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A New Challenge
This month, we proudly announce a new and very special opportunity to share the love of reading offered to us through a challenge grant from the Peter Jay Sharp Foundation. The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation has generously offered to grant Read Alliance $25,000 so that we may improve our technology and ultimately serve our students and their teen tutors even more efficiently. The challenge: Read Alliance must also raise an additional $25,000 to receive the grant.
02.14.2012 | Category: Press Releases | Tags:
How Teen Tutors Make an Impact
These two teens from the Bronx explain what it is really like to be a Read Alliance teen tutor, and how they are making an impact:
01.30.2012 | Category: Press Releases | Tags: Teen Tutors, National Mentoring Month
For the Love of Reading
As an organization that is dedicated to fostering a lifelong love of learning in young children through providing them with foundational reading skills, we like to focus on the positive. So, how do we do it? How do we cultivate a love of reading in young students? We sat down with our experts and came up with three simple tips:
01.25.2012 | Category: Media Clips | Tags: program, tips
Read Alliance Announces New Board Member
Read Alliance proudly announces that its Board of Directors has appointed a new member, Marcia Cantarella, at the beginning of this year.
01.04.2012 | Category: Press Releases | Tags: Board of Directors
The Inside/Outside Envelope Project
"Envelope art is a long-standing tradition in prison art," Explains Phyllis Kornfield (artist, educator, and author of Cellblock Visions), "beautiful envelopes sent to loved ones communicate a deep connection." The Inside/Outside Envelope Project, curated by Kornfield in support of Read Alliance, expands upon the spirit of giving by selling envelope art donated by incarcerated men and women to benefit charity.
01.04.2012 | Category: Press Releases | Tags: event, Inside/Outside Envelope Projec
The Art of Reading Slideshow
This presentation of Read Alliance students' artwork was created for the Leadership Council's 3rd Annual Fall Event, The Art of Reading. Take a look to further understand the powerful relationship between art and literacy.
11.28.2011 | Category: Media Clips | Tags:
The Difference a Job Makes
What makes Read Alliance so special is our vision to prepare two at-risk populations for continued academic and personal accomplishment. Not only do we shrink the achievement gap by providing at-risk students with basic reading skills, but we continue to provide hundreds of teens with meaningful, paid jobs each year. Our teen tutors learn more than the ins and outs of having a job: they get the added benefits of making an impact on a child’s life.
11.21.2011 | Category: Press Releases | Tags: Teen Employment, Teen Tutors
Celebrating Literacy & Arts with the Leadership Council
The Art Of Reading featured a powerful presentation of artwork created by Read Alliance students, an open bar, light hors d’oeuvres, raffle, and a short presentation on the relationship between art and literacy. With 120 guests in attendance and over $14,000 raised, the event was a true success!
11.16.2011 | Category: Press Releases | Tags:
Leadership Council’s 3rd Annual Fall Event: The Art of Reading
On November 9, the Leadership Council will host a celebration of Read Alliance’s expanded Literacy & Arts program. The event will take place at James Graham & Sons gallery and will feature artwork created by Read Alliance students, an open bar, light hors d’oeuvres, raffle, and a short presentation on art and literacy from Rosa Lofgren, a teacher from PS279X who worked with the program.
10.13.2011 | Category: Calendar | Tags: event, Leadership Council, Art of Reading, Literacy & Art
Summer Reading Program Recipient of NYC Department of Ed Book Giveaway
Representatives from the Department of Education will visit Public School 3 in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn Tuesday to distribute books to students enrolled in the Read Alliance Summer Reading Program. Read students, primarily from low-income communities in New York City, receive one-to-one tutoring from teenage tutors from their same neighborhoods. The Book Giveaway partnership with the Department of Education provides these students with the opportunity to chose a book, from a selection of age and level-appropriate books, and take it home to begin building their personal libraries.
08.09.2011 | Category: Press Releases | Tags:
Teens Build Professional Network at Build Your Future Career Fair
This summer's Build Your Future program for outstanding teen tutors concluded with one of the program's signature events, the Fourth Annual Build Your Future Career Fair. This year's event was hosted at Hunter College and included presenters from various industries including architecture, marketing, journalism, healthcare, law, urban planning, human resources and education. The Career Fair is the culminating event of the five-week Build Your Future Program.
08.08.2011 | Category: Press Releases | Tags:
Read Announces New Leadership Council Members
As the Leadership Council prepares for an exciting fall, we welcome aboard six new members who have demonstrated commitment and enthusiasm for helping improve the academic trajectory of struggling young readers in New York City. New members will join a dedicated team of professionals that make up the Leadership Council, representing diverse industries including education, finance, marketing, psychology, accounting, consulting, real estate and law.
08.04.2011 | Category: Press Releases | Tags:
Biblio, Inc. launches Round Up For Reading
Independent book marketplace Biblio.com announced today the launch of its charity donor tool, Round Up For Reading. The new feature to its online checkout, Round Up For Reading provides customers with a choice of literacy charities, including READ Alliance, to which they can optionally donate by rounding up their purchase.
07.19.2011 | Category: Media Clips | Tags:
Read Alliance, a model for success in Missouri
Last year, Read brought 86 first-graders in Jackson up to grade-level reading or higher. On the heels of Read's success, there is talk of expanding to other elementary schools this fall.
07.18.2011 | Category: Media Clips | Tags: READ Alliance, Midwest program, Missouri, model for success
Third Annual Celebration
Eleven year old Tasfia, Read Alliance tutor since 2010, reads her winning essay at our Third Annual Celebration, held May 5th at the New York Public Library - Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. The annual benefit drew more than 150 supporters and raised nearly $300,000.
05.24.2011 | Category: Press Releases | Tags:
Schroders Investment Management Adopts a School
For the past two years, Schroders Investment Management North America has supported Read Alliance through a corporate sponsorship. This year, they targeted their support, choosing one Bronx school to support. Through the Adopt-A-School initiative, Schroders employees not only helped fund the Read Alliance program at PS5X, they also had the chance to meet their school’s teens and students by volunteering to support tutoring and homework help. They also contributed by helping raise proceeds through a company-wide “Jeans day.”
Learn how your business can partner with Read Alliance and help close the achievement gap.
04.13.2011 | Category: Press Releases | Tags:
Senator Klein and AT&T Celebrate Our Students’ Success
State Senator Jeff Klein (D- Bronx/ Westchester) and President of AT&T New York Hal Lenox attended the READ Alliance Program completion ceremony at P.S. 97.
04.13.2011 | Category: Press Releases | Tags:
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