Reach Out and Read

📣 We’re proud to partner with Reach Out and Read in their search for a Regional Executive Director serving Iowa and Nebraska! 📚 Reach Out and Read is a national nonprofit transforming pediatric care by incorporating early literacy into family health practices. This role offers a unique opportunity to lead impactful initiatives that shape the lives of children and families across the region. NEED TO KNOW 📌 Regional Executive Director 📌 Serving Iowa and Nebraska 📌 $110K - $120K salary + benefits 📌 Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer WHAT YOU’LL ACHIEVE ✅ Lead regional growth by building partnerships and securing funding. ✅ Strengthen program delivery to advance literacy outcomes. ✅ Serve as a strategic leader fostering collaboration and community impact. ✨ Learn More: Reach out to Mary Carlton or apply at https://lnkd.in/esb-bnAR ✨ Share: Tag someone who would be a great fit for this role! #LeadershipOpportunity #NonprofitJobs #SocialImpact #PositivelyPartners

National Women's Law Center's latest report reveals alarming increases in poverty among women and families, with single mothers, children, and communities of color disproportionately affected. The findings underscore the urgent need for investments in families over cuts to critical anti-poverty programs.

“Doctors tell us all the time, ‘I’m looking to strengthen the connection between mom and baby. I want to do Reach Out and Read because I know it’s going to do that.’” Inside Philanthropy spotlights Reach Out and Read as a recipient of the #HolidayImpactPrize and dives into how Nick Kristof and Focusing Philanthropy have “turbocharged” the work. Our campaign is ongoing through January — join us in making a difference: https://lnkd.in/eunY2e8d.

Nurture Connection hosted a conversation with R. J. Gillespie, MD, MHPE, FAAP and Amy King, PhD — authors of The Trauma-Informed Pediatric Practice: A Resilience-Based Roadmap to Foster Early Relational Health, published by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Hear them talk about how their book can transform pediatric practice for clinicians and families.

"The books that they're giving out at these visits might be the only books that these kids have in their home." — Kristen Hoplin, Executive Director of Reach Out and Read Minnesota. CBS News highlights our work in Minnesota — distributing nearly 300,000 books across the state last year — and the impact of Nick Kristof's #HolidayImpactPrize in serving more kids and families nationwide.

In 2024, thanks to supporters like you, we provided millions of families with the resources to make reading aloud a daily joy. 📚💖 Looking ahead to 2025, we’re excited to build brighter futures for even more children across the country — one book, one moment, one family at a time. Want to help us partner with clinicians to support early literacy and lifelong success? Close out the year with https://lnkd.in/gkvxTQ9s. 📚💖 Here’s to a year filled with meaning and growth! 🌟

“It’s magical, and you get to be a part of it.” — Reach Out and Read founder, Dr. Robert Needlman. Spread the Reach Out and Read magic in our $100,000 challenge: https://lnkd.in/gkvxTQ9s

“That ability to give that tool to a child is extraordinary.” — Dr. Trude Haecker, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Include Reach Out and Read in your year-end giving, and clinicians will give those powerful tools — books and guidance about shared reading — to families nationwide: https://lnkd.in/emk554Ed.

For nearly 50 years, Lois Lowry's books have adeptly tackled friendship, loyalty, fear, comfort, family, war, political oppression, love, grief, racism, and more — and usually from the perspective of children themselves. The Newbury Medal-winning author joins #RORPodcast host Dipesh Navsaria to share how, through writing, she tries “to convey her passionate awareness that we live intertwined on this planet and that our future depends upon our caring more, and doing more, for one another”: https://lnkd.in/eANzHx8H (or wherever you listen). 

“You can see literally on a brain scan what happens.” — Mark Del Monte, CEO/Executive Vice President at American Academy of Pediatrics, on why pediatricians believe in the power of shared reading. Need a meaningful last-minute gift? Donate in a friend or loved one’s name, and help us deliver our evidence-backed model to the young children who need it most: https://lnkd.in/emk554Ed.