In the News
4.22.13
Dow Chemical corporate volunteers - participants in the Power Partners Program, treated their students from the Francis Scott Key School to a fantastic trip to The Kimmel Center to visit the Time Machine exhibit. Students also enjoyed a story -- read by HH Dowbot the Dow Robot!
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The Penn Museum kicks off a month-long PHILADELPHIA READS book drive on April 10 with an evening of activities for both grown ups and kids. We were featured in this Metro article.
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Generosity.org features the Book Bank and Target's corporate sponsorship for 2012 - 2013. Read the article here.
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Philly.com captured the story of how a young girl's letter brought Mayor Nutter to her school for a belated Read Across America Celebration. Watch the coverage here.
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PHILADELPHIA READS provides meaningful opportunities for individuals, corporations and foundations to help Philadelphia children in under-resourced schools build strong literacy skills, fall in love with reading and succeed in school!
93.4% of donated funds are used to run our core programs.
What's Happening
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What We Do
An award-winning summer literacy curriculum that provides students with meaningful, fun literary experiences that build literacy skills, develop a love of reading, and increase motivation to read.
Teachers in public schools, day care centers and other educational sites in Philadelphia are invited to select free books for their classroom libraries. Target is the generous 2012 - 2013 Corporate Sponsor of the Book Bank.
A corporate social responsibility program that connects corporate and business volunteers with first and second grade public school students for weekly literacy coaching. A unique literacy initiative that brings students into the corporate world for mentoring. To learn more about how your company can participate, send us an email.
We're pleased to announce that Wawa is the Lead Corporate Sponsor of 2013 Reading Olympics!
The Book Bank is closed for teachers for the 2012 -2013 school year. We will reopen for teachers in the Fall of 2013.
We are continuing to accept book donations, as we prepare for the new school year!
What's New
We are pleased to be partnering with Penn Museum and the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance's Groundswell Initiative on a free community night to celebrate literacy! Please join us at Penn Museum on April 10th from 5-8 pm for an evening of fun literacy activities. Don't forget to bring along a new or gently-used children's book to donate! Click here for more information!
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2013 Read Across America Day Celebration on March 5 at Spring Garden Elementary School
Thank you to our generous Lead Sponsor US Airways
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