Reading Is Fundamental Book Drive

Your $4 gift can ensure a new book finds its way into a child's hands. Celebrate National Reading Month and donate to our virtual book drive today! Reading Is Fundamental works to disrupt the alarming U.S. literacy crisis by inspiring the joy of reading in children, a critical element to driving the frequency, motivation, and engagement needed to create skilled readers. We know that if we build a foundation of joy for children, then development, discovery, and opportunity follow. Help celebrate National Reading Month!

For just $4, you can help us connect young readers and their families with books that will inspire their love of learning. Here are just a few reasons to get involved. You can help children and families own books—and achieve their potential. Your donation helps more children learn how to read. In 2006, Book’em joined forces with Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), the largest children's literacy organization in the United States. Today, Book’em administers the RIF program in 15 Title I Metro Nashville elementary schools and is working to be able to serve more schools in the future.

Each classroom is visited by a volunteer reader five times throughout the school year, during which the reader engages the students through interactive reading. At the end of each visit, students each pick their own book to keep and enjoy at home. Each child ends the school year with five new books in their home library, a relationship with a reading role model, and (we hope!) a re-energized love of books and reading. Locally, the RIF program now serves over 7,000 children a year through a network of more than 250 reading role model volunteers, distributing 31,000+ books annually. RIF is FULL for the 2025-2026 school year, and we cannot thank you enough for your support! If you were unable to join us this year, fill out our Volunteer Interest Form here so we know to keep you in mind for RIF next school year.

Currently volunteering with us and have questions? We've created a resources page just for you. Click below to get started! "RIF allows students to see that not only does their teacher feel that reading is important but the community does as well." "This program is transformational for students and brings my students such joy!" Partnership to promote children’s literacy in the U.S.

Campaign will be supported by a $25,000 donation from Sinclair BALTIMORE & WASHINGTON – Sinclair Inc. (Nasdaq: SBGI) today announced a partnership with Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), the nation’s leading children’s literacy nonprofit, to launch Sinclair Cares: Supporting Children’s Literacy. The nationwide campaign seeks to create awareness around children’s literacy challenges and help get books into the hands of children across the U.S. through a virtual book drive. The Sinclair Cares: Supporting Children’s Literacy campaign will run throughout March, National Reading Month.

One in three children entering kindergarten lack the basic skills they need to learn to read, and two-thirds of U.S fourth graders do not read at grade level*. RIF was recognized as the Most Trusted Brand and Brand of the Year in the Youth Non-Profit category in the 2024 Harris Poll EquiTrend Study Children's Center (H.S. Mountain View), Mountain View School District “What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles.

But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic." Carol Henault, the Executive Director of Reading Is Fundamental of Southern California, speaks with enthusiasm and a sense of delight as she describes her journey in the nonprofit world.

Tell Me Another Story, is an inspiring 30-minute overview of diversity in children’s literature that highlights the dedication of intellectual and artistic giants, past and present, whose efforts have uplifted children’s literature, from W.E.B. Du Bois, Augusta Baker, Pura Belpré and Ezra Jack Keats, to Pat Cummings, Marley Dias, Grace Lin, Christopher Myers, and Andrea Davis Pinkney. It clarifies the enormous need for us to tell our children another, more inclusive story. This is a film you will want to share with your students, colleagues and friends. Nearly two-thirds of low-income families do not own any books for their children. Reading Is Fundamental Pittsburgh addresses this critical need by providing children with access to self-selected books, creating positive environments that motivate children to develop a lifelong love of reading, and engaging families in literacy...

By providing more than 84,000 books and services to our city’s most economically disadvantaged children, RIF Pittsburgh is dedicated to reducing the literacy gap in our community and fostering a lifelong love of reading... Six months of author read-alouds, free literacy activities, book giveaways, and a nationwide challenge to read 100 books. WASHINGTON, Oct. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), the nation's leading children's literacy nonprofit, today announced the launch of the fifth annual Rally to Read 100 (www.RallytoRead.org) coinciding with RIF's 60th anniversary in 2026. The six-month initiative, running October 1, 2025, through March 31, 2026, is designed to inspire the joy of reading and motivate children nationwide to take on the challenge of reading 100 books. Building on the success of last year's campaign, which engaged more than 600,000 children, RIF will once again unite classrooms and communities with monthly reading themes, exclusive author read-alouds, nationwide book sweepstakes, and free...

This year will also feature a live, nationwide celebration in March 2026 simulcast from the Union Square Barnes & Noble in New York City in honor of National Reading Month. New research shows that fewer parents are reading aloud with their children—a practice proven to strengthen vocabulary, boost listening skills, and nurture a lifelong love of reading. RIF is committed to reversing this trend through Rally to Read, which launches with a special welcome video from award-winning author and songwriter Emily Arrow and is supported by Inspiration Partners Barnes & Noble,... "As we enter the fifth year of Rally to Read and prepare to celebrate RIF's 60th anniversary in 2026, we're building on incredible momentum to help children everywhere discover the joy and power of... "This initiative is more than a reading challenge—it's a movement that sparks curiosity, strengthens literacy skills, and brings communities together around the magic of books. With the support of our partners and passionate advocates, Rally to Read continues to create meaningful opportunities for children to connect with stories that reflect both themselves and the world around them."

Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), the nation’s leading children’s literacy nonprofit, is launching the third annual Rally to Read 100 (RallytoRead.org)—a six-month initiative that runs from October 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024, designed to... “Rally to Read 100 provides the opportunity to drive reading joy through popular author read-alouds, a book pledge, and reading activities. We know that the joy of reading leads to greater reading frequency, motivation, and engagement. And RIF is fortunate to have partners, including the Children’s Book Council, who share in our mission and are supporting Rally to Read by ensuring as many families and educators as possible are aware... Together, we are creating a nation of readers.” —Alicia Levi, President & CEO Carl Lennertz, CBC Executive Director, added: “We are very happy to partner again with RIF and this important new reading campaign.

The book banning crisis is about subtraction; RIF’s work and the Rally to Read is about addition and expanding choices, and highlighting the FUN in Fundamental and in book reading.” Building on the success of last year’s event, in which over 800,000 books were pledged to be read, RIF will once again unite classrooms and communities across the country with a reading initiative anchored... There will also be a book collection sweepstakes, a variety of engaging reading activities for the home and school (some of which are in Spanish), plus a live virtual event hosted at a Barnes... All of the free literacy resources and activities are available at RallytoRead.org. READ ACROSS AMERICA DAY CELEBRATION EVENT:

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