Smith Farm Curriculum Coordinator Receives $3,000 Grant from Dollar General for Books

Barbara Nail

Barbara Nail, the curriculum coordinator at Smith Farm Elementary School, has received a $3,000 Youth Literacy Grant from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation.

“She wrote the grant to help our new school build up our limited book room of leveled readers,” said Principal Donald Hampton. “The Smith Farm family is so proud of her!”

Dollar General Youth Literacy grants provide money to funding to schools, public libraries, and nonprofit organizations to help new or expanding existing literacy programs, to purchase new technology or equipment to support literacy initiatives and to purchase books, materials or software for literacy programs.

You will find a complete list of grant recipients at Youth Literacy Grants