Local News: 2015 Volunteers in Lead to Read program take lunch hour to share a love of reading!

This year we’ve connected with Alliance for Economic Inclusion.  “FDIC’s national initiative to establish broad-based coalitions of financial institutions, community-based organizations and other partners in several markets across the country to bring all unbanked and underserved populations into the financial mainstream.” (read more here)  As this group has grown they’ve realized that education, chiefly reading, is a critical juncture for everything.  So we, along with many other organizations in the city, have come together to have dialogue and collaborate.  At a meeting in December we connected with Lindsey Foat, Reporter for KCPT & The Hale Center for Journalism.  This spring she approached us about featuring Lead to Read as a way of spreading the word about what we’re doing.  Of course, we loved the idea!  

We are excited to watch the story being told…and shared.  Take a moment and watch the video here and then even more importantly share it with someone.  We have a big vision, a big goal….5000 kids, that means we need 5000+ Readers…you can help us get there!