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Fall is the time that childcare centers, preschools, and family childcare providers across the counties refresh and relaunch their Raising A Reader programs. The most important thing they need, of course, are new books for the red book bags that go home every week to the families! The Raising A Reader team depends on volunteers [...]
Love books? Love kids? Love to help kids get great Raising A Reader books? Volunteer for Raising A Reader! If you’re available Saturday August, 28th you can help sort and pack Raising A Reader books and other materials for our wonderful Raising A Reader families. Raising A Reader is a take-home book bag program, which successfully [...]
The first few years of a child’s life are so important, and it has been said that 90% of the brain’s growth occurs from ages zero to five. With the help of partners across the Bay Area, United Way is working both directly with children to boost their reading skills and learning potential; as well [...]
Love books? Love kids? Do you have a few hours to give that can change a child’s success later in life? If you’re available Saturday 9/12, please come and help us sort Raising A Reader materials for our awesome kids at the SF Food Bank (in Potrero Hill). You’ll be helping Raising A Reader San [...]
United Way’s Raising A Reader is a proven early literacy program that strives to break the cycle of poverty by empowering low-income families to create book-sharing routines. Research shows that sharing books with young children, age 0-5, promotes early brain development, stimulates social and emotional growth, and inspires a life-long love of learning and books. [...]
