Prince Georges County Memorial Library System Foundation Inc

Branch programming: 128,236 was spent on programming activities associates with projects that will be housed at the dream lab, life lab, social equity commons, foundry and e-studio.

The pgcmls foundation supported establishing a new outreach partnership with university of maryland capital region medical center to provide direct access to books from birth registration in the perinatal ward. Books from birth is a partnership with the dolly parton imagination library that provides a free book to children each month in the mail up to their fifth birthday. It is prince george's county's primary early literacy initiative. Books from birth registration bundles are provided to all families who register for books from birth prior to out-processing from giving birth. The bundles include a starter book, age-appropriate toy parents can use to support early literacy education, and instructional materials about the teaching newborns literacy skills. This outreach initiative has resulted in a significant increase in books from birth registrations, which now exceed 14,000 (up from approximately 13,000 at the point of starting this outreach initiative). Pgcmls foundation is also supporting part of the overall books from birth program costs, approximately 10% of the overall program implementation cost. In june of 2023 there were 14,173 participants.

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