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Bank of America awards grants to San Luis Obispo nonprofits
The grants total $385,000.
John Bazemore/AP
On July 13, Bank of America announced that they are awarding $385,000 to San Luis Obispo area nonprofits. The grants are part of the bank s Charitable Foundation giving.
and last updated 2021-07-13 18:06:11-04
Bank of America has announced that they are awarding $385,000 in grants to San Luis Obispo area nonprofits.
The grants will go to 13 organizations. The bank says the grants will help drive opportunity and upward mobility for individuals and families.
As businesses begin to safely reopen, Greg Bland, president of Bank of America San Luis Obispo, says the grants are a way to help disadvantaged communities through investing in both short and long-term needs.
–The Raising a Reader (RAR) committee of The Monday Club has launched a new program to further their mission of promoting childhood literacy and providing access to books for children. This new outreach will help provide books to more children, not just those who participate in the RAR program through their schools.
The plan is to collect “gently loved” children’s and young adult’s books (ages 0 – 18) from Monday Club members and from the community and deliver them to the SLO Food Bank to be distributed via a program called “Breakfast Bags.” These are drawstring backpacks given to youth under 18, which are filled with 3 weeks’ worth of shelf-stable, easy-to-prepare breakfast items and other resource material. The Food Bank works to distribute 9,900 of these bags per year to 40 sites. The Food Bank staff will put the donated books into the Breakfast Bags, ultimately getting them into the hearts and homes of children without access to books in their homes, and helpin
The San Luis Obispo County Office of Education announced that nearly 60% of its employees who work with TK-through 12th-grade students have been vaccinated for COVID-19.
Central Coast educators, childcare workers start to get vaccinated this week
Christine Miller
and last updated 2021-03-01 21:18:33-05
Some of the first teachers got their COVID-19 vaccines in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties on Monday.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said starting March 1, 10% of vaccines in the state will be set aside for teachers and educators. From there, San Luis Obispo County Public Health officials said 10% of the vaccines they get will be set aside for education as a whole.
The distribution for each district is different and those working in special education are getting priority this week.