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Read to Grow Receives $12,000 Comcast Foundation Grant

5/5/2010

Read to Grow has received a $12,000 grant from the Comcast Foundation to support our Books for Kids program. A special event was recently held at Fair Haven School in New Haven, where Comcast and Read to Grow representatives handed out books to Fair Haven students.

“Many of our students don’t have access to books at home,” said Kim Johnsky, principal of the K-8 school. Each of the school’s 632 students received a book to take home to build their personal libraries.

The Comcast Foundation grant will enable Read to Grow’s Books for Kids program to distribute 10,000 new and gently used books to children of limited means in New Haven to encourage literacy. Child development and literacy research shows that books are critical to a child’s cognitive and emotional development; and when parents read with and talk to a child, they reinforce the child’s positive approach to books, language and learning.

“Comcast is committed to powering dreams in the communities where our customers and our employees live and work,” said Doug Guthrie, senior vice president of Comcast’s Western New England Region.  “We’re so proud that this grant will help to get 10,000 books into the hands of children in New Haven, which aligns with Comcast’s commitment to supporting youth literacy and development initiatives in the cities and towns we serve.”

About this photo: Fair Haven School kindergartners show off the books they received from Read to Grow, through a grant from the Comcast Foundation. Attending a recent special event to hand out books were, back row from left:  Laura A. Brubaker, director of public relations, Comcast - Western New England Region; Brad Palazzo, Comcast community relations manager, Western New England Region; Susanne Santangelo, Read to Grow executive director; and Dan Glanville, Comcast vice president of government affairs, Western New England Region.

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