Stanislaus County
Stanislaus County Priorities and Progress
ABOUT STANISLAUS COUNTY
KEY PARTNERS
backbone organizations
increase access to books
Stanislaus Community Foundation City of Patterson
Community Services Agency
Stanislaus County Office of
Education
E & J Gallo Winery
Increase children’s access to books in early years by expanding Imagination Library,
Stanislaus County Children &
Families Commission
a free book distribution program for families, to five pilot school zip codes.
Stanislaus County Library
pilot school partners
Stanislaus READS! is a multi-agency, multi-year
initiative to uncover many winning solutions to help
children read — and succeed — by third grade. Our
invest in summer learning
Develop best practices for integrating literacy curriculum into existing summer enrichment
coalition of public, private, philanthropic, and faith-
programs; provide students with scholarships for community-based summer camps; and create
based partners imagine a community where every
more opportunities for summer learning by opening pilot school libraries and computer labs in the
child shows up on the first day of kindergarten ready
to learn, has quality children’s books in the home, is
summer.
healthy and in school daily, and participates in
literacy-rich summer programs. If we work together,
Stanislaus County can be a place where every child
is equipped to succeed, not just in school, but in life.
City of Modesto
Implement a universal kindergarten assessment to determine school readiness baseline data and
Friends of the Library, Modesto
Branch
Girls Scouts Heart of Central
California
Modesto Bee
Modesto City Schools District—
Burbank Elementary School
Modesto Junior College
Stanislaus Union School District—
Josephine Chrysler Elementary
School
Morgan Stanley
Sylvan Unified School District—
Sylvan Elementary School
Modesto Rotary
Parent Institute for Quality
Education
Sierra Vista Child & Family Services
Waterford Unified School District— Stanislaus County Behavioral
Richard M. Moon Elementary
Health & Recovery Services
School
Stanislaus County Health Services
Patterson Joint Unified School
Agency
District—Las Palmas Elementary
Stanislaus County Housing
School
Authority
strategic partners
collect better data
El Concilio
Stanislaus County Police Activities
League (PAL)
Boys and Girls Club of Stanislaus
County
Stanislaus County Special
Supplemental Nutrition Program for
Women, Infants and Children (WIC)
California State University,
Stanislaus
United Samaritans Foundation
Center for Human Services
United Way of Stanislaus County
to measure progress over time; identify chronically absent children and uncover why they are
local data
missing school; and utilize school reading assessments to measure student achievement loss
over the summer.
•  27.2% of children live in poverty
•  55.7% of child population is Latino
Building Financial Support
build community awareness
Design a county-wide marketing campaign around school readiness, chronic absence, and
•  30% of children live in households in which
the primary language spoken is Spanish
summer learning. Engage parents and broader community on the importance of early literacy and
attendance in primary school years. Centralize information about summer programs at the
• 
38% of 3- and 4-year-olds attend preschool
•  61% of third grade students are not reading
at grade level
community level to improve family access to enrichment opportunities.
The Campaign for
GRADE-LEVEL
READING
Stanislaus Community Foundation has invested
time and financial resources to the early planning
phase of the Stanislaus READS initiative.
Stanislaus Community Foundation has committed
all 2015 discretionary grant-making dollars to
support the implementation of Stanislaus READS!
and the Foundation will continue to make
investments over the next three years and actively
pursue additional financial support for the initiative.
Early funding partners include the Modesto Rotary
Club, Morgan Stanley, Stanislaus County Office of
Education and in-kind support from original Steering
Committee agencies.
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