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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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(Fox Tampa Bay) Read Across America day promotes health benefits of reading to kids. Watch the full story on Fox Tampa Bay here. (Image Courtesy of Fox Tampa Bay)
Chosen from a pool of more than 2,000 entries, the #RORPodcast has won Silver in the Health category for the 2nd Annual Anthem Awards. At Reach Out and Read, we dream of a world in which every child is read to every day. The podcast focuses on the belief that reading aloud with children helps […]
Johnnetta comes to Reach Out and Read with a distinguished career that includes nonprofit, education, and public health sector experience. She held leadership and teaching positions of increasing responsibility and complexity for nearly two decades. As a result, she brings a wealth of knowledge to her new role, which includes strategic leadership, quality management, project […]
Announcing the release of an OpEd The Risks and Rewards of Sharing Power With Your Community, in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, documenting an approach taken by the Early Relational Health Coordinating Hub to “ensure that community members are given opportunities for participation and decision making equal to the so-called traditional experts.” Reach Out and Read […]
Native Americans have endured a history of violence and displacement. That history helped drive American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) children today to have the lowest high school graduation rates and college entry rates of any minority group in the U.S. The delivery of Reach Out and Read at our 222 AI/AN medical sites (where we serve […]