Project Description Country: USA Location: Preston Total Budget: $1,800 Area of Focus: Basic education and literacy Activity Type: Education: General Summary: The project provides the needed school backpacks and the school supplies needed for underpriveleged 5th graders at Oakwood Elementary in Preston Idaho. With almost 17% of children living below the poverty line in Franklin County, Idaho our Rotary Club is looking for proactive measures to help kids and families with an economic need. With improving education situations as an important step to improving long-term economic development, our project is focusing on a small but needed area of providing school supplies. We are initially working to provide backpacks and supplies for incoming 5th-grade students of Oakwood Elementary school. Working with the Preston Education Foundation who helped us identify this need, we expect to provide for every in-need child. In the past, the Preston Education Foundation had an annual project to provide supplies and clothes for school children in need. However, they are no longer able to continue with this project. We believe this brings a more urgent need for our project to succeed. The Rotary Club members will be raising funds, purchasing the supplies, preparing, and delivering the backpacks to the teachers for distribution to children. Distribution is expected in August 2023. We plan to distribute at least 45-55 backpack depending on need. Project Contact Person District: 5400 Rotary Club of: Preston Primary Contact: Kelly Mickelsen Email: kellym@prestonid.us Project Status Fully Pledged This project is "Fully Pledged". This means the amount of the pledges is equal to the total budget of the project. Now the project needs to be finalized and go through the club signature process. This process gets started on the administration page. Project listed for the 2025-26 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Preston (5400) 17-Jun-25 $450 $1,350 $1,800 Total $450 $1,350 $1,800 DDF contributions in grey are pending approval of the corresponding district committee.

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History Log Entries 17-Jun-25 by Marianne Barker I'm sad to say that the deadline for applications for 2025-26 Rotary Foundation District Grants was June 1st. We are not able to consider your late application, as the block grant amount available to us is less than the sum of the requests that were submitted on time, and we had to make cuts as it was. 17-Jun-25 by Kelly Mickelsen System Entry: Creation of project page.