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Arkansas State University, Arkansas Out of School Network. We served 88 families and 195 children in Springdale, Arkansas through the Feed Your Brain (FYB), Alimentu Tu Cerebro summer program. The children read 5276 books. The goal of FYB is to increase parent engagement, reduce chronic absenteeism, summer reading loss, and to make reading part of the home culture. We also served 22 children in our Science Action Club which is a program that engages youth to be connected to nature through the "Birds in Your School Yard" curriculum.

United Way of Northwest Arkansas. The Biliteracy and Leadership Project consisted of three pilot programs. Girl Scouts and two programs, Sin Limites and Spanish Literacy for Native Speakers to nurture the biliteracy skills of elementary students, teenagers, and adults. The pilot programs were implemented in two elementary schools in collaboration with the Girl Scouts-Diamonds of AR, OK, and TX, and the University of Arkansas Spanish Department. We served 10 Girl Scouts, 10 children in Sin Limites and 11 teens and adults in these programs for a total of 31 participants.

City of Fayetteville. To implement Feed Your Brain, Alimentu Tu Cerebro, a bilingual summer reading program. We served 20 families and 55 children for a total of 95 participants at three housing authority locations. The children read 2058 books. All the families that participated were classified at the extremely low income level. A comment from a parent captures the impact that the program has made on the families served. "We have changed our reading habits. Before the program my kids wouldn't look at a book, now they love books. Even at school they try to get the teacher to read them a book instead of having computer time."

Other program services. Program Service Expenses from other smaller grants in current year and expenses for grants received in prior year.