Reach Out and Read

56 Roland Street, Suite 100D Boston, MA 02129-1243
Contact:
Reach Out and Read National Center 617-455-0600 and info@reachoutandread.org
Reach Out and Read Greater Philadelphia  215-590-5989 and info@rorgp.org

Reach Out and Read is an evidence-based national nonprofit organization that promotes early literacy and school readiness, with a special emphasis on children growing up in low-income communities. Reach Out and Read takes place at 5,000 primary care health centers across the nation.  In pediatric exam rooms during well visits, primary care physicians and nurse practitioners incorporate Reach Out and Read’s evidence-based model by advising parents about the importance of reading aloud and giving brand-new, developmentally and culturally appropriate books to children ages 6 months through 5 years.

For your mitzvah project, Reach Out and Read provides many opportunities for you to help:
Fundraisers
Every Reach Out and Read site (a primary care health center) in the nation has to raise funds to sustain and maintain its Reach Out and Read program.  Your fundraiser can help Reach Out and Read sites purchase at a great discount appropriate books for children ages 6 months through 5 years (average cost per book is $2.75). Donors in the past have had success encouraging families, groups and individuals to sponsor a child by donating Reach Out and Read costs for a child.
Book Drives
This is a great way for individuals, community organizations, children and adolescents to involve themselves in helping others, and book drives are fun to do.   Please contact a Reach Out and Read site in your region to ask what the site may need and to learn about book delivery/site visit guidelines.

For more information about Reach Out and Read Greater Philadelphia (more than 45 Reach Out and Read sites in Southeastern PA), please visit www.rorgp.org and email info@rorgp.org.

For more information about The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Reach Out and Read program, please visit www.chop.edu/reachoutandread and email ReachOutandRead@email.chop.edu.

For more information about Reach Out and Read in all 50 states, please visit www.reachoutandread.org and email info@reachoutandread.org.