Reading Olympics are underway!!
172 teams will be competing throughout May.
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PHILADELPHIA READS provides meaningful opportunities for individuals, corporations and foundations to help Philadelphia's children build strong literacy skills, fall in love with reading and succeed in school!
We invite you connect with us for exciting volunteer and philanthropic opportunities that have lasting impact. Together we can raise a city of readers!
93.4% of donated funds are used to run our core Programs.
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Provides children with meaningful, fun literary experiences that build literacy skills, develop a love of reading, increase motivation to read and give them greater access to high interest reading materials.
Teachers in public schools, day care centers and other educational sites in Philadelphia are invited to select up to 400 free books per school year for their classroom libraries.
A unique literacy initiative that gives students their first glimpse of the corporate world. Public school students are tutored weekly at local business offices by corporate volunteers to improve reading skills and to show them where a good education can lead.
BOOK BANK NEWS
The last day for teachers to select books for the 2011-2012 school year is Wednesday, May 23.
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The Book Bank is located in the Martin Luther King High School, 6100 Stenton Avenue, Room 327. Open for Teachers on Wednesdays from 2:30 to 5:00 pm. For more information call 215.279.7450 or email here.
Each Book Bank book that goes to classroom libraries has been donated!
Would you or your organization like to host a book drive? It's easy and fun with our Book Drive How-To Tool Kit!
Do you have gently-used children's books you'd love to donate to under-resourced classroom libraries?
Book Drop Off Times
Tuesdays, 11 am - 1pm
Wednesdays, 11 am - 2pm
Please call 215.279.7450 first!
Drawing extended to June 1, 2012!
Enter to win a $50 Barnes & Noble Gift Card
and a Cool PHILADELPHIA READS Messenger Bag!!
Enter the drawing here and then post your favorite children's poem on our Facebook page.
One winner will be drawn at random on June 1, 2012
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