The Children’s Literacy Foundation has literacy grants available

WATERBURY, Vt. — The Children’s Literacy Foundation (CLiF) has several literacy grants currently available to public libraries, schools, and organizations serving low-income, at-risk, and rural children in Vermont and New Hampshire. All grant applications are available on www.clifonline.org.

Grants currently available are:

Year of the Book

$25,000 value of literacy programming and new books to qualifying elementary schools in New Hampshire or Vermont. Eligible schools have a minimum of 35 percent of students qualifying for free/reduced lunch and at least 30% scoring below proficient on reading and writing assessments. Programming includes author visits and writing workshops, family literacy events, mini-grants for classroom projects, new books for the classrooms and the school and local public libraries, as well as ten new books for each child to choose. Applications due Jan. 30 for the 2019-2020 school year. 

Revive Your Literacy Programming

Funding available for additional literacy programming completed in the 2018-2019 school year, open to any organization that has received a CLiF grant since 2014. Applications due Feb. 1.

Community Building

Funding available to build connections between kids and their communities through a Reading with Seniors program, 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten challenge, a songwriting workshop, or the Young Writers’ Project’s My Community Story platform. Must be able to complete project in 2018-2019 school year. Applications due Feb. 6.

Rural Libraries

School year-long program awarded to public libraries in towns of 5,000 or less. Two storytelling sessions with professional authors/storytellers, new books for the public library and local elementary school library, mini-grants for new library programming, plus two new books for each child to choose. Applications due April 2 for 2019-2020 school year.

For more information about CLiF, visit www.clifonline.org.