Project Description Country: USA Location: Glendale Total Budget: $4,000 Area of Focus: Basic education and literacy Activity Type: Education: Literacy Summary: Purchase and distribute 1200 dictionaries to every 3rd grader in the Glendale Elementary School District to promote literacy in our community. Project beneficiaries are approximately 1200 3rd graders in the Glendale Elementary School District, the vast majority of whom qualify for free or reduced school lunch given their socioeconomic status. Dictionaries promote literacy and are needed as determined through a needs assessment survey of 3rd grade teachers from the Glendale Elementary School District. The students receiving the dictionaries use them throughout their elementary and secondary education and take them home for personal use. Third grade is critical for reading and writing literacy to ensure the students can continue to read/write at grade-level and complete education requirements to matriculate and graduate on time to become successful citizens in our community. Project start date: 9/1/21 Project end date: 12/15/21 Club members will work with a Glendale Elementary School District Principal to purchase, label, and distribute approximately 1200 dictionaries at the 12 school campuses to reach every 3rd grader. The label has our Club name and the Rotary 4-way test on it and will be affixed to every dictionary distributed to highlight Rotary's contribution to this project. All Club members will contribute by labeling and distributing the dictionaries. Members from other Rotary Clubs may be asked to help as a volunteer and community service opportunity. Project Contact Person District: 5495 Rotary Club of: Valley of the Sun Passport Primary Contact: John Burk Email: johnburk228@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 2021-22 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Valley of the Sun Passport (5495) 29-May-21 $1,500 $2,500 $4,000 Total $1,500 $2,500 $4,000

Project Supporting Documents Alphabetical with icons By date with icons Alphabetical list format By date list format [6-Mar-22] Dictionary labels paid invoice [6-Mar-22] Dictionary Project paid invoice [6-Mar-22] District Grant Report

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History Log Entries 29-May-21 by Rebecca Wilks Project review: (1) I have added your president elect to the signature list. Please be sure the name and address are correct. (2) please submit the club's MOU, which is required for a completed application. 29-May-21 System Entry System Entry: Creation of project page. 29-May-21 by Rebecca Wilks System Entry: Project sent for club signatures. 29-May-21 System Entry System Entry: Project signed by Rebecca Wilks. 30-May-21 System Entry System Entry: Project signed by John Burk. 1-Jun-21 System Entry System Entry: Project signed by Ali Callahan. 19-Jun-21 by Rebecca Wilks Congratulations. Your application has been approved. There was not enough DDF to fully fund all projects. You've been awarded $2050. We hope your club will be able to fund the remainder of the project in another way. 19-Jun-21 by Rebecca Wilks System Entry: Project approved by the District Approval Committee. 3-Aug-21 by Rebecca Wilks I'm so sorry for the inconvenience, but (though the "block" district grant has been approved) The Rotary Foundation has not yet released the funds. It's frustrating when things like this are out of our hands, but we hope to be sending money to the clubs very soon. Thanks for your patience. 29-Aug-21 by Rebecca Wilks District Grant funds are available. To avoid further delay, please email a scanned or photographed voided check (on the account you'd like to funds transferred to) to District Treasurer Rex Townsend, rext5495@gmail.com 9-Sep-21 by Rebecca Wilks System Entry: Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer. 6-Mar-22 by John Burk System Entry: Project has been implemented and final report uploaded. 7-Mar-22 by Rebecca Wilks System Entry: Final report approved by the District Approval Committee.