Reflection on Global Scholars Grant Proposal Event
This past Monday, I had the amazing opportunity to present a grant proposal on behalf of Reading Partners, a national literacy nonprofit with which I have worked throughout high school, to a panel of judges connected to the Poly and Pasadena community. My grant proposal, which I described in a recent blog post, sought to expand the selection of books in Los Angeles Reading Partners libraries that center on global narratives or stories with a diverse cast of characters. Mine was one of two fully funded projects for groups from Poly; alongside those two projects were also two groups from Partnership for Success! that received a grant that fulfilled their request completely. One other Poly group was partially funded, and the remaining groups’ organizations received donations. I received $1900, the lion’s share of which will go to purchasing collections of books from Lee and Low Publishing, a company with values congruous to the ones associated with my grant proposal: pushing for re