Need: The Children’s Basic Reading Program (CBRP) targets first through sixth grade students experiencing severe reading difficulties. 70 percent of these students are economically disadvantaged. These students often do not receive adequate reading intervention in traditional school settings. CBRP participants meet for one hour, four days a week for two consecutive school years. Program graduates average a 3.6 grade level increase in their word attack skills.
GCF Grant: $18,000 for Children’s Basic Reading Program
Additional Resources: Meet some literacy heroes. Visit the Literacy Information and Communication System. Help someone you know that needs help reading.
Need:
- Since CATC opened its doors, CPS graduation rates have increased by 20 percent.
- 97 percent of active participants earn the credits they need to
move to the next grade or graduate.
- Graduation rates for seniors in the program exceed 90 percent.
- 85 percent of students who graduate voluntarily take steps
toward applying to higher education institutions.
- CATC impacted the lives of more than 1,400 students in its first five years and is on course to do the same for more than 2,000 students in its second five years.
CATC has helped the vast majority of its students to change their grades, their attitudes, their beliefs and expectations, often their circle of friends and their interactions with the rest of the world. To continue this success CATC needs to expand its arts program.
GCF Grant: $100,000 for expanding arts program
Additional Resources: Read CATC student success stories. Read a story about CATC in one of our annual reports. Learn about Bridging the Gap. Learn about the Manchester Bidwell Corporation, the model for CATC.
Need:
- 22,000 children ages 0 to 6 years in Hamilton County live at or below 200 percent of the poverty level.
- Of the 2,800 children entering Cincinnati Public School District kindergarten, 56 percent (1,568) do not meet school readiness benchmarks.
- The availability of quality early childhood education slots in Northern Kentucky is decreasing.
- The percentage of licensed childcare slots with quality standards in Brown and Clermont counties is 27 percent and 22 percent, respectively.
- Middletown kindergartners scored well below the state average on the Ohio literacy assessment.
- 53 percent of Boone County children scored below what is expected for entering kindergarteners on a literacy assessment.
Success by 6®’s action plan includes home visits for children at-risk of not being ready for kindergarten and increasing the availability of quality preschool services.
GCF Grant: $300,000 for improving kindergarten readiness
Additional Resources: Find out if your child is ready for kindergarten. Read a story about Success by 6® in one of our annual reports. Learn tips on how to prepare your child for school from the U.S. Department of Education. Learn about Success by 6® on Strive’s website.
89% of children in Covington live in poverty, the highest in the region. 10 percent are homeless; the highest in the state; 23% are considered special needs, higher than the state average; and only 3% of graduates are academically ready for college.
Need: The NDEC provides a safe and nurturing space for students to learn. Programs are offered to students and their families after-school, on weekends and during summer recess. The NDEC helps students meet state and local student standards in core academic subjects; offer students enrichment activities; support children whose families suffer from drug and alcohol abuse.
GCF Grant: $20,000 for equipment for Notre Dame Education Center
Additional Resources: Read about a
project the Carnegie Arts Center did at NDEC.