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Making a Difference: City National Bank, The Public Education Foundation and Clark County READS
It’s no secret that Clark County School District libraries are suffering from lack of funding. Driving home that point is the fact that up until recently, the average copyright date of Helen C. Cannon Junior High School’s nonfiction collection was 1989. That is, until City National Bank, the PEF and its Clark County READS initiative stepped in.
City National Bank, through its Reading is The Way Up literacy program, donated $10,000 to the Clark County READS Library Enhancement Program for this project. The PEF contributed $5000. Together, they provided the library with more than 700 new nonfiction books. “This is the second time City National Bank has enhanced a Clark County School District school library with new nonfiction books,” said Curtis Jones, director of Clark County READS. “City National Bank’s commitment to education is impacting the lives of thousands of students one book at a time.”
That they are. In addition to this recent donation to Cannon, they also established a “reading corner” at Jerome D. Mack Middle School and donated more than 500 brand new books, 300 comic books, furniture and $1000 for additional educational supplies. For more information, visit www.readingisthewayup.org.
