at the Foothills Bank in Cottonwood, and we plan to reach out to other community organizations to collect books. Rotarians and Interactors are collecting books. The users will also "take a book and leave a book". This project will be sustainable for many years with Rotarians and Interactors assisting in maintaining the Little Libraries and keeping them filled with books. The budget for 4 additional libraries is approximately $2,500; see details in Finance section. Project Contact Person District: 5495 Rotary Club of: Verde Valley (Cottonwood) Primary Contact: Lynette Prouty Email: rlprouty32@gmail.com Project Status Dropped This project has been "Dropped". Check the history log entries to see why it was dropped. Project listed for the 2021-22 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Verde Valley (Cottonwood) (5495) 21-May-21 $1,250 $1,250 $2,500 Total $1,250 $1,250 $2,500 DDF contributions in grey are pending approval of the corresponding district committee.

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History Log Entries 21-May-21 System Entry System Entry: Creation of project page. 24-May-21 by Rebecca Wilks Initial review: your application is complete. Thank you. 24-May-21 by Rebecca Wilks System Entry: Project sent for club signatures. 24-May-21 by Rebecca Wilks System Entry: Project signed by Rebecca Wilks. 24-May-21 System Entry System Entry: Project signed by Lynette Prouty. 19-Jun-21 by Rebecca Wilks Thanks so much for submitting this District Grant application. Unfortunately, available DDF is insufficient to fund any club's second request this year. We hope this project can go forward with other funding. 2-Sep-21 by Lynette Prouty We will be dropping this project. This was a secondary project and the money was not available from the district grants. We will do this project along with our Interact Club on our own. 2-Sep-21 by Rebecca Wilks In order to cut down on the annoying automatic emails, I'll be "dropping" this project from the website in about a week. If you need to copy any information from your application, please do that ASAP, as it will all disappear. 8-Sep-21 by Rebecca Wilks System Entry: Project dropped by Rebecca Wilks. Reason for dropping: Project not approved