The Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries announced Saipan Southern High School as one of 188 school libraries to receive a grant. The foundation is awarding $1,098,634 in grants for 2010. Saipan Southern High School is the only school in the Northern Marianas to receive a grant from the Foundation.
Saipan Southern High School librarian, Sudi Q. Napalan, is a first time applicant of the grant.
Napalan shares in her application, “I have never witnessed the intense desire for new books and magazines from high school students until I started working in Saipan Southern High School library! This has been my inspiration to give my best in serving the students over the years.”
The Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries was founded in 2002 and since its inception, the Foundation has awarded more than $5.4 million to 1,087 schools in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Marshall Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands and now the Northern Mariana Islands.
Grants are funded through generous donations to the endowment from individuals, corporations and foundations.
The mission of the Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries is to support the education of the nation’s children by providing funds to update, extend and diversify the book and print collections of America’s school libraries. Further information is available at www.laurabushfoundation.org
