Reading With Rotarians - Oct 7

I am pleased to announce Reading With Rotarians, our 2026-2027 District Grant project.  In the past, most of our grants have fallen into the community economic development area of focus so this year's grant is special in that we are doing only our second grant that falls under the basic education and literacy area of focus.  (The first grant was The Brain Game books for the hospital.)  This grant is especially meaningful to Decorah Public Library as funds are limited for the purchase of new materials in the children's section.  Our grant is increasing their annual budget by 50%!

While the books being purchased through our club's matching grant dollars have not yet been delivered to Decorah Public Library, we have an opportunity to start reading to kids early.  There will be several other reading opportunities in the coming months as well as a meeting to put the "donated by" labels in the books purchased by our club.