Have Fun and Make a Difference, Too!

There are many ways you can help Read to Grow and support early literacy.
Here are just a few:

• Have a "Literacy Luncheon" or party to collect books to benefit Read to Grow.
• Organize a bake sale, penny drive, bottle and can drive, car wash, walk-a-thon or read-a-thon.
• Use your imagination and create your own project to collect books.
• Share the Read to Grow message by telling others about our programs.

Some great ideas...

For the third year, Karen Seligson and Melanie Ward asked friends to come to a festive Holiday Luncheon, and to bring a children’s book to the gathering. True to the spirit of the holiday season, each year invited guests were most generous, and even those who were unable to attend dropped off books. This year’s collection yielded more than 1,000 new and gently used books for our programs.

Jean Coady of Killingworth and Cathy McGrady of Madison invited more than 100 of their friends from all around Connecticut to dress up and step out in style for an evening to benefit Read to Grow. The gala event, held at Water’s Edge in Westbrook, was a stunning success, bringing in a pile of beautiful new books and almost $3,000 to support our programs.

 Molly Visnic, one of our Founding Patrons, threw a Beach Party Benefit for Read to Grow a few summers ago. She invited hundreds of children (and parents, too) to her Branford beachside home to celebrate the first day of summer and share a fun-filled afternoon, complete with a moon bounce, a NY hot dog vendor, a DJ, games, a raffle and kayaks on the water -- all for the admission price of a new or gently used children’s book or monetary donation. Guests were wonderfully generous, stuffing shopping bags and overfilling boxes with great books for our programs. The day’s collection brought in more than 2,300 books and over $600!

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