tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15517367609583765742024-02-07T21:47:29.390-05:00Reader To ReaderBased on the campus of Amherst College, Reader To Reader, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) public charity dedicated to bringing books, free of charge, to needy school libraries and public libraries across the United States.Reader2Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286367110411783671noreply@blogger.comBlogger666125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1551736760958376574.post-30384743720966295292021-10-05T10:45:00.000-04:002021-10-05T10:45:46.541-04:00Teaching College Readiness on the Navajo Nation<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJr7-nrpysXLZLtrYBor7VxbIb4ojltB0RwNwAYMxZ0P0zhVT7oRnHK_Hm2-sOBDpWDY2ETZPyHqf3etme-YbDM5yHlQA8iy00HtICm-tXnOyu8B8srGVdU4tWLizOS8aLs0W5eyeNKTw/s2048/IMG-0955.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJr7-nrpysXLZLtrYBor7VxbIb4ojltB0RwNwAYMxZ0P0zhVT7oRnHK_Hm2-sOBDpWDY2ETZPyHqf3etme-YbDM5yHlQA8iy00HtICm-tXnOyu8B8srGVdU4tWLizOS8aLs0W5eyeNKTw/s320/IMG-0955.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><p>We are delighted to add Eran Hornick to our team. Eran is spending the year at Wingate High in Fort Wingate, NM, where he is working with juniors and seniors on college readiness.</p></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: OpenSansRegular, Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Reader to Reader's Blueprint for Success program works with high school students to explore their college options, prepare for standardized tests, and get a head start on their college applications. This multi-faceted program promotes not only preparedness but a deeper understanding of college life, academics, and finding the right school, showing them that college is a real and tangible option.</span></p>Reader2Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286367110411783671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1551736760958376574.post-73409629919726356092021-03-01T10:00:00.002-05:002021-03-01T10:00:41.815-05:00Reader to Reader Donates $70,000 Worth of Books to Springfield Schools<p> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – The Amherst organization Reader to Reader donated $70,000 worth of books to Springfield Schools according to Founder and Executive Director David Mazor.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The global literacy organization based in Amherst donated over 7,000 new children’s books to the Springfield Public Schools.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“We are very excited to be able to make a donation of this magnitude, with the COVID-19 pandemic limiting children’s in-school time, it is all the more important to get books into their homes,” said Mazor.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The books with a value of over $70,000 are part of the American Girl series and were made possible by American Girl Publishing.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Springfield Public Schools is thrilled to accept this donation of books that have main characters that are inclusive of different races and cultures. It’s so important for our students to see themselves in books,” said Dan Warwick, Superintendent of Springfield Public Schools.</span></p><div class="nlp-ignore-block article-content rich-text" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><aside class="promo-link" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0.9375rem 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">American Girl’s character books feature historical fiction that teaches history, traditions, and values in order to educate and entertain.</span></aside></div><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Each story is told in six compelling books that focus on family, school, holiday, birthday, summer, and winter adventures.</span></p>Reader2Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286367110411783671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1551736760958376574.post-12903951052717283472021-01-26T12:05:00.000-05:002021-01-26T12:05:17.363-05:00American Girl Donates Half a Million Dollars Worth of Books to Reader to Reader<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg49Hp4j8Kwh33SyT_Cz2Tltek7d3_-RFWbgVjZof8qdSyBlvYwdBWQYJhiVHXgpWrKy_eAQreYicUHAOWwEapwJ8bX2C5CDQYL00mhqFzw6vSEc1Kc230erLNTuyrq9lnduCG-qugKlTg/s2000/L_NP_CORP_16029_147.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1333" data-original-width="2000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg49Hp4j8Kwh33SyT_Cz2Tltek7d3_-RFWbgVjZof8qdSyBlvYwdBWQYJhiVHXgpWrKy_eAQreYicUHAOWwEapwJ8bX2C5CDQYL00mhqFzw6vSEc1Kc230erLNTuyrq9lnduCG-qugKlTg/s320/L_NP_CORP_16029_147.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Reader to Reader is delighted to announce that we are receiving
a donation of half a million dollars worth of books from American Girl to give
out to schools, public libraries and community organizations.</span></span><p></p>
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Executive Director, said. “This amazingly generous donation will benefit
children across the United States. This is such a positive boost for
communities that have been hard hit by Covid-19. There will be so many smiles,
so much laughter, and a great deal of adventure and sense of wonder because of
American Girl’s generosity.”</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/americangirl?__eep__=6&__cft__%5b0%5d=AZWFxYPW5pn2JkqVTJAu0v_7D0xoioxz-FiWORHbm7o7wcCdYqcJrLk7V1Su8y6z3mVBK-bv7Ax7b4bhhmeMECovhe1-2qAEQu-30T9dzDylQ-7cg6c1TJdjed-CJa-oZzRFSRsw7EBryyDqKKacVv5-IeBDEuQX932USFgkRL7PSu4j9yi52SXKOLCU8k3uxK4&__tn__=*NK-R"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: blue; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">#americangirl</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>Reader2Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286367110411783671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1551736760958376574.post-75259036667223155302020-10-28T09:41:00.000-04:002020-10-28T09:41:12.126-04:00New Community Library Opens In The Philippines<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHYyXcZeZabP5psHs72m1nzoEhyphenhyphenqW3s6QW7EsKRgfQ2lyEDD8k9VmeZIa-6JHN4BYyZtRzzHXoc0vYxi52Nk1cjlbH0cLV-mE79aA-9FhR-dFgLQbETp4QJ0ZVbqflgBWoBqCyVJ5Wde4/s2048/20201009_041726.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHYyXcZeZabP5psHs72m1nzoEhyphenhyphenqW3s6QW7EsKRgfQ2lyEDD8k9VmeZIa-6JHN4BYyZtRzzHXoc0vYxi52Nk1cjlbH0cLV-mE79aA-9FhR-dFgLQbETp4QJ0ZVbqflgBWoBqCyVJ5Wde4/s320/20201009_041726.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">Despite the challenges posed by typhoons, the Taal volcano eruption, and Covid, a new community library has opened its doors in a village near Lipa, Philippines.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">We are delighted to have contributed a wide assortment of books to this wonderful project, and look forward to contributing many more.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The library is the brainchild of retired librarian Peter Mazzei, and his hard work, and that of so many others, has paid off.</div></div><br /><p></p>Reader2Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286367110411783671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1551736760958376574.post-49350165565884325902020-07-24T09:34:00.000-04:002020-07-24T09:34:09.313-04:00Erla Sagg: A Reader to Reader Success Story!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"I feel like the Reader to Reader - Read, Think, Share Program was the start of something I like to call 'multidimensional consciousness,'" says Erla Sagg, an alum of our Read, Think, Share program in Navajo, New Mexico. Erla is now membership coordinator for the National American Indian Housing Council (NAIHC).<br /><br />Erla is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. Erla comes from the Hardrock and Big Mountain community on the Arizona side of the Navajo Nation. She represents the Ta'neeszahnii (Tangle clan) and is born for the Bitahnii (Folded arms clan). Her maternal grandfathers are of the Naakai Dine'e (wandering people) and paternal grandfathers are the Ashihii (Salt clan).<br /><br />"Before I was in the Reader to Reader's - Read, Think, Share Program, I was unaware of the world outside of the classroom and the small community of Navajo, New Mexico, Sagg explains. "I had general knowledge on topics like the Holocaust and genocide occurring in Africa, because these were brought up in history class. I was not aware that my own community, and country had and continues to also be a place of genocide and systematic oppression. It wasn't until I read<i> Indian Killer</i> by Sherman Alexie that I had an awakening of reality. This was one of the first books I picked up while in the program, and I remember sitting in the library, realizing that many of us were facing the same thing. Some of us were having identity crises, facing federal coercion, fighting assimilation, unknowingly angered about generational traumas, or simply not doing anything because we had feelings of exclusion from our communities. Aside from the mysterious murders and underlying behavioral health issues the lead character might've had, this book helped me realize that we can be the answer to change. This program showed me that books had the answers to the questions I had about why people were the way they were. Joining the Reader to Reader's program, gave me the ability to critically comprehend societal behaviors and atrocities happening to American Indian people, while many of my peers were interested in the latest shoes and mainstream music.<br /><br />After attending Navajo Pine High school, I began reading: <i>Crazy Horse and Custer </i>by Stephen E. Ambrose;<i> God is Red</i> by Vine Deloria Jr.; and <i>Ojibwe Warrior</i> by Dennis Banks. Some of these books were sent to me, from the Reader to Reader Program after leaving Navajo Pine. I can remember feeling the encouragement and motivation when I returned home for the weekend, and I had a big box of books waiting for me. If it wasn't for that box of books that had been provided to me, I feel that I would have slipped slowly into madness. I wanted to become part of the change! At 14 years of age, I wanted to become part of Indigenous survivance.<br /><br />Today, my bookshelves hold books from authors like Gregory Cajete and Raymond Austin. If it wasn't for this program, I don't know where I would be in life."<br /><br />After her freshman year at Navajo Pine High School, Erla attended Greyhills Academy High School in Tuba City, Arizona. In May of 2011, she graduated at the top of her class with a 3.98 GPA. Erla received a Presidential Scholarship from Utah State University, where she graduated with an Associates of Science and a Certificate of Completion for the License of Practical Nursing Program. After deciding to change her major from Environmental Chemistry, Erla was accepted to the Native American Studies Department at the University of New Mexico.<br /><br />In the early parts of 2018, Erla was one of thirteen participants in the Native American Political Leadership Program with George Washington University. She was also one of two Richard M. Milanovich Fellows for this program. In December of 2018, Erla graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Native American Studies with a focus in Leadership and Building Native Nations and a minor in Psychology.<br /><br />Today, Erla is a graduate student at UNM with a focus in Indigenous Leadership, Self-Determination, and Sustainable Community Building. With a 4.0 GPA, Erla is also working as a Membership Coordinator with the National American Indian Housing Council (NAIHC) located in Washington, DC. NAIHC is a not-for-profit organization which seeks to effectively and efficiently promote and support American Indians, Alaska Native and native Hawaiians in their self-determined goal to provide culturally relevant and quality affordable housing for native people. Along with eight other team members, Erla provides tribes and Tribally Designated Housing Entities with up-to-date information on grants, trainings, and federal policies such as the Native American Housing and Self-Determination Act (NAHASDA). NAIHC also provides advocacy efforts for increased allocation funding like Indian Housing Block Grant, Veterans Affairs, and Indian Community Development Block Grant funding.<br /><br />Erla's goal is to attend Stanford University Law School. She also wishes to pursue a career deeply focused with federal Indian policy and creating change tribal youth across Indian country.Reader2Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286367110411783671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1551736760958376574.post-34775469466239582202020-05-19T10:48:00.002-04:002020-05-19T10:48:48.676-04:00Children's Books Arrive in Barbados<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A shipment of children’s books have arrived in Barbados. The books are a product of a Reader to Reader book drive held by the School Leadership Team of PS 54 - Samuel C. Barnes School in Brooklyn,New York.<br />
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Bayleys Primary School is
converting an old music/storage room into the school’s first library and
we are pleased to lend a hand.<br />
<br />Reader2Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286367110411783671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1551736760958376574.post-56727887981255256742020-02-28T12:10:00.000-05:002020-02-28T12:10:00.935-05:00It’s Reader to Reader’s Field Trip Season!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Students from Alfred G. Zanetti Montessori Magnet School, in Springfield, Massachusetts, helped us kick off the start of our annual field trips to Reader to Reader.<br />
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Each spring, students that are participating in our <i>Read, Think, Share</i> mentoring program spend a day exploring college life at Amherst College, the home of Reader to Reader.<br />
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The students tour the campus, including exploring the Beneski Museum of Natural History, one of New England's largest natural history museums.<br />
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They are escorted on their campus tour by their <i>Read, Think, Share</i> college student reading mentors.<br />
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A fun day is had by all.<br />
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Reader2Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286367110411783671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1551736760958376574.post-39792234011132343502020-01-15T14:25:00.001-05:002020-01-15T14:25:22.038-05:00Reader to Reader Donates Computers to Boys & Girls Club<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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computers, tablets and e-readers, and refurbished Dell and Apple computers to
schools and outreach programs with a strong need for access to technology.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Reader2Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286367110411783671noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1551736760958376574.post-11671166304905854192019-11-08T13:27:00.000-05:002019-11-08T13:27:11.966-05:00Thousand of Books for New Community Center in Ghana<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thousands of books from Reader to Reader are on their way to Ghana, to fill the shelves at a new community center in Accra.<br />
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Reader to Reader supports literacy projects in 23 countries.Reader2Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286367110411783671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1551736760958376574.post-55083447249308529912019-09-16T06:25:00.000-04:002019-11-08T13:28:09.087-05:00Computers Donated to Uganda Health Organization<br />
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small all-volunteer organization that engages members of the local community
who have suffered through 20 years of war with the Lord's Resistance Army to
rebuild their community, to heal from the trauma of war and poverty and to
develop the capacity of its medical providers to prevent and reduce infant and
maternal mortality. The organization is located in an impoverished region with
few resources and many threats to health and well-being, such as malaria, dysentery,
dengue fever. The computers are being used by local health workers to access
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This is the tenth year of our huge book donation event, and it gets bigger every year.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Thank you to our generous partners: Scholastic Book Fairs,</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">and Jumping Cow Press.</span>Reader2Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286367110411783671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1551736760958376574.post-71364128193092136912019-04-12T10:55:00.001-04:002019-04-12T10:55:54.755-04:00Thousands of Books for a Big Book Giveaway<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thousands of books are arriving weekly from leading publishers as we gear up for our annual Spring Book Extravaganza.<br />
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Each year at our Spring Book Extravaganza we give out tens of thousands of new children's and young adult books to schools in the Springfield, Massachusetts area.<br />
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This multi-day event has given out millions-of-dollars-worth of books over the decade we have been holding it, and it gets bigger every year!<br />
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Reader2Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286367110411783671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1551736760958376574.post-75515095163993543512019-03-22T13:39:00.000-04:002019-03-22T13:39:53.935-04:00Giving Out Books by the Thousands in Chicago<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Thanks for getting these books into the hands of our students!"<br />
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That's what all of us at Reader to Reader love to hear! It means we are doing our job.<br />
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This winter we have been doing that job in Chicago. Over 1,400 teachers were in attendance at the Ready, Set, Teach event at McCormick Place, as we gave out 40,672 new children's and young adult books for children and teens that attend the Chicago Public schools.<br />
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The donation was the start of our major new initiative focusing on inner-city schools in Chicago.<br />
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"Thank you for thinking of our students and teachers at Chicago Public Schools," Shannon Babcock, Executive Director of External Affairs and Partnerships at Chicago Public Schools, said.<br />
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A very big thank you to #scholasticbookfairs, #TumblehomeLearn for their generous donations.<br />
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And thank you to Marmon Holdings, Inc., a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., for their sponsorship of this donation.<br />
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Reader to Reader, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to expanding literacy and learning opportunities for the nation's most chronically underserved and vulnerable communities, including inner-city schools, Native American reservations, and poor rural towns. We donate books, computer and school supplies, and run innovative literacy programs.Reader2Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286367110411783671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1551736760958376574.post-54095236433711014292019-02-21T13:41:00.000-05:002019-02-21T13:41:15.503-05:00Reader to Reader Donates 40,672 Books for Children in Chicago<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Reader to Reader is pleased to announce Reader to Reader's donation of 40,672 new children's and young adult books to children and teens attending the Chicago public schools. </div>
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The donation kicks off our major new initiative focusing on inner-city schools in Chicago.<br />
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We look forward to donating tens of thousands of books a year for many years to come.<br />
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A very big thank you to #scholasticbookfairs, #TumblehomeLearn for their generous donations.<br />
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And thank you to Marmon Holdings, Inc., a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., for their sponsorship of this event.Reader2Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286367110411783671noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1551736760958376574.post-11710906695591604512019-01-25T08:16:00.000-05:002019-01-25T08:16:35.577-05:00Reader to Reader Launches Vermont Public Libraries Initiative<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reader to Reader is pleased to announce our new statewide initiative for Vermont public libraries. We look forward to donating many thousands of books in the coming years.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is Jason Broughton, State Librarian for the State of Vermont, with some of the books from our first donation.</span>Reader2Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286367110411783671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1551736760958376574.post-55662828714381508772018-12-14T11:21:00.000-05:002018-12-14T12:50:26.748-05:00Books & New Children's Coats Makes a Warm Gift<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">This holiday season, Reader to Reader is delighted to donate new books, toys and children's coats to the Amherst Survival Center in Amherst, Mass.</span></div>
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We purchased a large supply of toys and new coats for children to make their holidays extra special this year.</div>
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We love to spread the joy of reading, and what better way to do it than with a new book and a new coat!</div>
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Blessed Ngoma is working to open a community center in Zambia, and we are delighted to help with the project. </div>
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<br />We are donating laptops, books, puzzles, games and even a laptop projector.</div>
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Blessed Ngoma is graduate student at the University of Massachusetts and works as a Permanency Coordinator at Becket Family of Services in Brattleboro, Vermont. </div>
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He is working with his friends back in his native Zambia to open the center in early 2019.</div>
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Laptops are on their way to villages in Bolivia, Ecuador and Zambia, all courtesy of Reader to Reader's computer donation program.<br />
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The laptops heading to Ecuador are being hand-carried by high school students that are spending their year studying abroad.<br />
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The laptops for Bolivia arrived earlier this summer. Here is a family in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, enjoying their laptop donated by Reader to Reader.<br />
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Our laptop donations to Bolivia included three laptops to Parque Machía, a wildlife sanctuary.<br />
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And Blessed Ngoma is working to open a community center in Zambia, so we are donating laptops, books, puzzles, games and even a laptop projector.Reader2Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286367110411783671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1551736760958376574.post-45003646951098262472018-08-23T12:37:00.002-04:002018-10-01T10:41:22.501-04:00Mountain of Books & Computers Heading to the Navajo Nation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Blistering 90-degree heat and stifling humidity couldn't stop our latest shipment to the Navajo Nation in Arizona.<br />
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More than 400 boxes of books, 31 Dell PCs, and 9 iMacs are on their way to the Navajo Nation Library in Window Rock, Arizona.<br />
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The books will fill shelves at the Navajo Nation Library and its branch libraries in Kayenta, Arizona, and Crownpoint, New Mexico.<br />
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In addition, books and computers are being donated to the Red Mesa High School in Teec Nos Pos, Arizona, and St. Michael Indian School in St. Michaels, Arizona.<br />
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Over the past decade, Reader to Reader's Navajo Nation Book Drive has donated over 200,000 books, and hundreds of computers to libraries and schools on the 27,000-square-mile Navajo Nation.<br />
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Our annual Spring Book Extravaganza, which is now in its ninth year, gave out over 22,000 new children’s and young adult books.<br />
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The books were provided by a number of leading publishers, including Scholastic Book Fairs, and Pioneer Valley Press.<br />
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The total value of the donated books exceeded $350,000.<br />
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Librarians, teachers and staff from a host of schools in Springfield, Chicopee, Holyoke, South Hadley, Sunderland, and West Springfield loaded up their cars, vans and pickup trucks until they could hold no more.<br />
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"There were teachers lines up ready to go when the doors opened for the three-day event,” David Mazor, executive director of Reader to Reader, said. “It’s always a very joyous event, as so many teachers are starved for resources for their schools. To be able to provide it for free is something we are proud to have done for almost a decade.”<br />
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A special thank you to the Chicopee Savings Bank Charitable Foundation for their sponsorship of this event.Reader2Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286367110411783671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1551736760958376574.post-67051241489831394562018-06-21T10:22:00.000-04:002018-06-21T10:26:19.470-04:00Athena Program Creates Dynamic Learning Environment for Young Mothers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Collins cooked us breakfast and lunch, showing the mothers sample menus and
illustrating the health and cost benefits of home-cooked meals as opposed to
fast food options. Chef Bill also demonstrated cooking skills, such as carving
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activities during the week was helping the mothers make picture books for their
children. They filled their books with pictures of their children and quotes,
and wrote heartfelt messages to read to their children. As they worked, they
relayed stories about their experiences with pregnancy and childbirth,
including all the joys and pains of motherhood. The moms also showed off
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also led a spoken word poetry workshop with all of the moms where they wrote
poems that spoke to their experiences as mothers and with their families. On
Tuesday, we went to record the poems that the moms wrote at Northfire Recording
Studio in Amherst. While there, the studio’s power went out, interrupting our
session, but fortunately, we were able to go back on Wednesday to finish all of
the recordings. On the final day of the Athena Program, we went to the Care
Center and played the finished recordings of the mothers’ poems for them and
their classmates, to celebrate the great work they did this week, all while
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highlights was a financial literacy workshop that was presented by Florence
Bank. The mothers learned about budgeting, credit-ratings, and how to manage a debit
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lots of delicious food—w</span>e had a lot of fun, and can’t wait to create
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Reader2Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286367110411783671noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1551736760958376574.post-58832441997927091742018-06-11T12:30:00.001-04:002018-06-19T15:32:07.387-04:00Reader to Reader Donates $300,000-Worth of Books to Springfield-Area Schools<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Reader to Reader, a global literacy organization based in Amherst, Massachusetts, is giving away tens of thousands of new children’s books to schools and outreach programs in the Springfield, Massachusetts-area.<br />
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The organization’s Spring Book Extravaganza is donating 22,000 books valued at over $300,000.<br />
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The annual event is in its eighth year, and hundreds of boxes of books line the walls at the Chicopee Public Schools Maintenance Department waiting for teachers to pick out what they need for their classrooms.<br />
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Chicopee Public Schools serves as the host site of the event each year, and teachers fill cars, vans and trucks with mountains of books.<br />
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The books are brand new and are available to schools in Springfield, Holyoke, Chicopee and West Springfield. The books span a wide range of ages and interests and include grade levels pre-K to 12.<br />
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“It’s an exciting event,” David Mazor, Reader to Reader’s founder. “There were teachers, principals and administrators lined up at the door when we opened at 9:00am!”<br />
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David Mazor, Reader to Reader’s founder, adds that "these books are part of our ongoing support for the Reading Success by 4th Grade Initiative. Increased access to books is a key factor in raising literacy rates."<br />
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Reader to Reader’s book donations draw praise from teachers and school administrators.<br />
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“The books we picked out today are unbelievable!” Margaret Betts, librarian at Maple Elementary in Easthampton, said. “It is an amazing bookfair. Thank you so much for supporting our school in this way. We are lucky to have Reader to Reader partnering with us!"<br />
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The event is sponsored by the Chicopee Savings Bank Foundation. Donating publishers include Scholastic Books Fairs, Pioneer Valley Press, and Home Grown Books.Reader2Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286367110411783671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1551736760958376574.post-23989762683748855052018-05-02T11:30:00.000-04:002018-05-02T11:30:39.206-04:00$120,000 in New Books for Hurricane Harvey Relief in Houston<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our Hurricane Harvey relief efforts continue. More than 8,000 new books for children and young adult readers will be given out by the Houston Independent School District.<br />
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The books have a value of $120,000.<br />
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Thank you to Scholastic Book Fairs for making this donation possible!Reader2Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286367110411783671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1551736760958376574.post-3175411350720219802018-04-13T14:16:00.001-04:002018-04-13T14:16:39.513-04:006,000 Books for Children in Bridgeport, CT<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thank you to all the book donors and the great WRSI Radio team for making our 2018 "Fill the Book Bus" event a success!<br />
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We collected over 6,000 thousand children's books that are going to children in Bridgeport, Connecticut.<br />
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For the past decade, Reader to Reader’s Bridgeport Literacy Initiative has donated tens of thousands of new and used books to the children of Bridgeport.<br />
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