100,000 READERS ... can we reach it? YES WE CAN!!! Register for the 2012 Annual Day of Reading ...

 

Mission

This City Reads! is a community alliance of organizations to champion and leverage the power of reading to promote the future success of families, individuals, and businesses in Greater Akron/Summit County.

Vision

Summit County/Akron is the Reading Capital of the World. What’s possible if all our kindergartners are ready to learn to read? What’s possible if all our third graders are reading to learn?

This City Reads!
Partners believe:

Reading is everyone’s business

An information-based economy requires everyone to read

Reading soars when family, school and community collaborate

First you learn to read, then you read to learn

Reading is essential to improving quality of life

Reading is fundamental to responsible citizenship

This City Reads! Goals

Leverage impact

Engage the community

Connect individuals and families with resources

Champion the collaborative model

2010 Report

2009 Report

2008 Report

2007 Report

2006 Report

It is all about celebrating reading!! 

We hope you will save these dates and join us for some family fun!

5th Family Reading Festival - Saturday February 4, 2012 

10 - 4, Main Library

Come see the ever popular Jim Gill, Zoe from Sesame Street, WordGirl, Storyteller Robin Echols Cooper and get your free book!

For more details check out this flyer

 

9th Annual Day of Reading - Wednesday February 8, 2012

Kick-Off Breakfast - Wednesday February 8, 2012  7:30, Akron-Canton Foodbank

The database is ready! You can record your promise to read today! Use this convenient form once your name  is on the list you are done. No need to do anything more...BUT Read!

Don't forget to nominate that special person for the Literacy is Life Award. What special person or organization has gone that extra mile to improve their literacy or the literacy skills of others? print out the form today or fill it out online.

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This City Reads! Partners

A Y's Place

Ability at Work, A Hattie Larlham Program

Akron Aeros

Akron Art Museum

Akron Beacon Journal

Akron Children's Hospital

Akron General Medical Center

Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority

Akron Ohio Reads Program(Akron Public Schools)

Akron Public Schools

Akron Reads-King School

Akron Summit Community Action Inc - YouthBuild

Akron Summit Community Action Inc.

Akron Symphony Orchestra

Akron Urban League

Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank

Akron-Summit County Public Library

Al Kaf Temple #109

Alicia Strickler

All About Children Cleve-Mass

All American Soap Box Derby

AMBC Christian Academy

AMHA

Barberton City Schools

Barberton Public Library

Barnes & Noble-Montrose

Betty Bryant

Boys & Girls Clubs of the Western Reserve

Brightside Academy

Callis Tower

Caring Communities of Summit County

Cathy Spidell

Children's Place UMC Daycare

City of Akron

Color Our Rainbow Academy

Community Health Center- Help Me Grow

Copley-Fairlawn Kiwanis

County of Summit

County of Summit Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health (ADM) Services Board

County of Summit Dept. of Job & Family Services

Cuyahoga Falls City Schools

Cuyahoga Falls Library

Dunbar Elementary School

Elisha Murray

Elmcroft of Sagamore Hills

Ernst & Young

F.A.C.T. ACADEMY

Family & Children First Council

Farmers Insurance

First Book-Greater Akron

Fishcreek Elementary

Fort Island Primary School

Frances Mazzola

Friends of Main Library

Glover CLC

Goodwill Industries of Akron

Grandma reads to me

Greater Akron Chamber

Green Family YMCA

Help Me Grow

Holy Family School

Hudson City Schools

Hudson Library and Historical Society

Imagine Romig Road Community School

Immaculate Conception Preschool & Child Care Center

Indian Trail Elementary

Indian Trail PTA Literacy For Trade

Joyce and Amore DeJournett

Jumpstart-Akron

Kallie Karman

Kids Play

Kids Play - Green

Kids-Play, Inc

Kindermusik with Miss Terri

Lakeview Elementary

Laurel Lake Retirement Community

Leadership Akron

LearningRX

Lighthouse Academy

Lynn's Day Care

Mambevon Child Care Consulting LLC

Manchester Local Schools

Mary Beth Clemons

Meaden & Moore

METRO Regional Transit Authority

Minority Behavioral Health Group

Mogadore Local School District

Mrs. Sullivan & Mrs. Keller's classes Lakeview School, Stow, Ohio

Norton City Schools (Grill Elementary)

Ohio Distance and Electronic Learning Academy

Old Trail School

Oriana House, Inc

Overdale Primary School

Pat Horton

Peninsula Library

Phoenix Alternative School

Phoenix Village Academy

Portage Trail East Apartments

Project AGAPE

Project Learn of Summit County

Pulmonary Rehab, Summa Health Systems

R-D Bike Shop

Revere Local Schools

Round River Consulting, LLC

S.U.P.E.R. Learning Center - Tutoring & More!

Sarah Hamsher

Sci-Mobile

Seton Catholic School

Shaw JCC of Akron

Show and Tell

Springfield Local School District

Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library

Sue Brichacek

Summa Health System

Summit Academy Schools

Summit Academy Schools

Summit County Children Services

Summit County Domestic Relations Court

Summit Education Initiative

Sutliff II Apartments, Cuyahoga Falls

Sutliff II Apts

Tallmadge Kiddie Kollege

Tallmadge Middle School

The Akron Area YMCA

The Blue Heron Bookstore

The Chapel

The Learned Owl Book Shop

The Office of Outreach and Professional Learning in the UA College of Education

The Revere Local School District

The Rubber City Book Posse, Bookcrossers in and around Akron, OH

The University of Akron Center for Child Development

The Unveristy of Akron Developmental Programs

Turkeyfoot Elementary School

Twinsburg Senior Apartments

United Way of Summit County

Vision Support Services

Walsh University, Akron Campus

WBNX

Wesley Tower

Western Reserve PBS

White Pond Villa/PK Management

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