Next Chapter Literacy Fund

This fund supports grants to promote a deeper understanding and teaching of literacy, to enrich instructional programs, to provide opportunities to link literacy between the home and the school, and to lay foundations that will develop life-long readers. Annually, at least two book vending machines are also supported by this fund for area elementary schools. The fund also grants to area libraries annually. Click here to donate.

In 2024, Next Chapter Literacy Fund grant recipients were:

1. $14,000 to United Way of Decatur for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library
2. $7,000 for new book vending machine at White Health Elementary School
3. $7,000 for new book vending machine and additional books at Argenta-Oreana Elementary School
4. $2,500 to South Shores Elementary School for additional vending machine books
5. $1,000 to Allerton Public Library
6. $ 500 to Hope Welty Public Library

In 2023, the following Next Chapter Literacy Fund grant recipients were:

• $1,000 to South Shores Elementary School for additional vending machine books
• $1,000 to Parsons Elementary School for additional vending machine books