Brief

Public Service Center outreach:The Cornell Public Service Center (PSC) has been awarded a $3,500 grant to purchase 1,400 new books for local children in need. The funding will support the Raising Education Attainment Challenge (REACH) Program that provides academic support to hundreds of children every year. First Book, a D.C.-based nonprofit organization that has given more than 20 million books to low-income children, awarded the grant request. The national organization has a student chapter that worked with Kandea Mosley, PSC's coordinator of K-12 outreach, on the project. Mosley said REACH staff and student leaders were eager to begin ordering and distributing books. The REACH program partners with 15 in-school and after-school sites in the greater Ithaca area that may be eligible for books. "The grant is another boost to our efforts to provide more educational resources to low-income students," Mosley said.