DARLINGTON - The Lafayette County Association for Home and Community Education recently received two grants - one from the Shullsburg Community Fund and one from the Darlington Area Community Fund, both components of the Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin, Inc. - to support the Wisconsin Bookworms Program.
The program is an effort designed to provide free books to children who may not otherwise own books, giving them an opportunity to be read in order to help preschool children gain a lifelong love of reading. The families of the young children become involved in reading to their kids and doing family literacy activities with their children.
The Shullsburg Community Fund and the Darlington Area Community Fund responds to the area's not-for-profit organizations wanting to start new, innovative programs or expand current services and provides the greatest flexibility for addressing changing needs to advance the most promising, creative approaches to strengthening communities. Grants from the Shullsburg Community Fund have strengthened ties between generations and have encouraged community participation in the arts, education, environment, health and human service programs, and historical preservation.
For more information, contact Linda Gebhardt at (608) 328-4060 or the Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin at (800) 995-2379 or www.cfsw.org.
The Community Foundation serves Crawford, Grant, Green, Iowa, Lafayette, Rock and Walworth counties.
The program is an effort designed to provide free books to children who may not otherwise own books, giving them an opportunity to be read in order to help preschool children gain a lifelong love of reading. The families of the young children become involved in reading to their kids and doing family literacy activities with their children.
The Shullsburg Community Fund and the Darlington Area Community Fund responds to the area's not-for-profit organizations wanting to start new, innovative programs or expand current services and provides the greatest flexibility for addressing changing needs to advance the most promising, creative approaches to strengthening communities. Grants from the Shullsburg Community Fund have strengthened ties between generations and have encouraged community participation in the arts, education, environment, health and human service programs, and historical preservation.
For more information, contact Linda Gebhardt at (608) 328-4060 or the Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin at (800) 995-2379 or www.cfsw.org.
The Community Foundation serves Crawford, Grant, Green, Iowa, Lafayette, Rock and Walworth counties.
