UNITED WAY OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY

United for literacy, only 32% of children can read at grade level by the end of third grade. This is a crisis that adversely affects these children's ability to succeed in school, graduate and lead successful adult lives. Our bold goal through our united for literacy initiative is to increase our counties childhood literacy rate to 75% by the year 2034. We do this in the impact areas of read alouds, increasing parent involvement, widespread book distribution, increasing community awareness about the importance of reading to children and more. This past year we reached 20,000 children, distributed 123,798 books, provided 70 literacy events for children and families, funded 11 reach out and read active clinics in 4 healthcare systems across the county.