2009 Annual Benefit:
Misstress of Ceremonies Hoda Kotb with Board Members Maria Gotsch and Keith Dawkins
Bowling for Books
February 26, 2012
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May 10, 2012
Reach Out and Read of Greater New York
2012 Annual Benefit Gala Auction
A World of Possibilities
The Museum Club at Bridgewaters
11 Fulton Street
Atop the Fulton Market Building
at the South Street Seaport
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Cocktails, Auction and Awards
Honorees
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
Richard Robinson
Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer
Scholastic Inc.
Event Co-Chairs
Karine Apollon
Vice President & General Manager
Scholastic Classroom and Community Group
Eileen FitzPatrick
Reach Out and Read of Greater New York Founding Board Member
Auction Chair
Susan Kaufman
Editor
People StyleWatch
Benefit Committee
Karine Apollon Eileen FitzPatrick Vincent R. FitzPatrick, Jr.
Maria Gotsch
Rachael Honowitz Susan Kaufman Lewis Krata, MD Mardee Kravit
Jack Pace Linda Moody Libby Schmitz
(committee in formation)
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About the Honorees
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
 In 1996, Dolly Parton launched an exciting new effort, Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, to benefit the children of her home county in East Tennessee, USA. Dolly's vision was to foster a love of reading among her county’s preschool children and their families by providing them with the gift of a specially selected book each month. By mailing high quality, age-appropriate books directly to their homes, she wanted children to be excited about books and to feel the magic that books can create. Moreover, she could insure that every child would have books, regardless of their family’s income.
Dolly’s Imagination Library became so popular that in the year 2000 she announced that she would make the program available for replication to any community that was willing to partner with her to support it locally. Since the initial program launch in the United States, Dolly Parton's Imagination Library has gone from just a few dozen books to nearly 40,000,000 books mailed to children in the United States, into Canada and across the proverbial pond into the United Kingdom! Currently over 1600 local communities provide the Imagination Library to almost 700,000 children each and every month.
From every child’s first book, The Little Engine That Could , to their last book on their 5th birthday, Look Out Kindergarten Here I Come, each book is carefully selected by a panel of professionals. The Imagination Library is intentionally composed with each book leading to the next. For those children 3 and older, every book has title specific reading tips for the parents to help them maximize their reading experience.
Above all else, Dolly’s Imagination Library is about making books a joyful experience. The seeds we are sowing now will blossom into a lifelong love of learning and inspire all children to Dream More, Learn More, Care More and Be More.
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