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Reach Out and Read National Receives Record $6M Donation from Valhalla Foundation
The grant will help the nonprofit further its evidence-based early childhood development program, which uses shared reading to support early literacy and healthy relationships. Reach Out and Read, a national nonprofit leading the charge in promoting early literacy and healthy early relationships through pediatric care, today announced the second-largest grant in the organization’s 35-year history. […]
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UNICEF has produced a 10-part special podcast series on “The Future of Childhood” – to mark the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In this episode, Sarah Crowe, speaks to Reach Out and Read’s National Medical Director, Dr. Perri Klass on pediatrics. Perri Klass, MD has been writing as a […]
Time Magazine interviewed one of our favorite authors, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof on his newly released book, ‘Tightrope’. Mr. Kristof and co-author Sheryl WuDunn report on the despair that many middle-class Americans have experienced over the past several decades. Their reporting is wide-spread across the United States and despite the bleak outcome for […]
Study Finds that Reach Out and Read Enhances Clinic Morale, Increase Provider Satisfaction, and Improve Patient-Clinician Relationships A new Wisconsin Medical Journal study published by Dr. Heather Burton and Dr. Dipesh Navsaria found that Reach Out and Read helped enhance clinic morale, increase provider satisfaction, and improve patient-clinician relationships in 10 study clinics. Compared to clinicians in […]
If you find yourself in the Dane County Regional Airport, Wisconsin with children, make sure to try the sleek new kiosk that dispenses short stories for young travelers. Children will love the walk up dispenser that holds more than 10,000 stories and is absolutely FREE to the user. Reach Out and Read Wisconsin Medical Director […]
Reach Out and Read is a proud recipient of New York Times columnist and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Nick Kristof’s Holiday Impact Prize! We are grateful to Nick Kristof for honoring us as we approach #GivingTuesday. His journalism has had an immense impact around the globe. Two years ago, we set an ambitious goal of reaching […]