One of the foundation’s spring grant requests was by Amherst Central School Distict’s Family Support Center.
Marlana Howard, LCSW, School Social Worker sent us a nice thank you note for helping fund the center’s lending library.
“Thank you again for choosing the Amherst CSD Family Support Center as a recipient of one of your generous Alumni grants. This grant helped get our SEL Lending Library off the ground. As a result of the Alumni Association grant we were able to purchase 204 books and have received several other donations from Amherst families.
As a grant recipient, we wanted to report back some of the measures taken towards the establishment of the SEL Lending Library, aside from the purchase of books. Those include:
- Maintaining our Amazon Wish List for families to peruse and donate if they are interested in contributing.
- Acquiring some new bookshelves to accommodate new books.
- Purchasing a stamp to mark the cover of each book to identify it as property of Amherst FSC’s
- Creating a comprehensive database that lists all of the books that we have and breaks it down so that we are more easily able to recommend and lend books to families based on specific issues they or their children may be struggling with and based on their age ranges.
- Developing a lending library agreement that will be utilized for every family who wants to borrow a book.
Below we have included some photos and a screen shot of the database. Unfortunately, the photos are not with the new bookshelves yet.“
Grants like this are made possible because of the generosity of Amherst Alumni and their donations. If you are interested in donating to the Amherst Central Alumni Foundation to help fund grants like these, visit https://www.amherstalumni.org/Donate.htm.
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