2012 Annual Report - Community Foundation of Monroe County

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Imagination Library The Community Foundation of Monroe County and the Dollywood Foundation along with the Intermediate School District (ISD) have launched the Monroe County Imagination Library to provide an amazing FREE book program to preschoolers throughout the entire county. This program provides an age-appropriate, hardback book each month directly to the child’s home from ages birth to their fifth birthday completely FREE OF CHARGE. We currently send 950 books to children each month. The Community Foundation serves as the local champion, responsible for funding, regional launch, and overall coordination of the program. The ISD will be responsible for outcome performance study and testing while the Dollywood Foundation will manage the book and mailing system and provide technical support. Reading to and with children from birth on is a keystone to developing early literacy skills. It is important that parents develop a strong literacy environment for their children from the first days of like. Children begin the process of learning to read long before they enter formal schooling (Sonnerschein, Brody and Munsterman, 19976). The parent role in the child’s acquisition of pre-reading or pre-literacy skills is very important. Research and anecdotal records indicates that reading to young children, telling stories, and simply the amount of discourse (Hart and Risely, 1995) in the home helps them become better readers.
“Whenever I and my child (Calvin) receive a book from you, we are so excited. Calvin loves to hear different stories every night. He makes a deal every night with me; he is trying to get me to read him as many books as possible. Our night time starts with a common question, “How many books?” I sometimes say, “Mommy is tired, so I will read you one book tonight.” Then Calvin says, “how about two?” ...this is our night ritual. Sometimes I end up reading him five books. As you can see, Calvin loves to pick out his books each night. If you see his face while he is picking out his books, you can see many dreams and positive future. Thank you, for all you have done and are doing for the community. Calvin cherishes each book he receives. His favorite book is “the little train that could” and the story about a pig who tricked a wolf to do his favors. Thank you!!” Sincerely, Suyoung Billmaier Our pre-jazz festival fundraiser, “Rollin on the River”. “My son loves getting books from the Imagination Library every month. We read books every night and he often chooses the books he’s received from this wonderful program. He learned his colors through Dolly Parton’s Rainbow book. Thank you for this wonderful program! “ Heather Tross “This program was very nice as it did encourage both kids to read, or have others read to them. They would be excited when the books arrived, and have a small library now of these wonderful books that we will pass on to other children when they have outgrown them. The oldest who is now in Kindergarten was the one who would like to tell her version after we read it to her, and the 2 year old enjoys being read to. Thank you and thank the foundation that provided this opportunity.” Marv Hicks Thanks to our sponsors: Advance Staffing Solutions By Design Dansard-Little DTE Energy KeyBank La-Z-Boy Jill LaVoy Mercy Memorial Hospital System Monroe Bank and Trust Monroe County Community College Monroe Dodge Monroe Publishing Robinson Curphey & O’Connell RiverBank Wealth Management Thanks to the Event Committee: Stacey Bigelow Jeanine Bragg Jean Castigalone Mark Copping Molly Luempert-Coy Gretchen Eyler Barbara Harrington Shelly Hehl Diane Kamprath Karen Lemerand Henry Lievens Carla Miller Betzy Pipis Doug Redding Brad Schreiber Jane Wells
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2012 Annual Report - Community Foundation of Monroe County

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