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Learn more about Reach Out and Read of Greater New York through our recent press releases and news coverage. Click here to download Press Kit materials.

May 2013 Reach Out and Read of Greater New York Launches $4 Million Campaign to Expand Early Literacy Services For Children

March 2013 Children's Book Author Robie H. Harris to Receive New Children's Literacy Award

February 2013 Reach Out and Read Supports President Obama’s Focus on Early Education

February 2013 Miss Teen USA, Logan West, Partners with Reach Out and Read to Make Story Time Special for Young New Yorkers

December 2012 New York State Senator Parker Promotes Reading Aloud at the Caribbean-American Family Health Center in East Flatbush

October 2012 Pediatricians Add Reading to Essential Health Checkup List: Children of Bellevue's Reach Out and Read featured on PBS NewsHour (video - Learning Matters for PBS NewsHour)

September 2012 Mount Kisco Doctors Promote Healthy Readers ( Mt. Kisco Daily Voice)

September 2012 Reach Out and Read in Long Island (video - Newsday, Verizon Fios1 News Long Island)

September 2012 Sound Shore Medical Center Celebrates Early Literacy Awareness Week (Talk of the Sound)

September 2012 Reach Out and Read Blends Learning and Fun (Amsterdam News)

September 2012 Promoting Early Literacy With Reach Out and Read (Caribbean Life)

August 2012 Local Leaders Promote Reading During Our Fourth Annual Literacy Early Literacy Awareness Week

June 2012 Reach Out and Read of Greater New York Featured on WABC's Tiempo

May 2012: A World of Possibilities - Annual Benefit and Auction
-Press Release
-Video: Simple Intervention - Powerful Impact
Event Press Coverage:
-New York Beacon
- EurWeb.Com
- Getty Images

February 2012 Miss Teen USA, Danielle Doty, Reads Aloud to Children at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center

January 2012 Traci Lester Named on TheGrio's 100 List

January 2012 Reading, a Prescription for Pediatricians (SILIVE.com)
Literacy Program 'Reach Out and Read' Comes to Staten Island (SILIVE.com)



December 2011 Traci Lester Appears on NBC New York Nightly News to Speak About Reach Out and Read (NBC New York)

December 2011 Danielle Doty, Miss Teen USA 2011, Visited Queens Hospital Center to Read to Children in Support of Reach Out and Read of Greater New York (Queens Chronicle)

September 2011 Bauer Media, publishers of Women's World, Starts Running a Reach Out and Read Public Service Ad in the Popular Magazine (Click to see the ad)

September 2011: Top New York City Figures Gather in Support of Literacy Partners to Open PUSH: A Comprehensive Resource Center Providing Pathways Our of Poverty for Harlem Residents (Literacy Partners)

August 2011: Reach Out and Read of Greater New York receives a $360K grant from The Leona M. & Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to support programs in the Bronx (New York Nonprofit Press)
Download the Press Release

August 2011: At a 'Five Little Monkeys' reading, Charlie Rangel discusses Bloomberg, Soros and the sad fate of dropouts(Capital New York)

August 2011: Media Alert: Got Books? Early Literacy Week Promotes Reading Aloud To New York's Youngest Children with Events Aug. 4th-13th.

July 2011: Children of Bellevue's Reach Out and Read featured by NBC Nightly News

Summer 2011: Newsletter

June 2011: Reach Out and Read Gains the Support of The Estée Lauder Companies’ Employees to Promote Early Literacy

May 2011: New York Beacon Features Reach Out and Read of Greater New York Gala, "Reading for the Future"

May 2011: NBC's Hoda Kotb Joins Miss Teen USA to Honor James Patterson in Support of Reach Out and Read of Greater New York
(Photos from the event can be seen at Getty Images, and Downtown New York. )

April 2011: Rx: Read to Your Baby (The New York Times)

April 2011: Cocktail Reception Honors James Patterson in Support of Reach Out and Read of Greater New York

March 2011: Waiting Rooms Become Reading Rooms for World Read Aloud Day (DNAinfo.com)

February 2011: Miss Teen USA 2010 Shares Her Love of Reading with Kids on Valentine’s Day

February 2011: Love Your Library: Support Brooklyn Public Library, Other Initiatives for Kids (The Brooklyn Eagle)

January 2011: Miss Teen USA Visits Brooklyn Hospitals
VIDEO: Miss Teen USA at Kings County Hospital

2010: One Family's Story. A Bronx family shares how their lives were touched by Reach Out and Read



For Press Releases and newsletters prior to 2011, please visit our Press Room Archive








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