Grantees

Literacy program where children will be given books.

Support for the outreach and literacy activities of the Franklin/Grand Isle Bookmobile.

To a pilot program for a bookmobile in the Brattleboro area.

Bookmobile provides literacy services to the young children, bith to 14 of Burke, East Haven, Lyndon, Newark, Sheffield, Sutton and Wheelock.

The Extended Day Program Literacy Project seeks to provide literacy opportunities every day and increase the enthusiasm for literacy while improving skill level across the grades. This will be achieved through training, games that build literacy into the day, homework practice and tracking and student partnerships.

Shire Kids is spearheading the effort to increase early childhood literacy by expanding availability of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library to all children from birth to five in Southern Vermont. The Imagination Library is a book-gifting program that mails a high-quality, age-appropriate book to enrolled children every month until the child's fifth birthday. By empowering young Vermonters with the earliest tools of literacy, books, we are establishing a lifelong love of reading a learning. After serving over 1,500 children Bennington County for the last two years, Shire Kids is expanding. On January 1st, 2020, Shire Kids began enrollment in nine additional towns in Windham and Windsor Counties and we plan to keep growing.

The Early Learning Express (ELE) bookmobile visits early care and education centers, afterschool programs, and low-income communities in our region. It is uniquely effective outreach to early care and education providers in isolated rural areas. These programs often lack the ability to access local libraries or other resources to provide program enrichment to the children they serve. The ELE has always included books, songs, stories and interactive learning. Recently we expanded our programs to include more arts exposure. Art is a great vehicle to introduce young children to literacy, math and science concepts while their brains are still developing. Thus, the bookmobile is a portal to learning through music, puppetry and other forms art.

A literacy program for the very young children at Neshobee Children's Center.