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First-Book LCSC wins national summer contest
First Book-Lewis-Clark State College recently won a national competition sponsored by the First Book organization called “Keep Your ABs in Shape” for fundraising efforts and work with grants during the summer.
First Book is a national organization that has a primary goal of giving children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books.
“Keep Your ABs in Shape” was designed to encourage campus-based First Book advisory boards to remain active during the summer, June 1-Aug. 30. LCSC awarded the most dollars in book grants of any advisory board by giving almost $6,000 to area literacy programs. There are approximately 70 campus advisory boards in the First Bank organization, including on the campuses of Ivy League school’s Cornell and Dartmouth, as well as at Georgetown, Boston College, and Notre Dame.
As the winner of the competition, First Book-LCSC receives a $750 Borders gift card to present to a literacy group or program. The group will be able to use the gift card to purchase new books, which will become the property of the children who use them in the literacy program. The group receiving the gift card will be decided by the First Book-LCSC advisory board at a later date.
First Book-LCSC works to increase literacy levels by providing an ongoing supply of new books to children participating in existing community-based literacy programs.
First Book-LCSC serves children in Nez Perce, Lewis, Idaho and Clearwater counties in Idaho and Asotin County in Washington.
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