Partner - Reach Out and Read

Reach Out and Read is the only organization working directly with pediatric medical providers to share the lifelong benefits that result from families reading aloud to their children every day. By reaching children during the critical early years, we can combat the effects of inequality, so that family income, race, and geography are no longer predictors of kindergarten readiness, school, and life success. To find out more about partnering with us in your region, write to us at development@reachoutandread.org

Why Reach Out and Read?

No other early literacy program has our impact, scale, reach, and evidence base. We are a national network of more than 34,000 pediatric medical providers at 6,400 clinical locations in all 50 states, and our model has the potential to reach 91% of all children in the United States through well-child visits, beginning at birth.

Learn How You Can Partner With Us

Host a Virtual Book Drive

Help us provide high-quality inclusive and diverse children’s books that are so important for pediatric clinicians to share with their patients and families in combating the public health crises of racism and poverty.

Host Your Own Virtual Book Drive

Help Families In Your Neighborhood

Because we work within the pre-existing medical system, we excel at providing our early literacy prescription to traditionally hard to reach populations.

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Corporate and Employee Engagement

We can work with you to set up payroll giving, employer matching gifts, point of sale campaigns, and more. We are committed to working with you to create a mutually beneficial program that can be customized to meet your specific needs.

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We are the only national pediatric literacy model endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

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Working Together for Young Children

All About Books: High-Quality Children’s Books

For over 10 years, All About Books has supported the work of Reach Out and Read as a preferred vendor of early childhood literature. Deeply committed to providing the highest quality of service to our network all the while staying cognizant of our programs’ changing needs, they ensure that the children we serve receive books of the highest quality.

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BAE Systems: Military Families

BAE has partnered with Reach Out and Read for over ten years, as part of their commitment to military members and their families. BAE’s partnership has been instrumental in meeting the unique needs of our military families who face distinctive social and emotional challenges, including frequent moves, deployments, and other separations, and the physical, emotional, and psychological consequences of serving in combat and other highly difficult environments. For military families, the act of reading together not only enriches children’s language skills but also improves emotional bonding, promotes resilience, and mitigates toxic stress. BAE supports our early literacy program on nearly 80 military bases across the country.

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Boise Paper: Website & Podcast

As part of their Paper with Purpose commitment to sustainability, Boise Paper looks for opportunities to give back to the communities their employees and customers call home. In 2019, Boise Paper partnered with local Reach Out and Read affiliates across the country to sponsor book drives and raise awareness of the program in underserved communities. Boise Paper also generously partnered with us on the re-design of our website and sponsors our podcast.

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Heising-Simons Foundation: Early Math/STEM

Since 2014, the Heising-Simons Foundation has invested in our Early Math Initiative to foster foundational math skills and intentionally incorporate the promotion of “math talk” into the Reach Out and Read intervention. While Reach Out and Read has historically focused on promoting foundational literacy skills, growing evidence also supports the importance of early math skills. Research has shown that very young children naturally learn and apply math concepts such as counting, comparison, and causality. With generous Foundation support, Reach Out and Read created, tested, and revised a set of early math materials and training for providers and is now preparing for nationwide rollout.

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KAPPA PSI: Books and Program Delivery

Reach Out and Read is thrilled to be a philanthropic partner of Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity, the oldest and largest pharmaceutical fraternity in the United States. Over the past year, the members of Kappa Psi have helped Reach Out and Read’s medical providers prescribe reading aloud to children and families across the country.

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NCR Foundation: Developmental Disabilities

NCR Foundation has supported our Understanding Developmental Disabilities Initiative to enhance the way we meet the early literacy needs of families with children who have disabilities. With support from the Foundation, Reach Out and Read piloted, evaluated, revised, and began the national rollout of our Development Disabilities promotion guide and training to support families with children who have Visual Impairments, Hearing Loss, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Speech and Language Delays, Learning Style Differences, Developmental Delays, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Motor Delays.

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Scholastic: High-Quality Children’s Books

Scholastic has been a proud partner of Reach Out and Read for more than twenty years. As President and CEO of Scholastic, Dick Robinson helped to create national recognition of the importance of early literacy and books in the lives of young children and, under his leadership, Scholastic became the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books. In 1997, Dick Robinson initiated a partnership between Scholastic and Reach Out and Read to help ensure that books and reading are a part of every child’s life. Scholastic is deeply committed to the idea that children are better prepared for success when caring adults in their lives read to them, starting at a very young age. Over the years, Scholastic has donated millions of books to the Reach Out and Read program.

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