Almost two years ago, United Way of the Greater Capital Region embarked on a new project. It reaches 14,000 children every month. But every month, the nonprofit must raise $35,000 to pay for it.

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It's Read Across America Week, a time to celebrate and encourage literacy and some local programs are determined to create the next generation of book lovers and the books they offer are free. Valeria ...

Pizza Hut's iconic Book It! reading program — which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year — is making its long-awaited return to stores nationwide. In addition, Pizza Hut and Book It! will be ...

For more than 50 years, the Prison Book Program has been built on one simple idea: Everybody deserves the freedom to read. The Quincy-based nonprofit sends tens of thousands of free books each year to ...

Over the past two years, upwards of 18,000 young children in the Las Vegas metro area have received free monthly books in the mail as part of an early literacy program started by country icon Dolly ...

Some teachers call it the summer lull or the summer slide. Other teachers refer to it as the summer brain drain. Whatever you call it, it’s real – the summer brings with it a long break in learning.