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Press Releases
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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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