Hermanowski Family Foundation Initial Request Form

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Organization Name: Reach Out and Read Greater Cleveland
Legal Name (if Different): Reach Out and Read Greater Cleveland
Also Known As:
Mailing Address: 4340 State Road, Suite 5
City: Cleveland
State: OH
Postal Code: 44109
Main Phone: 2162141740
Main Fax:
Organization Website: www.reachoutandreadgc.org
Employer ID Number: 34-1931851
Organization Tax Status: 501(c)(3)

Proposal Information

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Today’s Date: 03/21/2022
Requested Amount: $7,500

Project Title: Integrating Literacy Promotion into Pediatric Care
Project Description:

Reach Out and Read (ROR) is an evidence-based intervention which supports healthy brain development and family relationships to mitigate the determinants of health. The program turns routine pediatric visits (infancy to 5 years) into opportunities to empower parents to build language-rich interactions and book-centered routines into their families’ daily lives. Trained doctors use a book as a tool to prescribe reading by modeling read-aloud strategies while teaching and modeling for parents about how to share books and why it is important. Parents are engaged in the conversation as the provider offers anticipatory guidance and emphasizes how reading brings the family together. Every child takes a brand new, specially selected, age appropriate book home to keep.

ROR’s evidence-based model has shown in twenty-one peer-reviewed studies that parents in a ROR program read more often with their child, families are more likely to report they enjoy reading together, and children’s language development is improved. Locally, the quantity and quality of time spent reading is improving after a family’s experience with Reach Out and Read with a 50% increase in parents reading daily (source: 2021 annual parent survey).

We prioritize working with clinics that serve families living in poverty who are impacted by multiple social-determinants of health. Our program is integrated into 37 outpatient pediatric and family medicine health clinics and one Newborn Intensive Care Unit primarily in Cleveland and the first-ring suburbs reaching more than 20,000 children per year. Seventy-seven percent of the children we serve rely on public health insurance or are uninsured and 71% of the children we reach are BIPOC. Supporting our network of providers with training, resources, and new children’s books to facilitate supportive, educational conversations with parents, we are building a foundation for life-long success in our youngest citizens.

Total Project Budget: $201,500

Other Funding
Sources For The Project (Committed & Potential): Bruening Foundation ($40,000 committed) MetroHealth System ($20,000 committed) University Hospitals ($20,000 committed) PNC Bank Foundation ($20,000 potential) Sherwin Williams Foundation ($5,000, committed) In-Kind Book Donations ($10,000, potential) United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland ($5,000, potential) Individual Giving ($12,000 potential) Corporate Giving ($5,000, committed) Cleveland Clinic ($20,000 potential) Abington Foundation ($15,000, potential) Thomas H White Foundation ($12,000, potential) Union Home Mortgage Foundation ($5,000, potential) Healthy Lakewood Foundation ($5,000, potential)

Project Duration: January 1, 2023 – December 31, 2023
Geographical Area Served: Cuyahoga and Lorain counties in Ohio
Age Group To Be Served: Birth – 5 years of age

Contact Information

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Contact Prefix (Mr,Mrs etc.): Mrs.
Contact First Name: Lynn
Contact Last Name: Foran
Contact Title: Executive Director
Contact Phone: 2162141740
Contact Email: lynn.foran@reachoutandreadgc.org