- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona: Literacy Connects has received funding from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona to bring the Reading Seed program to kindergarteners through fifth-graders at three Title I elementary schools in the Sunnyside Unified School District this coming school year — Mission Manor, Los Niños and Summit View.
Literacy Connects recruits and trains volunteer Reading Seed coaches from the community to help children who are reading below grade level in grades K-5. Reading Seed also offers a leveled lending library of books that match students’ interests with their reading abilities and distributes free books to children to encourage-independent reading.
- Old Pueblo Rotary Club of Tucson: From July 2016 to June 2017, the club awarded a combined $19,631 in grants to Cragin Elementary in TUSD, the Flowing Wells School District, Tucson Fire Department Camp Fury, Flowing Wells/University of Arizona Sky Camp, the Fran Coffey/Sid Tarin Scholarship, the Primavera Foundation Service Project, YMCA of Southern Arizona, the TUSD Elementary School Dictionary Project, and other nonprofits.
Submit items about charitable donations by local businesses or nonprofits to business@tucson.com; please use Giving Back in the email subject line and include photos in JPEG format.
