Submit your funding request today!
We accept funding request forms all throughout the year. Our next funding cycle will be in April 2024. As a recipient of The Open Book Project, you will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of the people in our communities.
SUPPORTING OUR COMMUNITIES ONE GRANT AT A TIME
East End Elementary School
Riley Child Development Center @ Ellen Woodside Elementary School
Riley Child Development Center @ Ellen Woodside Elementary School
Funding will be used to purchase books for 3rd-5th grade book clubs using the Serravallo comprehension kits to measure student learning and books for K-2 vending book machine.
Pictured: Samantha Jones, Angela Spearman, Kayla Swinyer, and Chris Brewington
May 2024
Riley Child Development Center @ Ellen Woodside Elementary School
Riley Child Development Center @ Ellen Woodside Elementary School
Riley Child Development Center @ Ellen Woodside Elementary School
Funding will be used to purchase quality picture books to enhance social-emotional learning in 3K & 4K. The "Little Spots" books will help children identify emotions and develop skills like empathy, frustration management, a growth mindset, flexible thinking, self-regulation, and handling worry.
Pictured: Morgan Warner, Assistant Principal, Shawn McCain, Principal, Lorie Steveson, Linda Michaels Maggie Schuetz, Ashley Harpe, Margo McMackin, Beth Mayfield, Heidi Peters, Sadie McKinney, Avie Gainey, Misty Strange, Lynn Boiter, Will Register
May 2024
Pickens Elementary School
Riley Child Development Center @ Ellen Woodside Elementary School
Pickens Elementary School
Funding will be used to purchase interactive literature for exploring American history. These funds will assist in integrating reading comprehension, historical events, and language skills through trade novels, aligning with social studies standards and sparking student interest.
Pictured: Jenn Hardin, Literacy Coach, Shannon Lawton, Principal, 4th grade students, Ashley Whitten, Alicia Shock, Katlin Smith, Lynn Boiter, Lorie Steveson
May 2024
Wren High School
Lakes and Bridges Charter School
Lakes and Bridges Charter School
Funding will be used to purchase novels for their resource classroom and will help build literacy skills and provide access to a variety of texts.
Pictured: Lynn Boiter, Lorie Steveson, Dr. Kyle Whitfield, Principal, Madyson (student), Dr. Megan Selman, Instructional Coach & Testing Coordinator, Skipper (student), Ashleigh Coker, Resource Teacher, and Tasha Gilstrap of Gilstrap Roofing
May 2024
Lakes and Bridges Charter School
Lakes and Bridges Charter School
Lakes and Bridges Charter School
Funding will be used to purchase the SPIRE/Morphology curriculum, lesson plans that are proven to be beneficial to students with dyslexia. The Junior Interact Club, led by Andy Sevic, collaborated to submit the application.
Pictured ~ Lynn Boiter, Lorie Steveson, Christa Brumfield, Junior Interact Club, Andy Cevic, and Cassie Keeler
May 2024
Hunt Meadows Elementary School
Lakes and Bridges Charter School
Hunt Meadows Elementary School
Funding will provide current and updated books for the 2nd grade classroom libraries. This will impact approximately 90 students per year and will increase reading interest levels and overall student engagement. Second grade is a crucial time to promote reading habits and improve reading skills. 2nd grade teacher, Keira Shufelt states, "having books our students want to read boosts confidence and nutures a lifelong love for reading.
Pictured ~ Front Row: Sarah Rogers, Rachel Foster, Keira Shufelt, Lynn Boiter, Lorie Steveson, Christa Brumfield Back Row: Assistant Principal, Lee Cromer, Kelly McClatchy, Principal, Carrie Pennington
May 2024
Pickens High School
Dacusville Middle School
Hunt Meadows Elementary School
Funding will be used to purchase essential supplies for the Teacher Cadets to use in their one-on-one work with struggling readers to boost independent reading skills.
Pictured ~ Dr. Angela Lucas, The Pickens High School Teacher Cadets, and Samantha Jones
March 2024
Women United
Dacusville Middle School
Dacusville Middle School
Funding will provide a total of 32 books and support 8 children who will each receive 4 books through Preschool Pages in the Fall of 2024. The children range in age from 1-4 years old and this will support children at one Preschool Pages site which will have one lead teacher and 1-2 teacher assistants.
Pictured from left to right: Sandi Maddox, Kay Hiott, Laura Boland, Julie Thompson, Jeanne Otter, Jennifer Shurley
December 2023
Dacusville Middle School
Dacusville Middle School
Dacusville Middle School
Funding provided in Dec 2023 the replenishment of the popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Dog Man books for the school media center. Approximately 250 students will have access to these books.
April 2024 Testimonial from Nikki Miller, Media Specialist: "I have many reluctant readers who head straight for that collection. I had many books that were in poor condition and "well-loved", as I like to call a book that has been worn out. It is so nice to be able to offer our students more copies of this favorite series of books. I am attaching a copy of the data that will show that Jeff Kinney's books have five titles in the Top 10 Books Circulated for the last 4 months. My students were extremely excited when I showed them that I had purchased another set for them! Thank you, once again, for allowing us the money to help keep students interested in coming to the library. Please keep us the awesome work you are doing to enrich literacy in our community!"
Liberty Elementary School
Liberty Elementary School
Liberty Elementary School
Funding will provide picture books related to speech therapy which will benefit approximately 45 students ranging in ages 4-11 years.
Pictured from left to right: Principal -Dr. Lowell Haynes, Speech Therapist - Anne Terry, and President of The Open Book Project - Samantha Jones
December 2023
Liberty Elementary School
Liberty Elementary School
Liberty Elementary School
Funding will provide updated classroom libraries and flexible seating which will benefit approximately 45 students ranging in ages 9-11 years.
Pictured from left to right: Principal -Dr. Lowell Haynes, 4th grade teacher - Elizabeth Gunnels, and President of The Open Book Project - Samantha Jones
December 2023
Liberty Elementary School
Liberty Elementary School
Liberty Elementary School
Funding will provide materials for ELA, Math, Science and Culture studies related to the start-up program for Montessori Education which will benefit approximately 39 students ranging in ages 9-11 years.
Pictured from left to right: Principal -Dr. Lowell Haynes, Upper Montessori Teacher - Emma Vess, and President of The Open Book Project - Samantha Jones
December 2023
Berea High School
Berea High School
Liberty Elementary School
Funding will provide 25 copies of What Happened to You by Bruce Perry - teaching effects of trauma on children and adolescents in working with at-risk students. This title will be used in teacher book clubs and PD's. "When we educate teachers we impact students. Twenty five teachers each come in contact with at least 80-100 students a year, so the benefit to students is widespread. In addition, there is a benefit to teachers as they become informed about trauma and how it has affected their own lives and the lives of their colleagues". BHS is a public high school that serves students from 9th-12th grades (ages 15-18) and special needs students up to 21 years of age.
Pictured from left to right: Business Teacher - Lisa Hill; Board President - Samantha Jones; Media Specialist - Janet Allen; Board Secretary - Suzanne Haynes.
December 2023
McKissick Academy of Science & Technology
McKissick Academy of Science & Technology
McKissick Academy of Science & Technology
Funding will provide leveled and decodable readers as well as Heggerty Intervention tools. Approxiamately 300 students will benefit from using Heggerty material in grades K3-2nd; 300 students will benefit from decodable readers; and 500 students will have access to the leveled readers.
Pictured from left to right: Samantha Jones - Board President and Angela Spearman - Reading Coach
December 2023
Homeland Park Primary School
McKissick Academy of Science & Technology
McKissick Academy of Science & Technology
Funding will provide new books for all 2nd grade classroom libraries which will impact 153 students per year.
Pictured from left to right:
Samantha Jones, Board President Cheryl Archie, 2nd grade
Melissa Milano, 2nd grade
Shana Alderman, 2nd grade
Nicole Torbert-Moorer, Principal
Meredith Finley, 2nd grade
Holly Bearden, 2nd grade
Jennifer Smith, 2nd grade
Dorienne Williams, 2nd grade
Lorie Steveson, Board Treasurer
December 2023
Crescent High School
McKissick Academy of Science & Technology
Crescent High School
Funding will provide 30 copies of the book, The Positve Dog. 200 students will have access to these materials.
Pictured from left to right:
Lorie Stevenson - Board Treasurer; Elinor Listor - Instructional Coach; Samantha Jones - Board President; and Cliff Roberts - Principal.
December 2023
Liberty Elementary School
McKissick Academy of Science & Technology
McKissick Academy of Science & Technology
Funding provided materials for their classroom teachers to utilize through their “teaching reading toolbox”. LES strives to create a strong reading foundation in each of their students by using these strategic resources in conjunction with each classroom library.
Pictured from left to right include: Lorie Steveson, Lynn Boiter, and Samantha Jones (Executive Board Members of The Open Book Project), Dr. Lowell Haynes - Principal, Mary Anne Fabian - School Counselor, Jenifer Griffis - Reading Coach, and Jamie Few - Assistant Principal (Liberty Elementary School Staff)
April 2023
McKissick Academy of Science & Technology
McKissick Academy of Science & Technology
McKissick Academy of Science & Technology
Funding provided for Orton Gillingham training for two of their teachers. The McKissick staff stated “We are so excited to use these funds to better prepare our teachers to teach reading rooted in the science of reading”
Pictured from left to right: Lynn Boiter - Vice President and Samantha Jones - President (The Open Book Project), Angela Spearman - Reading Coach and Heather Touchberry - Principal (McKissick)
April 2023
Upstate Literacy
McKissick Academy of Science & Technology
Clemson Elementary School
Funding provided in April 2023 for tuition fees which offer tutoring services for language based learning deficiencies.
Testimonial from Andrea Bishop, owner and lead literacy specialist (Aug 2023): "Student #1 was a 1st grader who went from reading on a beginning Pre-K level to reading independently on a 2nd grade level - which is above his grade level!
Student #2 was a 3rd grader who came in reading on a Kindergarten level and ended the school year reading independently on a 3rd grade level!
Clemson Elementary School
West Pelzer Elementary School
Clemson Elementary School
Funding provided in April 2023 for the Interactive Decodable Text Sets needed to provide more specific phonics instruction.
Testimonial from 1st grade teacher Sara Mann (Nov 2023): "The funding I received from The Open Book Project for Interactive Decodable Text Sets has truly benefited my students as we work on learning to be strong phonic readers. This year our district has shifted to more of a phonics based reading curriculum and I was concerned about not having decodable books to support this type of teaching, so that lead me to write the grant for these book sets. My students have used these book sets all school year and the books are directly supporting my teaching of various phonics skills. The books help me to see which students have mastered a specific skill and which students need more work in that area.
I'm so very grateful to The Open Book Project for their generous support and willingness to partner with me to help my students have the resources they need to be successful readers."
West Pelzer Elementary School
West Pelzer Elementary School
West Pelzer Elementary School
Funding provided for new books for K4 students that align with the theme of a grant written by K4 teacher, Mrs. Angie Lowery.
Pictured from left to right: Miranda Leopard - Assistant Principal, WPES; Lynn Boiter - Vice President (OBP); Lorie Steveson - Treasurer (OBP); Samantha Jones - President (OBP); Angie Lowery - K4 Teacher, WPES; and Amy Bagwell - Principal, WPES.
April 2023