{"id":143797,"date":"2025-08-14T01:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T01:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/143797\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T01:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T01:08:13","slug":"a-local-nonprofit-children-organization-receives-12000-for-their-summer-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/143797\/","title":{"rendered":"A local nonprofit children organization receives $12,000 for their summer program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Close Icon\" class=\"styles-module_closeButtonSVG__Ea1L\" src=\"https:\/\/keprtv.com\/resources\/defaults\/news_3.0\/icons\/ui\/sbg-close-black.svg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kennewick, wash \u2014 The Children&#8217;s Reading Foundation of the Mid-Columbia received a grant of $12,000 from Battelle to fund their summer program called &#8221; Read Up Stop the Summer Slide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This funding allowed the organization to distribute 10,000 free books to children across Benton and Franklin counties during various community events.<\/p>\n<p>This program emphasizes the importance of reading during the summer months to prevent &#8221; Summer Slide.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8221; We know that their language increases, their reading skills, phonics, phonemic awareness, comprehension, all those things blossom. It&#8217;s especially imperative over the summer months, because they&#8217;re not getting that six hours in a school room  &#8221; said Leanne Luehrs-Purcell, Executive Director of the Children&#8217;s Reading Foundation of the Mid-Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>A major event that will be happening soon is in HAPO, they will be hosting a back to school event on August 18th where organizations like The Children&#8217;s Reading Foundation of Mid-Columbia will be providing free school supplies. <\/p>\n<p>The Children&#8217;s Reading Foundation of Mid-Columbia have a first year teacher program to assist with free books, for more information you can visit <a href=\"https:\/\/read20minutes.com\/our-programs\/first-teacher-libraries\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/read20minutes.com\/our-programs\/first-teacher-libraries\/\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kennewick, wash \u2014 The Children&#8217;s Reading Foundation of the Mid-Columbia received a grant of $12,000 from Battelle to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":143798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1022,85306,17065,171,24909,6139,8622,85308,85307,85309,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-143797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-childrens-organization","10":"tag-community-events","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-free-books","13":"tag-grant","14":"tag-nonprofit","15":"tag-reading-skills","16":"tag-summer-program","17":"tag-summer-slide","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115024449443012127","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}