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Press Releases
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Sunday, May 09, 2010 |
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The Citizens Bank Foundation has awarded a $15,000 grant for Read to Grow’s early literacy program at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital in New London. The donation will support the organization’s Books for Babies program which was established at the hospital in 2001.
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Monday, April 12, 2010 |
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David Weber is one of a dozen pediatric residents to visit Read to Grow this year to learn about our programs and early literacy through a new rotation called REACH - Resident Education in Advocacy and Community Health - that sends young docs out of the hospital and into the community. |
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Friday, February 12, 2010 |
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Read to Grow has a strong presence in Fairfield county, with Books for Babies programs operating in both Bridgeport hospitals and thousands of new and gently used books distributed annually to children in communities from Shelton and Stratford to Norwalk and Stamford.
With need and demand for our services increasing, Read to Grow is reaching out to donors and volunteers to expand local involvement. A Fairfield county regional support group recently was launched at a meeting with RTG founder Roxanne Coady, held at the Westport home of Belinda Bralver.
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Saturday, August 01, 2009 |
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Steve Foldy stood knee-deep in boxes, bins and bags of 6,000 books he and his fellow Kiwanis Club of Fairfield members collected during their recent town-wide book drive for Read to Grow, a statewide organization that works to build early literacy. The Kiwanis Club has run a book drive for Read to Grow three consecutive years, and has collected more than 20,000 new and gently used books for the nonprofit. |
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Monday, June 22, 2009 |
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We Need Your Books! Read to Grow is experiencing a dramatic increase in book requests from Connecticut families, especially for children under two years old, and you can help. Come to RJ Julia Booksellers in Madison on Friday, June 26 and drop off your gently used children’s books to benefit Read to Grow's program and children across the state. |
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009 |
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Read to Grow has received a $15,000 grant from The Citizens Bank Foundation for the Books for Babies program at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital in New London. Citizens Bank has been supporting Books for Babies at L&M since 2001 when the program began at the hospital.
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 |
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The young members of Brownie Troop 66232 stand barely head and shoulders above the 2,123 boxed books they collected for Read to Grow. Based in Kensington, the troop decided to make Read to Grow their beneficiary as they earned their Girl Scout Take Action award. |
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Sunday, March 01, 2009 |
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Read to Grow has assumed the regional coordination for the First Book grants for the Greater Hartford community. Grants are available to nonprofit organizations or Title I schools that provide some type of literacy service to low-income households and offer multiple book distributions to each child in the program. |
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Saturday, January 31, 2009 |
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Read to Grow recently received a $5,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation to support the literacy organization's Books for Babies program. |
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Monday, December 01, 2008 |
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Read to Grow has received a $40,000 grant from The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, to be distributed over a three-year period, to support our Books for Babies program.
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