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Reach Out and Read Announces Plan to Serve 10 Million Children by 2030
The nonprofit’s new strategic plan outlines a goal to reach half of U.S. kids under 5, focused on under-resourced areas Reach Out and Read, a national nonprofit that fosters parent relationships through shared reading, announced today a new growth plan, focused on more than doubling its reach, to serve 10 million children by 2030. Its […]
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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 […]
Reach Out and Read and Scholastic are proud to announce this year’s Judy Newman Book Award will be I Am Enough by Grace Byers. The annual award highlights one book that resonates with families and encourages them to read aloud together. I Am Enough is a beautifully written and illustrated book that promotes the message […]