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FIRST BOOK AND KIDDIE ACADEMY ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP TO DELIVER BOOKS TO CHILDREN IN NEED

 Press Release

Date: 3/8/2010


Demand Studios Freelance Community Provides More Than 16,000 New Books to Children in Need With subheadline:
In the first-ever Write for a Cause program, thousands of Demand Studios freelance writers and editors contributed 128,577 articles during the month of December…

 Press Release

Date: 1/25/2010


Schools and Nonprofits Received More Than 109,000 Books Through Verizon’s Season’s Readings Campaign

 Press Release

Date: 1/21/2010


FIRST BOOK TO HOLD WEST VIRGINIA MEET AND GREET

FIRST BOOK TO HOLD WEST VIRGINIA MEET AND GREET

 Press Release

Date: 12/4/2009


DEMAND MEDIA AND FIRST BOOK PARTNER TO PROVIDE NEW BOOKS TO CHILDREN IN NEED

Month-long Program Encourages Thousands of Demand Media Freelance Writers to Participate to Help Increase Childhood Literacy

 Press Release

Date: 11/30/2009


FIRST BOOK AWARDED CHARITY NAVIGATOR’S HIGHEST FOUR-STAR RATING FOR THIRD CONSECUTIVE YEAR

 Press Release

Date: 11/16/2009


BEST SELLING CHILDREN’S AUTHOR R.L. STINE READS SCARY STORIES TO HARLEM CHILDREN DONATION OF ONE MILLION BOOKS THROUGH FIRST BOOK

There’s Nothing Scarier Than Children Growing up Without Books

 Press Release

Date: 11/2/2009


JAGUAR LAND ROVER PARTNERS WITH FIRST BOOK TO PROMOTE LITERACY IN NEW JERSEY WITH DONATION OF 10,000 NEW BOOKS

 Press Release

Date: 10/28/2009


FIRST BOOK® and Barclays Employees Make a Difference for North Star Academy Charter School Children with 2,000 Book Donation

North Star Academy to Receive Books for Every Student and for School Library

 Press Release

Date: 10/22/2009


A Striped Hat Off to Dr. Seuss:
First Book’s “What Book Got You Hooked?” Campaign Reveals Dr. Seuss’s Beginner Books Got Kids Hooked on Reading

Online voters select Hawaii to receive 50,000 new books

 Press Release

Date: 10/19/2009


First Book Receives U.S. Department of Education Grant To Bring 100,000 Books to Maine Children in Need
Holds Local Community Events to Reach Programs that Need Books

 Press Release

Date: 9/18/2009


National Children’s Literacy Nonprofits Reading Is Fundamental, Reach Out and Read and Pioneers Join First Book to Deliver 98,000 Books

To Honor First Official 9/11 Day of Service
 First Book provides 1.3 Million More Books Nationwide from Alaska and Hawaii to Maine and Florida

 Press Release

Date: 9/14/2009


The Eric Carle Museum Announces 2009 CARLE HONORS RECIPIENTS.

This year’s recipients of the coveted Carle Honors Awards include …Kyle Zimmer, who founded First Book, an organization that has provided more than 65 million new books to tens of thousands of organizations that help children in poverty.

 Press Release

Date: 9/9/2009


First Book Donates 30,000 Books to ‘United We Serve’ Service Project Where President and First Lady Join Hundreds of Congressional Family Members

 Press Release

Date: 6/29/2009


FIRST BOOK® Celebrates Lincoln Legacy Initiative to End Illiteracy with Grants from Wal-Mart and Motorola

Reading party honors Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday at local Clara Barton Elementary School

 Press Release

Date: 2/10/2009


More than 300,000 Children’s Books Reach Children in Need

eBay Foundation and First Book Celebrate with Reading Parties in Three Cities

 Press Release

Date: 1/22/2009


Pi Beta Phi Fraternity to Contribute $1 Million to First Book® 

Multi-Year Partnership Will Provide more than 1 Million New Books to Children in Need

 Press Release

Date: 9/22/2008


FIRST BOOK® HAS JUST ONE QUESTION: WHAT BOOK GOT YOU HOOKED?

National effort to get children hooked on reading will bring 50,000 brand new books to low-income youth in one lucky state

 Press Release

Date: 7/15/2008


Handshake Tour 2008 Aboard the United States Coast Guard’s Tall Ship Eagle Generates New Books for Children in Need from First Book

 Press Release

Date: 7/4/2008


NY Giants Justin Tuck and First Book kick off Tuck’s R.U.S.H. for Literacy Initiative in Alabama

 Press Release

Date: 5/21/2008


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