City of Richmond (City of Richmond, Richmond Public Library)

To encourage early learning, the Richmond Public Library will partner with the Boys and Girls Club of Richmond, the YMCA of Richmond, and Woodville Day Nursery to develop a plan for working with a variety of community summer programs to combat summer reading loss among third-grade students in the city’s Promise Neighborhood. Partners will assess needs in the area, inventory existing summer programs, establish a sample component curriculum that could be used by multiple organizations offering summer programs, train program staff, develop an evaluation plan, pilot the program in summer of 2013, and measure the pilot program’s potential for success and replication in other areas of Richmond and in other urban communities.