Reach Out and Read is extraordinarily proud to say that every hour of service and every dollar contributed to ROR makes an impact in the literacy capability and school readiness of the children we serve.

There are dozens of ways that you can support Reach Out and Read's mission today and help ensure that every child arrives at kindergarten ready to read, ready to learn, and ready to succeed.

The single most important thing that you can do is to read to your child every day. It's the most effective strategy for developing critical early reading skills in children and promoting school readiness.

You can also help Reach Out and Read to encourage every other parent in the country to do the same! Click on any of the tabs above to find out how!

Reach Out and Read is enormously grateful for every one of our supporters, as you have enabled us to distribute more than 25 million books since our founding in 1989. Because of your support, ROR today serves 3.8 million children nationwide, including more than 32% of all children living in poverty. Reach Out and Read is confident that, with your continued support, we will one day serve them all.

"Reach Out and Read started as a simple solution to an obvious problem: waiting rooms without books. Reading aloud was important for young children, and pediatricians had a special opportunity to reach their parents. It was a patently good idea. But if it had been nothing more than that, it would have withered away. Instead, ROR has grown, nurtured by the passionate and inspired efforts of many-educators, doctors, volunteers, parents, corporations, foundations, and politicians."