Raising A Reader
Grant Size: $928,000
Grantee Since: 2008
Grant Objective: Scale organization.
Raising A Reader ensures healthy brain development in 0 – 5 year olds by dramatically increasing interactive book sharing between low-income parents and children. This simple program, which costs about $100 per child, has demonstrated results through improved literacy test-scores and increases in the number of times children and their parents share books.