2017 Freedom Through Literacy Award
Freedom Through Literacy Award
International
Bi-Coastal Literacy Project
Cracking Open The Universe
Donations: 95 Libraries, 18 Countries, 127,179 books, worth $1,378,067!
Applications have been delivered to the Judges!
The Freedom Through Literacy Award identifies and honors individual champions of literacy from all disciplines around the world.
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Judith’s Reading Room announces its 95th Library in its 18th Country;
The Mukwashi Trust School, near Lusaka, Zambia is the latest recipient of a custom, hand-picked collection of outstanding children’s literature.
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Learn more about Judith's Reading Room's Freedom Through Literacy Award. See past winners and their stories along with photos of the award ceremonies.
Judith's Reading Room
Based in eastern Pennsylvania, we actively support not-for-profit organizations in the northeast region. However, we will serve communities across the United States, in particular, and around the world, in order to spark creativity and imagination by providing outstanding literature.
Judith's Reading Room's mission is to enrich lives and societies by proactively encouraging freedom through literacy
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Judith's Reading Room
If you haven't yet heard -- Selected from a pool of hundreds of applicants nationwide, Judith's Reading Room has been awarded Wells Fargo's TOP Volunteer Service Award of $25,000! Watch Cathy & Scott receive the news here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B57d_bo9IM
Judith's Reading Room
THANK YOU
Today is Giving Tuesday, so we chose to give you thanks.
Today is all about individuals giving back to the community, but we wanted to take this time to thank you for all you have already given to Judith's Reading Room.
Without you, we wouldn't have been able to donate 130 brand new baby board books every month to the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) centers at Hispanic Center Lehigh Valley and Casa Guadalupe in an effort to combat the "30 million word gap," the significant gap of word recognition between low-income and middle-income children, and provide early literacy intervention. While many of us may take our access to books for granted, these children light up at the sight of a new book just for them. Parents are equally excited to be given the materials they need to raise good readers. Their enthusiasm has translated into the collection of thousands of "My Promise to Read/Mi Promisa de Leer," a pledge to read aloud for 20 minutes every day, and the donation of 13,858 books worth $114,034.
Also, without you, we wouldn't have brought books to servicemen and women serving far from home, veterans in care at VA hospitals around the country, and homeless veterans coping with retuning home at shelters such as Steadfast House in North Carolina. Your donations and letters brought the comforts and care of home to all these brave individuals who serve or have served our country. Lastly, without you, we certainly would have never passed the $1,000,000 mark in donated books!
In short, without you, we wouldn't have been able to enrich lives by providing books to those that don't have access to them. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
For more information on all the great work you have made possible or to donate to keep us moving forward, please visit our website at www.judithsreadingroom.org.
All the best this holiday season,
Cathy
Cathy Leiber
President & Co-founder
Today is Giving Tuesday, so we chose to give you thanks.
Today is all about individuals giving back to the community, but we wanted to take this time to thank you for all you have already given to Judith's Reading Room.
Without you, we wouldn't have been able to donate 130 brand new baby board books every month to the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) centers at Hispanic Center Lehigh Valley and Casa Guadalupe in an effort to combat the "30 million word gap," the significant gap of word recognition between low-income and middle-income children, and provide early literacy intervention. While many of us may take our access to books for granted, these children light up at the sight of a new book just for them. Parents are equally excited to be given the materials they need to raise good readers. Their enthusiasm has translated into the collection of thousands of "My Promise to Read/Mi Promisa de Leer," a pledge to read aloud for 20 minutes every day, and the donation of 13,858 books worth $114,034.
Also, without you, we wouldn't have brought books to servicemen and women serving far from home, veterans in care at VA hospitals around the country, and homeless veterans coping with retuning home at shelters such as Steadfast House in North Carolina. Your donations and letters brought the comforts and care of home to all these brave individuals who serve or have served our country. Lastly, without you, we certainly would have never passed the $1,000,000 mark in donated books!
In short, without you, we wouldn't have been able to enrich lives by providing books to those that don't have access to them. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
For more information on all the great work you have made possible or to donate to keep us moving forward, please visit our website at www.judithsreadingroom.org.
All the best this holiday season,
Cathy
Cathy Leiber
President & Co-founder