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Danbury ad hoc committee recommends applying for $5,000 Dollar General youth literacy grant
Summary
An ad hoc Danbury City committee moved to recommend the city council apply for and accept a $5,000 Dollar General Literacy Foundation youth literacy grant. Library staff said funds would buy laptops and materials and support K–2 instruction plus parent workshops in Spanish and other languages.
Councilwoman Holly Robinson, chair of the ad hoc committee, said the group would consider a $5,000 youth literacy grant from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and confirmed no city match was required.
Julia Denon, identified in the meeting as the library’s innovation sustainability librarian and the grant writer, said the award would fund a two-part program: direct literacy instruction for kindergarten through second-grade children and workshops for parents (including sessions in Spanish and other languages) to…
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