Ready. Set. Grow. West Central IllinoisHy-Vee on Harrison in Quincy has added “Brain Building Cookies” to their bakery selections! Come one, come all to buy these delicious cookies! While enjoying these yummy cookies, you can complete the “Brain Building” activity on each container of cookies with your 0-5 year old! Hy-Vee on Harrison, thank you for being champions in joining […]
Wonderful! Thank you so very much to the Quincy Gem City Breakfast Kiwanis Club for the grant dollars to buy beautiful new board books for babies and toddlers in the health department programs at Adams County Health Department. Our wonderful volunteers and nurses meet with parents and read with children. Each parent gets to take […]
We are so grateful to Community Foundation. Thank you for a grant from the Paul H. And Anne B. Gardner Memorial Fund, the Grace United Methodists Church of Quincy Fund and the Kaye & Norman Kemner Education fund. We are so grateful for the trust and the funding from Community Foundation serving West Central Illinois […]
Ready. Set. Grow! is at Quincy Medical Group Fair in Quincy. Volunteers are talking with parents about brain-building and the Vroom App. They are also giving children a free book and parents get a bookmark with reading tips. Other goodies too!
Thank you for a grant from the Paul H. And Anne B. Gardner Memorial Fund, the Grace United Methodists Church of Quincy Fund and the Kaye & Norman Kemner Education fund. We are so grateful for the trust and the funding from Community Foundation serving West Central Illinois and Northeast Missouri. Books. Books. Books in […]
Ready. Set. Grow! is beyond grateful to Pilot Club for providing funds to support our message in Morgan County. Thank you to Pilot Club! You are champions! Pilot Club of Jacksonville with Pilot International Founders Fund awards a matching grant to Ready Set Grow WCI in the amount of $8000 to help educate parents on […]
The percent of parents at Adams County Health Department reading five or more days a week has doubled since 2013. Congratulations parents. Thank you volunteers and nurses who teach families about brain-building and gift a new book to each child. And thank you to our supporters who make the books possible, including Gardner Foundation, Tracy […]
Thank you Adams County United Way for the grant to buy STEM books for toddlers and preschoolers at Adams County Health Department. STEM books are counting books, shape books, and sorting and classifying books. If children enter school with strong number sense you have actually built a math brain that will help them all the […]
Thank you J. W. Gardner Foundation for the grant to support our efforts in Adams County. What a wonderful start to 2020! Children at Adams County Health Department will get brand new wonderful board books as their parents learn they can build brains in the early years. The percent of families reading five or more […]
We are so thankful for the grant from Community Foundation to buy books for little ones in Adams, Pike, McDonough, and Hancock Counties. The books go to babies in the WIC programs along with encouragement and support from nurses and volunteers. Does it matter? YES! The percent of parents reading five or more days a […]