New Harvest Foundation: Calling Wisconsin Educators!
Delilah Delgado
The New Harvest Foundation, founded in 1984, provides donations to organizations that work to champion the LGBTQIA+ community in Wisconsin. The foundation raises money from the broader community through events and campaigns in order to fund charitable contributions to groups working towards the promotion of LGBTQIA+ community development, rights, and culture in Wisconsin. PLP has currently sent over 1,000 books to more than 500 teachers in 52 cities across all of Wisconsin, making it our leading request state of all time—due in large part to the generosity and support of the New Harvest Foundation.
In 2021, PLP was awarded our first New Harvest Foundation grant. This grant allowed us to send around 400 books to 150 Wisconsin teachers, and it provided an opportunity to hear directly from those teachers about the support they require in order to create inclusive classroom environments. The grant enabled us to send materials to 27 different counties across Wisconsin.
This school year, the New Harvest Foundation has generously awarded us another grant of $10,000 for our project Read Out Proud Wisconsin. This money will allow us to send an additional 800 LGBTQ-inclusive books to 400 more teachers in Wisconsin. That’s about 8,000 students served across the whole state just this year—imagine how many students these books will impact as they remain in classrooms and libraries year after year.
Since receiving this year’s grant, we are already nearing the halfway point of our 800 book goal, and with your help, we hope to achieve it soon! If you know an educator from Wisconsin that has not yet requested PLP books, please spread the word. We’d also like to extend a thank you to the Madison Reading Project for sharing PLP’s mission and impact via their newsletter. We appreciate your support in getting the word out to Wisconsin teachers!
