Empowering Communities Through Community Coalition Grant Initiative
Print This PostThe Sandra Dunagan Deal Center for Early Language and Literacy and the Get Georgia Reading Campaign for Grade-Level Reading are pleased to support the FY2024 Community Coalition Grant Initiative, including five Georgia Family Connection Collaboratives. The Deal Center is investing in projects that use the four research-based pillars of the Get Georgia Reading Campaign as a framework for cross-sector collaboration, to advance developmentally responsive practices throughout a community, town, city, and/or county. This initiative funds projects that foster optimal conditions for educational, social, language, literacy, and/or cognitive development for Georgia’s children from birth through age 5.
Thirteen grants of $10,000-$24,000 were awarded.
Awardees include:
- Augusta University Research Institute
- Boy With a Ball
- Cobb Collaborative, Inc.
- Community Foundation for the CSRA
- Cook County Family Connection
- Lucky Shoals Community Association, Inc.
- Meriwether County Family Connection
- Sumter County School System
- Tri-County Family Connection
- Troup Family Connection Authority
- United Way of Northwest Georgia
- United Way of the Coastal Empire
- Warren County School System
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