Our Partners
Reach Out and Read relies on partnerships with socially conscious organizations to help spread the word of our important work in early literacy and child development, and to reach as many families in our Michigan communities as possible.
Let’s work together to foster healthy growth and early literacy for children in Michigan.
Give a Gift.
Our program is possible because of generous financial support from donors like you.
Let’s Work Together.
To foster healthy growth and early literacy for children in Michigan.
Reach Out and Read Michigan is fortunate to work with many partners who share in our vision that all families should have the tools and information they need to make reading aloud a daily routine – so that every child, everywhere has a foundation for success.
We rely on partnerships with socially conscious organizations to help spread the word of our important work in early literacy and child development and to reach as many families in our Michigan communities as possible.
Partner With Us.
Reach Out and Read is the only organization working directly with pediatric medical providers to share the lifelong benefits that result from families reading with their children every day. By reaching children during the critical early years, we can combat the effects of inequality so that family income, race, and geography are no longer predictors of kindergarten readiness, school, and life success.
Learn more about how you or your company can support healthy childhood development and early literacy through a custom partnership with Reach Out and Read Michigan.
The Ready by Five Early Childhood Millage provides dedicated and sustainable funding for programs that improve the health, school readiness, and well-being of children under age five in Kent County.
The ongoing goals of the Ready by Five Early Childhood Millage are to:
Increase cross-sector collaboration
We will do so by increasing access to quality programming for expecting mothers and children ages 0-5 in Kent County.
Increase cross-sector collaboration
Further the relationship between providers to ensure families are being connected with needed services in the form of a warm handoff through referrals and data sharing.
Reduce outcome
disparities
Ensuring culturally relevant services that are inclusive of all populations as well as supporting programs that serve traditionally underserved community members based on their racial or ethnic background, zip code of residence, or cultural factors.
Our Book Vendors
Reach Out and Read is the only national pediatric
literacy model endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Reach Out and Read’s effectiveness is consistently supported by independent, peer-reviewed research.
Studies show that our model has a significant effect on parental behavior and attitudes toward reading aloud,
and that children who participate in our program demonstrate higher language scores.
Our impact has been documented in ethnically and economically diverse families throughout the nation.