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Ennis' Gift | Fordham University Certificate Program | Classroom Library Project |
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Our 2nd Annual Classroom Lending Library Project was a huge success. The Hello Friend/ Ennis William Coscy Foundation gave away more than 600 classroom libraries to UNDER-RESOURCED, MAINSTREAM, PUBLIC SCHOOL classrooms, serving children who do not have adequate reading at home. We are so excited to be able to help teachers and children in such a tangible way. This remarkable project was made possible though the creativity and generosity of Scholastic Book Clubs, who donated the books.We are so excited to be able to help teachers and children in such a tangible way. We are sorry to say that the application period for the 2003 Lending Library Project is now closed. We hope to give away more Classroom Lending Libraries for 2004, so please check back on our site next year. | |
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Ennis' Gift, A Film About Learning Differences, inspired by the legacy of Ennis William Cosby will be shown on HBO on November 23, 2001 at 7:30 PM Eastern Standard Time. Hosted by Ed Bradley, Ennis' Gift includes actors Danny Glover, James Earl Jones, Lindsey Wagner, and Henry Winkler; business leader Charles Schwab; artist Robert Rauschenberg; athlete Bruce Jenner; MacArthur genius award winning paleontologist Jack Horner; polar explorer Ann Bancroft; and Bill Cosby’s brother Russell along with children, educators, and others whose voices together tell the story of their common experiences, and share a vision of hope and possibility. Click here for more information about the film. Ennis’ Gift will be shown on HBO this Thanksgiving holiday weekend on Friday, November 23, 2001 at 7:30 PM Eastern Standard Time. Visit HBO for the full listing of showtimes. | |
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The Hello Friend/Ennis William Cosby Foundation has been selected by Scholastic Books to be a Literacy Partner in its Classrooms Care program. Classrooms Care is based on a “read-a-thon” concept. It is designed to encourage reading in classrooms, awareness of the needs of others, and giving. For every one hundred books that participating classrooms read, Scholastic will donate 100 books (up to one million books) to needy children through its Literacy Partners. Scholastic describes Classrooms Care on its web site at teacher.scholastic.com/clubs/classroomscare Beginning in January 2002, The Hello Friend/Ennis William Cosby Foundation will receive and distribute up to a quarter of a million books to kindergarten through second grade classrooms and students in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and the Mississippi Delta. |
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The Fordham University Graduate School of Education at Lincoln Center is the first recipient of the Hello Friend/Ennis William Cosby Foundation grant to train teachers to teach reading to students with learning differences. The Fordham University Graduate School of Education at Lincoln Center is the first recipient of the Hello Friend/Ennis William Cosby Foundation grant to train teachers to teach reading to students with learning differences. The grant provides 20 full tuition scholarships each year, for three years, beginning September, 2000 to the Ennis William Cosby Graduate Certificate Program entitled "Young Readers at Risk: Identification and Intervention.". |