Project Description Country: USA Location: Corinth, TX Total Budget: $9,400 Area of Focus: Basic education and literacy Activity Type: Education: Literacy Summary: Provide a dictionary to every public school third grader in the Denton, Lake Dallas and Sanger Independent School Districts There are three school districts who will be included in this project, totaling over 30 elementary schools. Each school's third graders will receive a dictionary by Christmas break for their skill learning which usually occurs in the second semester of school. The teachers look forward to the distribution day and the students, upon receiving their books are excited to have a book to call their own. 1) ISDs need dictionaries for each of their third grade students by start of the January school start for second semester, an estimated total of 3000 dictionaries. 2) Denton Lakes Cities Rotary will contact each school to get more exact numbers of student population and then will coordinate with each elementary school principal. Time frame to meet with each school's third graders to present the dictionaries will occur from October through December. If any are missed those will be taken care of in January. Project completion will be by February 15, 2022. Project paperwork completion will be projected by end of March 2022 to get all pictures and receipts organized to be uploaded for grant completion. 3) Funds will be used to purchase dictionaries and labels to go in each dictionary. The label includes the RI wheel as well as the four-way test and a place for each student to print their name. 4) This is an "all club" project that requires over 90% participation in presenting and distributing each book to each student to truly be successful. It also includes a local Denton business to store the cases of dictionaries and insert a label in each dictionary. A sign up sheet is circulated at the club meetings in September and each club member is asked to sign up for at least one school. The first person signed up is asked to set up their school's day for distribution, where the others signed up will attend and take about 30-45 minutes to talk to the students about the dictionaries, and use the four-way test to look up words. In the past, each school's third grades meet in a common area (like the cafeteria) where all the students get their books at once. Project Contact Person District: 5790 Rotary Club of: Denton-Lake Cities Primary Contact: David Martin Email: dsmartin673@gmail.com Project Status Completed This project is "Completed". This means the project has been implemented and the report was accepted by the district leadership. The project will stay listed on this website as a testimony of the achievements of the project partners. Project listed for the 2022-23 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Denton-Lake Cities (5790) 17-Aug-22 $4,900 $4,500 $9,400 Total $4,900 $4,500 $9,400

Project Supporting Documents Alphabetical with icons By date with icons Alphabetical list format By date list format [28-Aug-22] 2020 IRS 990 efile 5-12-2022 [24-Aug-22] 2022 Dictionary Grant MOU [24-Aug-22] 2022-2023 Goals [25-May-23] Bank Statement [25-May-23] Final Report [25-May-23] Invoice [25-May-23] Payment Check #2002

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History Log Entries 17-Aug-22 by David Martin System Entry: Creation of project page. 22-Aug-22 by Dusty Babitzke Before your grant will be considered, you must upload a copy of the Club Goals from Rotary Club Central, a fully executed MOU agreement with all necessary signatures, and a copy of your IRS 990 tax form for either tax year 2020 or 2021 31-Aug-22 by Dusty Babitzke System Entry: Project sent for club signatures. 31-Aug-22 by Dusty Babitzke System Entry: Project signed by Dusty Babitzke. 1-Sep-22 by David Martin System Entry: Project signed by David Martin. 9-Sep-22 by Dusty Babitzke Your grant has been approved, please send an e-mail to dustybabitzke@yahoo.com to request funding. 16-Nov-22 by Dusty Babitzke in process 4-Jan-23 by Sharron Miles System Entry: Project approved by the District Approval Committee. 4-Jan-23 by Dusty Babitzke System Entry: Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer. 25-May-23 by David Martin System Entry: Project has been implemented and final report uploaded. 27-May-23 by Dusty Babitzke System Entry: Final report approved by the District Approval Committee.