Join us for our third annual Read Romp + Rock event on Friday, March 7, 2008 at the Roxy nightclub in Boston. Proceeds from the event support our mission to make a love of books and reading part of every healthy childhood.

Last year we welcomed nearly 350 friends, supporters, and fans to the Opera House where guests danced onstage and helped us to raise close to $400,000 for ROR.                  MORE

Reach Out and Read Receives Fast Company's Social Capitalist Award

In December, Fast Company Magazine and the Monitor Group named Reach Out and Read as one of the winners of their fifth annual Social Capitalist Award. The award recognizes outstanding performance by entrepreneurial organizations in the non-profit sector, and honors our work putting books into the hands of children who need them the most.                                                 MORE

For the third year, Reach Out and Read and Sovereign Bank celebrated the holiday season together with a book drive to benefit children in need. The book drive offered Sovereign customers in communities throughout the Northeast the opportunity to make brand-new books available to kids who participate in ROR. This year, Sovereign Bank and its customers...                    MORE

For the fourth year "running," the Reach Out and Read National Center is delighted to receive three charity race numbers for the Boston Marathon from a generous corporate donor. We have assembled a team of dedicated runners to represent our mission of making literacy promotion a standard part of pediatric care on Patriots Day, April 21st, when they will participate in the Boston Marathon's 26.2 mile run!
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More than 400 guests gathered on November 4, 2007, to celebrate Reach Out and Read's fourth annual Read and Romp at the Seaport Hotel. The Read and Romp committee, co-chaired by Cara Ahola, Holly Bonomo, and Kirke Hall, transformed the Grand Ballroom into a whimsical celebration of favorite children's stories. With returning favorites Bebop Express and The Runaway Bunny, as well as new books including...                     MORE