BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.–Target recently awarded Berkeley County First Steps with a $2,000 grant to help fund Berkeley County Early Readers Fund.
“We are grateful to Target for their investment in Berkeley County children and families and look forward to sharing outcomes as we progress,” organizers stated on their website.
The goal of the Berkeley County Early Readers Fund is to:
• Provide opportunities for exposure to books and early reading for children before entering elementary school
• Provide parents with family literacy strategies and materials to use at home
• Serve as community resource for early literacy and support child care providers in implementing developmentally appropriate early literacy and language development activities in their programs
• Disseminate a “Literacy Benchmarks” document to track each child’s progress and help parents identify interventions to support each child’s reading development
• Outreach to special populations including rural, at-risk, and those for whom English is a second language
For more information on the organization, click here.
