How to Contribute
Reach Out and Read Texas has an ongoing need for funding to train healthcare providers, purchase new children’s books, and continue to expand the “prescription for reading” to every Texas community. A contribution in any form is appreciated and will go towards ensuring that children enter school with the tools necessary to learn to read and be successful:
How to get involved with Reach Out and Read Texas:
Make a gift to ROR. Each gift of $50.00 will enable ROR to provide the full five-year program to one more child.
Click here to make a donation.
If you like to provide your services or goods with Reach Out and Read - Texas, contact a member of the Reach Out and Read Texas staff.
Volunteer readers are a crucial part of the Reach Out and Read model and are often a family’s first introduction to the program. By reading aloud in the waiting room, volunteers entertain young patients, while providing parents with a model for effective and enjoyable ways to share books with their young children. For more information on volunteering for Reach Out and Read, click here
Adopt a Local Reach Out and Read Program
Reach Out and Read Texas primary care physicians practice medicine in a new way. National research shows that when pediatricians promote literacy according to the ROR model, there is a significant and positive change in parental behavior, beliefs, and attitudes towards reading aloud, as well as improvements in language scores of young children. For more information on how to "Adopt a Local Reach Out and Read Program", click here.
Current Donors:
We appreciate the generous gifts of the following organizations, foundations, and corporations who support our mission.
- Houston Endowment, Inc.
- John P. McGovern Foundation
- Junior League of Houston, Inc.
- Kenedy Memorial Foundation
- Permian Basin Area Foundation
- Reading is Fundamental, Inc.
- Scholastic Inc
- The Brown Foundation, Inc.
- The Clayton Fund
- The Meadows Foundation
We are also grateful for the many individual gifts of volunteer time, funds, and books that support Reach Out and Read statewide and within individual communities.
