Let's Read Fund Grants Fund Family Literacy Programs as School and Nonprofits' Budgets Shrink

May 27, 2009. Eleven organizations will share $31,000 in grants awarded by the Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut's Let's Read Fund to continue its emphasis on helping kids gain better reading and writing skills. Over the last seven years, the Foundation has given out $323,000 for literacy-centric efforts focused on parent education, school readiness, tutoring, professional development for teachers, and book ownership, as well as after-school and summer programs.

Directed to at eight towns within the Foundation's 11-town service area these programs target, or include special outreach to, either underserved or underperforming students.