Dollar General Literacy Foundation Awards Grant to Manchester District Library

Last month the Dollar General Literacy Foundation awarded the Manchester District Library a literacy grant in the amount of $1,426.90 to support local literacy. This will be used for the 2015 Summer Reading Program. It will pay for special superhero-themed books for kids and four programs including Zeemo’s performance on Friday and later in the summer visits from the Critter Guy, the Leslie Science Center and the Ann Arbor Hands On Museum. Additionally, all of the promo bands and gifts that the library hands out during the program and the grand prizes at the end of Summer Reading will be purchased with the grant

This grant award is part of over $5.8 million in grants awarded at the same time to approximately 720 schools, nonprofits and organizations across the 43 states the company serves. These grants bring the total impact of the Dollar General Literacy Foundation’s to over $100 million in grants to assist nearly six million people improve their lives through literacy and education since the foundation’s inception in 1993. A complete list of grant recipients may be found online here.

Kathy Dimond, Director of the Manchester District Library stated, “We are very, very grateful to Dollar General.”

The Dollar General Literacy Foundation is proud to support initiatives that help others improve their lives through literacy and education as part of the company’s mission of Serving Others for over 20 years.  Since its inception in 1993, the Dollar General Literacy Foundation has awarded more than $100 million in grants to nonprofit organizations, helping nearly six million individuals take their first steps toward literacy or continued education. For more information about the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and its grant programs, visit www.dgliteracy.org.

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by Sara Swanson

Sara Swanson is an editor, writer and founder of the Manchester Mirror.