The
Virginia Education Foundation's mission is to support Virginia
Title I public schools and qualifying
organizations in
Virginia that serve the
educational needs of low-income children and eligible
students with disabilities
Over the past four years, VEF has donated millions of dollars of
quality children's books to Virginia schools to support education
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NOTE #1:
This page is currently being updated. This page was last updated on September 14, 2021.Please scroll down to see the school systems receiving books.
VEF
has been so busy giving Virginia public school systems many tens of
thousands of books each year (including throughout the COVID-19
pandemic) that we have not taken the time to update this page since
September 14, 2021. That's why the number of books received by
each school system only reflected the number of books donated in 2020
or 2021. That's why the value of the books received by each
school system only reflected the books donated in 2020 or 2021.
That's why the age of the students receiving books only reflected the
books that VEF donated in 2020 or 2021. And that's why additional
school systems that started receiving VEF's books in 2022, 2023, or
2024 were not listed.We apologize for the delay in updating this page and for any confusion this may have caused.
NOTE #2:
On
August 21, 2024, VEF has started to update this page to also include
2022, 2023, and 2024. This update - when completed - will reflect
-the
significantly larger number of books that each school system has
received in the past four years - and the significantly larger, total
value of VEF's donations to each school system
the
age groups for the books. In many cases, the age groups for
donated books has expanded since 2020 or 2021 in order to serve more
students. (For instance, some school systems only received books
for elementary school students in 2020 or 2021. In 2022, 2023,
and 2024, those school systems continued to receive many books for
their elementary school students and also received quite a few books
for their pre-schoolers and middle school students, and some books for
their high school students.)
additional
school systems that have received donated books in 2022, 2023, and 2024
with the total number of books they received, the total value of these
books, and the age groups served.
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Danville
Public Schools
Original 2021 description:
VEF
has donated over 45,000 new, quality books
valued at over $693,000
to the Danville Public School System for
students in 8 elementary schools and 6 secondary
schools. This donation helped
over 6,000 students - all of whom (100%) are
low-income.
Updated 8/21/2024:
VEF has donated a total of 95,869 new, quality books
valued at $1,553,707 to the Danville Public School System.
VEF's books have primarily been for students in their Pre-K
programs, elementary schools,and middle schools with some
books for their high school students. VEF's books have helped
thousands of Danville students each year - all of whom (100%) are
low-income.
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Original 2021 description:
VHF
has recently donated about 24,000 new, quality books (retail
value over $340,000) to the Lynchburg City Public Schools for
their elementary and middle school students.
Updated 8/21/2024:
Over the past four years, VHF
has donated 92,552 new, quality books (retail
value $1,492,458) to the Lynchburg City Public Schools primarily for
their pre-K, elementary school, and middle school students with a few books for their high school students.
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Henry
County Public Schools
Original 2021 description:
VEF
has donated over 24,500 new, quality books
valued at $359,000
to the Henry County Public Schools to support
scholastic instruction
and literacy. Henry County has 9 Title I
elementary schools. Over 7,100 students benefitted.
Updated 8/21/2024:
Over
the past four years, VEF has donated 78,436 new, quality
books valued at $1,255,504 to the Henry County Public Schools to
support scholastic instruction and literacy, primarily in their
elementary schools. Thousands of students
have benefitted each year.
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Roanoke
City Title I Public Schools
Original 2021 description:
VEF
has donated over 45,000 new,
quality books valued at over $692,000
to Roanoke City Public Schools. Over
96% of their students are low-income. Over 9,600 students benefitted.
Updated 8/21/2024:
VEF
has donated a total of 107,365 new, quality books valued at over
$1,743,038 to Roanoke City Public Schools. Over 96% of their
students are low-income. VEF's books benefit over 10,000 students
each year.
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Richmond Public Schools
Original 2021 description:
VEF
has donated about 44,000 new, quality
books valued at over $663,000
to Richmond City Public Schools as part
of their "Lit
Limo Literacy" program. They
have a student population of over 21,000 who have benefitted - all
of whom are low-income.
Updated 8/21/2024:
VEF
has donated a total of 102,524 new, quality
books valued at $1,714,611 to the Richmond Public Schools to
support scholastic instruction and grade-level reading. Each
year, VEF's books benefit over 21,000 low-income students in
Pre-K, elementary school, middle school, and high school.
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Newly-listed:
Harrisonburg City Public Schools
VEF
has donated 27,994 new, quality books valued
at $474,957 to the Harrisonburg City Public School system. Thousands of low-income students benefit each year.
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Newly-listed:
Hampton City Public Schools
VEF
has donated a total of 59,492 new, quality books valued
at $990,215 to the Hampton City Public Schools. VEF's
books supported scholastic instruction and grade-level reading for
thousands of low-income elementary and middle school students.
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Henrico
County Title I Schools
VEF
has donated 30,412 new, quality books valued
at $384,196
to Henrico County Public School students in
Title I classrooms as part of
their "Reading
Skills and Strategies" program. Over 9,000 students (75% of whom are low-income) in 21 schools have benefitted.
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Louisa
County Schools
VEF
provided 4,300
books valued at $67,900 for Louisa County's
Title I
elementary schools and middle
school to support grade
level reading for their low-income
elementary and middle school
students and for students with IEPs.
Louisa students
with a few of the books donated by VEF
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Culpeper County School System
Original 2021 description:
VEF donated over 4,300 new, quality books
valued at $63,900
to the Culpeper School System for
scholastic instruction for over
2,100 students - about 1,350 are
low-income.
Updated 8/21/2024:
VEF has donated a total of 17,646 new, quality books
valued at $257,379
to the Culpeper County School System to support literacy and scholastic instruction for elementary and middle school students.
VEF's
Founder/Director
George Beker with a Culpeper student
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First
Lady
Pam Northam's Back-To-School Tour
VEF
provided support for the assembly and
delivery of boxes of
quality
children's books to Title I elementary school
classrooms and Head Start
classrooms. The books were distributed by
First Lady Pam
Northam
at each of the Title I schools and programs she
visited on her
state-wide tour.
Pam
Northam reading to a Title I
classroom
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Agnor
Hurt
Elementary School Reading Project
VEF
provided hundreds of new, quality books valued
at over $8,000 to support the
school's reading and literacy efforts
with low-income, Title
I children. VEF's books are also being
used in Agnor Hurt's new
Read-Aloud program.
Some
of the books donated to Agnor Hurt
by VEF
and
Angor
Hurt students enjoying them . . .
 
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300
After-School Programs
VEF
provided funding to the Virginia
Partnership for Afterschool
Programs (VPOST) to enhance educational
outcomes and reading
levels for low-income and disabled students
attending 300
after-school programs across
the Commonwealth. VEF's funding helped
these programs acquire
thousands of quality books.
Boxes
of books given to 300 after-school
programs at the VPOST
Conference
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Books
for
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children
VEF
partnered with the disAbility Resource
Center (dRC) and Virginia's
Children First. VEF gave them several
hundred carefully
selected
books and other educational materials for
scholastic instruction with
low-income children, deaf and hard of
hearing children, and
mentally-challenged adults.
disAbility
Resource Center's Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Coordinator, ReBecca
Bennett,
discusses dRC's literacy and reading
programs with VEF founder, George
Beker
Books
for
Farmington Elementary
VEF
provided $13,450 of children's activity
books to Farmington
Elementary School in Culpeper to support
their reading and
literacy efforts.
  Farmington
students exploring
VEF's activity books
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Books
for
Madison Primary
VEF
provided $3,500
of children's educational activity workbooks
to Madison Primary, a Title I school,
to support
their reading and literacy programs
with kindergarten and first grade students.
Assistant
Principal, Jackie Ovalle, meets
with George Beker
to accept VEF's book donation
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Title I public schools and organizations
funded or supported by VEF
are committed to promoting and enhancing children's literacy,
school
readiness, grade
level reading, and school success for primarily low-income
children in Virginia.
While
VEF's grant-making is typically by invitation,
inquiries concerning support are welcome
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