Reach Out and Read has been working with Program Coordinators and Coalitions to compile evidence of Reach Out and Read Programs collaborating with their local libraries. Thanks to your input, we’ve created a document filled with examples of partnerships with libraries, as well as suggestions for developing a relationship with your local library and how you can work together on projects such as grants, volunteer training, and book materials...
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Target, one of Reach Out and Read’s longest standing corporate partners, recently awarded us $250,000 in new funding. Since 2003, Target has contributed more than $5 million to Reach Out and Read, and we are incredibly grateful for their continued support of our children and families.

In addition, Target stores have generously supported individual Reach Out and Read Programs over the years. Target Store Grants are currently...MORE

Over the past few months Reach Out and Read has finalized new materials for the Leyendo Juntos (Reading Together) initiative designed to support the over one million Spanish-speaking families Reach Out and Read Programs serve nationwide!

We are excited to announce the translation of over 50% of the Reach Out and Read public website into Spanish! We are hopeful this effort will draw more Spanish-speaking parents and providers to the...
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By bringing on its 18th Reach Out and Read Program, the City of Springfield, Massachusetts has become the most recent and largest Bookend City nationwide. In May, Reach Out and Read and the City of Springfield will host a press conference to celebrate the achievement and present a set of glass block bookends to Mayor Domenic J. Sarno, as well as certificates to each of the 18 participating Reach Out and Read Programs...

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Forty diverse primary care practices in Florida have successfully completed a Reach Out and Read pilot project to develop and apply Quality Improvement (QI) tools and techniques to improve:

• The proportion of well-child visits for children ages 6 months through 5 years who received an age-appropriate book, and

• Whose parents received advice about the...