Laura Bush Grant Application

The mission of the Laura Bush Foundation for Americas Libraries is to help school libraries (a)
encourage and foster a love of reading; (b) support student learning; and (c) make books and reading
materials available to students who otherwise would not have access to them.
YOUR SCHOOL IS ELIGIBLE TO APPLY IF IT MEETS THE FOLLOWING FIVE CRITERIA:
1. Your school has been in operation for a minimum of one year prior to your application so that you
are able to provide accurate information about the percentage of students in your school eligible for
the free or reduced lunch program (FRL).
2. Your school has a student body where 85% or more of your students qualify for free or reduced
lunches.
3. Your school has a school library that meets the following definition:
A library is a uniquely designated space in which books and other materials are systematically
classified and arranged by subject and type. They are stored in a place and manner that allows
access to all students and adults in the school.
Please note that the definition does not include classrooms or classroom sets of books, collections of
books stored in a room that are not organized and classified in a systematic way, or collections of
books on rolling carts of any description.
4. The day-to-day oversight and operation of your school library is carried out by a paid contracted
staff member who fits the following definition: The person is designated by the school administration
as responsible for the collection, care, and use of the materials housed in the dedicated space of the
library.
5. Your school has not previously received a grant from the Laura Bush Foundation for Americas
Libraries. Schools that have previously received a grant from the Laura Bush Foundation for Americas
Libraries are ineligible to apply.
PLEASE NOTE THAT YOUR APPLICATION WILL NOT BE READ IF IT IS INCOMPLETE. Every question
asked must be answered. Where the question appears inapplicable to your particular school, you must
write in zero, not available, not applicable, none, no or some other word that explains why
you are not answering a question.
All required fields are indicated.
Application submission:

Application submissions are due Monday, December 15, 2014 (8:00 p.m. Central Standard
Time).

Questions regarding the application must be submitted by Friday, November 21, 2014 (8:00
p.m. Central Standard Time).

Applications must be submitted via the online application form. Applications sent via fax, mail,
or e-mail cannot be accepted.

All application questions must be completed. Incomplete applications cannot be considered.

To access and successfully complete the application, please use one of the following web
browsers: Internet Explorer, Safari, or Google Chrome. To use the calculation feature for
several questions within the application, please enable JavaScript.

To submit the application, make sure to click the Submit the Proposal to LBF button. An email will be generated to your e-mail address confirming delivery once the application is
submitted.

We anticipate that recipients will be identified and awards will be made before the middle of
May, 2015.

We recommend that you save your content information into your own Microsoft Word file
before submission.

Important: Please read Frequently Asked Questions and the Grading Rubric sections on this
website before filling out the application.
The Laura Bush Foundation for Americas Libraries is a fund of the George W. Bush Foundation, a nonprofit 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization. For general questions regarding the Foundation or the
application, please contact us at laurabushfoundation@bushcenter.org.
We are interested in how you first became aware of the LBF grant program. Please select one of
the following.
A. Professional journal
B. LBF website
C. LBF brochure
C. Vendor/Commercial Publisher
D. At a conference or convention
E. Online discussion group
F. Building administrator
G. District administrator

Other
Other, please specify:

PART I: CONTACT INFORMATION

The first thing we need is to know how to contact you at your school. This allows us to get
in touch with you to confirm receipt of your proposal, to send an inquiry should there be a
question about your application, to pass along any important announcements, or to send
you additional information or material if the need should arise. Please provide the
following:
1. School name: *

Hertitage Elementary

2. Name of the school district or governing organization: *

Fulton County Schools

3. Schools Federal Employer Tax Identification Number: *

000000000
(Tax ID is 9-digits numerical number only. The number can be obtained from the schools and/or districts Finance Office)

4. School's mailing address:

Line 1 *

2600 Jolly Road

Line 2
City *

college Park

State *

Georgia

Zip Code *

30349

5. School's telephone and fax numbers (please use 10 digits, no spaces or hyphens):
Phone: *

4046698144

Fax number
6. School's email address. This will be used for notification if you are funded. Be sure to double-check
that it is correctly entered: *

7. Principal's name:
Last Name *

Turner

First Name *

Cheree Turner

Email address *

turnerch@fultonschools.org

8. Name of the person filling out this application:

Last Name: *

Martine

First Name: *

Robinson

9. Title of person filling out this application: *

Student Teacher

10. Telephone number of the person filling out this application (please use 10 digits, no spaces or
hyphens): *

000000

11. Email address of the person filling out this application. We will send an email to this address to
confirm receipt of the application: * Martinerobinson1812@gmail.com
12. Is the person filling out this application also the person responsible for the day-to-day on-site
library operation in the school? *
Yes
No
Please note: Preference will be given to applications that are prepared by the person in your school
specifically responsible for the library. We believe that the person on-site has the best understanding
of the library's status, needs, and potential.

PART II: SCHOOL AND LIBRARY STRUCTURE AND OPERATION

Here we are looking for information that will help put your proposal in context. The answers to these
questions provide a profile of your school and illustrate how and where your library fits into the larger
picture of your school and its student population.
13. Which of the following best describes the school? If "other", provide a short description (25 words
or less) *
Preschool and/or Kindergarten
Primary School

Primary/Elementary School
Elementary School
Middle School / Jr. High School
High School
Pre K or Kindergarten through Grade 8 School
Grades 7 through 12 School
Pre K or Kindergarten through Grade 12 School
Other (please specify)

14. Which of the following best describes the school? If "other", provide a short description (100
words or less) *
Public
Public alternative
Public charter
Private
Other (please specify)

15. What percentage of your student body is eligible for free and reduced lunch (FRL)?
Secondary schools may submit verifiable FRL data averaged from all feeder schools.
90-95%

16. Please provide NCES Information:

A. What is your school's NCES ID?

130228002379
Please see:http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/ if you need to find it.

B. If this is a secondary school using data from feeder schools, list all schools that feed into your high
school, providing name and NCES IDs:

17. How many students are there in the school this year? *
566
Please use numbers only, no commas

18. How many books are in your school's library collection? *

1777
Please use numbers only, no commas

19. How many books per student does this provide? *

3.14
Please use numbers only, no commas

20. What is the distance to the nearest public library? Please choose one from the pull-down menu: *
1 to 5 miles

21. Does your school have a certified school librarian on site who runs the library day-to-day? *
Yes
No
If your school does have a certified librarian on site, proceed to Question Number 22.
If your school does not have a certified librarian, please describe the person who currently
has day-to-day responsibility for the library and its operation.
(A) Position Description:
Certified teacher
Administrator
Certified specialist in some area other than library media

Aide or para-professional
(B) Is this person full-time or part-time in the library?
Full-time in the library
Part-time in the library
(C) What is this person's education and experience?
No degree
Bachelors degree
Masters degree or higher
(D) Library Media Training
Has no library media training
Has some library media training
Is a qualified library technician
Is currently in a library media certification program
Has temporary library media certification
Is taking on-line training
(E) Experience in the library job:
First year responsible for the library
1-3 years experience responsible for the library
4 or more years experience responsible for the library
22. Other Duties: Does the person primarily responsible for the library have a second
responsibility in the school (e.g., classroom teacher, counselor, administrator, secretary,
etc)?
Yes
No
If yes, describe that responsibility:

n/a

The answer is limited to 50 words.

23. Does the person responsible for the on site day-to-day operation of the library have support staff
such as aides, clerks, para-professionals, parent/community volunteers, or other help? *
Yes
No
If yes, please describe that help in 25 words or less:
The media assistant is a full time employee that is responsible f

24. Please provide the following information concerning the budget for library books for
this year. Use numbers; no commas. (Refer to the Frequently Asked Questions for items
that are considered part of the budget for library books).
(A) Total library book budget provided by the governing body for the 2014-2015 school year (this
would include any funds allocated directly from the district as well as funds allocated through the
principals budget for the building). *$

5100.00

In answering this question, please remember that a book is a print or Braille bound volume or an audio-book on an
audio-tape, CD-ROM, or other digital format. For this definition, books are part of either the reference section or the
circulating section of the schools central library collection.

(B) Total library magazine/serial budget provided by the governing body for the 2014-2015 school
year (this would include any funds allocated directly from the district as well as funds allocated
through the principals budget for the building).
*$

1100.00

(C) Total funds from other sources used for books or magazines, such as grants, book fairs, money
from parent organizations, other fund-raising activities, etc. *$

700.00

(D) Including all of the above allocations, how much is this per pupil for the school year? *$/pupil:
10.24

PART III: THE PROPOSAL

Please provide the most compelling explanation of your students needs and the clearest description of
your proposal that you can provide. Answer every part of every question. We cannot appropriately
evaluate incomplete applications.
Please also remember that funds are available only for library books and magazine/serial copies and
subscriptions. The Laura Bush Foundation is unable to honor requests for staffing, shelving, furniture,
equipment, e-readers, software, videos, classroom book sets or any kind of book guides, tests or
exams.
Important: Please read the Frequently Asked Questions and the Scoring Rubric sections before
answering the questions below.
25. Is the person filling out this application responsible for carrying out the activities described in this
grant proposal? *
Yes
No
If no, who will be responsible? Please list the name, title, and experience of each person who will have
responsibility for implementing the proposal:
Last name
First name
Title:
Experience

This answer is limited to 100 words.

26. Every school, school population and school library is unique. What distinguishes your
school, your school population and your library? Particularly address any condition in the
school, community or student population that demonstrates a unique and compelling need
for books. What role does your school library play in addressing your students needs?
Our school serves a dynamic group of students with a large number of African, Hispanic and American
students. This dynamic group of students is in need up to date non-fiction books written from a

variety of sources. Most of the student come from low social economic homes with limited access to
internet resources. A solid collection of books written on a k-5 grade level would grant access for
students to check out books to gain the vital knowledge needed to be successful in class.
This answer is limited to 500 words.
27. Give a broad overview of the strengths and weaknesses of your library as well as a
description of your library collection improvement goals:
Our media center strives to provide the most current and update resources to support our students
and staff. We have a vast collection of easy picture books for students and a growing collection of
Common Core print and digital resources for faculty. We are currently, looking to provide a more
extensive amount of STEM related books to incorporate into our collection. Science and Math are areas
of weakness for our school, so we would like to provide as many materials as possible to support the
initiative to improve student achievement in that area.
28. How much money (up to $7,000) are you requesting from the Laura Bush Foundation to
fund your proposal? Please use whole numbers only; no commas, decimals, or fractions:
*$

5000

29. What specific library need(s) are you addressing with this proposal? How will specific
student groups or school programs benefit from the Laura Bush Foundation grant? *

The Laura Bush Foundation grant would support the need for more Math, Science, and Technology
literature in our media center collection. The school has recently initiated the Imagineers STEM CLUb.
Which provides students to participate weekly in STEM activities weekly. The media center has
challenge for students to read "How to make" books and video themselves experimenting. This grant
would allow greater accessibility of differentiated STEM books that would reach a more students. The
science books would be used to support academic learning. The math books would be used to help
connect the content being learned in class to real life situations.
30. Describe your proposed categories of materials and allocation of grant money to meet
the specific needs described above:
Note: (a) you may not request anything other than books or magazines, and (b) if your plan includes
purchasing eBooks or any other electronic materials, indicate in what ways and how easily your
students will be able to access them.
The allocation of grant money would fund a collection of K-5 print & digital Science and Math literature
that aligns to the Georgia Common Core Standards. Students will have accessibility both in the
classroom and at home to the eBooks through Macinvia, which is our eresource library for Fulton
County schools. 50% of the books would be easy readers and the other 50% would be aligned for 3-

5th grade students. 80% of the allocation will be devoted to print based books and rest would be
ebooks used along with the classroom kindles.

31. How does your library collaborate with the school community to address student needs?
How does the school library program promote collaboration among members of the school's
learning community? *
We are actively seeking more ways to collaborate with our community based resources. However,
within our school the library media specialist meets weekly with each grade level to brainstorm ways
to promote student literacy. Within those meetings, the media specialist and teachers collaborate on
upcoming events, club activities and author visits. This year the media center has plan to host a read
with a parent day, donuts with dads, character day, the Scholastic book fair, and parent information
sessions.

32. If you do receive a grant to implement your proposal, how will you measure and
evaluate its impact on the students, the library and the school? *
The media center will monitor the circulation of the new inventory to evaluate the rotation of the
material. The school data from the students SLO's scores and the semester benchmark assessments
will be evaluated and compared to previous data. In addition, the students' scores from the Georgia
Milestone assessment will be evaluated for increased performance.
33. If your school is selected as a recipient of a Laura Bush Foundation grant, do you agree
to participate in the Foundations evaluation program?
Yes
No
34. If your school is selected as a recipient of a Laura Bush Foundation grant, do you agree
that information from this application may be used for publicity to promote the goals of the
Laura Bush Foundation for Americas Libraries?
Yes
No
35. The principal bears ultimate responsibility for a given schools programs and
operations. The principal, by electronically inserting his or her name and the date approval
is granted below, approves the application and certifies the accuracy of the information
submitted.
I,

hereby certify the accuracy of the information provided in this application and fully support its
submission.
I support this application to the Laura Bush Foundation and the project described herein. Further, I
certify that funds granted by the Laura Bush Foundation will not be used to supplant money normally
budgeted for the library program. I understand that these funds are to be used for supplemental
funding only and may only be spent for books or magazines.
I also agree to have the information we have submitted be included as part of aggregated, anonymous
data used for research purposes.
If our school is funded, I agree to participate in publicity to promote the goals of the Foundation and
to submit an evaluation of the use of the funds a year after funds are received.
Date:
Month

Day

Year

PART IV: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Please remember that only this on-line application is official. We cannot accept any faxed, e-mailed, or
printed applications. Once you submit this application, it cannot be changed or retrieved. If multiple
applications are received from your school, only the first submission will be considered.
Please review your application before submitting. Check that all questions are answered and that you
are not requesting funds for anything except books (hardbound print or Braille volumes, audio-books
on audio-tape or CD-ROM, e-books to be added to either the circulating or reference section of the
school's central library collection, or magazine/serial copies or subscriptions).
Thank you for your interest in the Laura Bush Foundation. Best wishes for continued success in the
important work you do.
Note: You must click "Submit the Proposal to LBF" button below to complete this
submission process. Saved draft will not be considered.