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 Reach Out and Read Partners are organizations that have made significant contributions to our program financially or through other resources.
We would like to say a special THANK YOU to the following organizations and individuals for helping give the gift of reading to so many of Kansas City's children:
- Argentine Family Care
- Baby & Child Associates
- Cabot Westside Clinic
- Capitol Federal Savings
- Children’s Mercy Hospital & Clinics
- Citigroup
- Clinica Medica
- Curry Family Foundation
- First National Bank
- Foster Grandparent Program
- Francis Family Foundation
- Goppert-Trinity Family Care
- Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, DonorEdge
- Annette Grundmeier, MD Pediatrics
- Half-Price Books
- Hall Family Foundation
- Hallmark Cards
- Harley Davidson
- Heart of America Family Services, Literacy Hotline
- Homefront, KC Brain Child
- H&R Block Foundation
- Home Town Buffet
- M.R. and Evelyn Hudson Foundation
- Jackson County Health Department
- Jewish Heritage Foundation
- Johnson County Community College
- Johnson County Health Department
- Johnson County Public Library
- Junior League of Kansas City, MO
- Junior League of Wyandotte & Johnson Counties, Ks
- Kansas Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics
- Kansas City Kansas Public Library
- Kansas City Missouri Public Library
- KCPT Kids
- KU Medical Center, KU Pediatrics
- William T. Kemper Foundation
- E.M. Kauffman Foundation
- E.M. Kauffman Fund
- Kiwanis Club of Kansas City
- Midwest Pallet
- Oak Grove Family Medical Care
- Parents as Teachers
- Project EAGLE
- Reach Out and Read National Center (ROR)
- Reading is Fundamental (RIF)
- Research College of Nursing
- Rockhurst College
- Rolling Hills United Presbyterian Church
- St. Luke’s Hospital
- St. Peter’s Church School
- Sony Electronics, Inc.
- St. Vincent’s Operation Breakthrough
- Starbucks
- Swope Health Services
- Target
- Tenney Pediatrics & Adolescents
- Transystems Corporation
- Truman Medical Centers
- Turner House for Children
- UMKC Center in the City
- Unified Government Public Health Department
- Visitation Junior Board
- Volunteer Center of Johnson County
- Youth Friends
- Wyandotte County Public Library
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 Program Components:
Doctors and nurse practitioners are trained to give advice to parents about appropriate books and reading activities that support their child's healthy development.
Children get to take home a free, new, developmentally appropriate book at every check-up from birth to five years.
Trained volunteers read aloud to children in waiting rooms, modeling for parents how to share books and tell stories, and engage families in waiting room activities surrounding books and reading.
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