Hermanowski Family Foundation Initial Request Form

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Organization Name: Reach Out and Read Greater Cleveland
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Mailing Address: 4340 State Road, Suite 5
City: Cleveland
State: Ohio
Postal Code: 44109
Main Phone: 216-214-1740
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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: 03/19/2021
Requested Amount: $5,000

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

The best opportunity to influence a child’s future is in the first five years, a critical window of rapid brain development that does not occur at any other time. When families read aloud to their young children, they can give them a better start to life. Shared reading helps develop strong parent-child bonds, builds resiliency, and buffers toxic stress.
Our evidence-based early literacy model is incorporated into regular pediatric visits where pediatricians, family medicine doctors and nurse practitioners, leading experts on healthy child development, can positively influence parental behavior. At more than 10 routine health checkups (6 months – 5 years) clinicians model reading aloud with parents, communicate the importance of reading aloud to their children, and provide a new, developmentally appropriate book to take home and build the family’s home library. Our clinics support a literacy-rich environment that include gently used children’s books, literacy materials, and/or volunteer readers to model techniques for reading aloud.
We are engaged with 300 medical providers in 35 health centers in northeast Ohio (Cuyahoga and Lorain counties) across health systems and federally qualified health centers. In 2020, we provided 27,500 books for well child visits reaching over 19,500 children and families with three quarters of these children from low-income families.
Your partnership will support our programming in these health centers and allow us to expand Reach Out and Read to more children by on-boarding two new health centers in 2021.

Total Project Budget: $180,583

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 committed), Sherwin Williams Foundation ($5,000, committed), In-Kind Book Donations ($10,000, committed), United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland ($5,000, potential), Individual Giving ($10,750, potential), Cleveland Clinic ($20,000 potential), Abington Foundation ($15,000, potential), Thomas H White Foundation ($12,000, potential), Union Home Mortgage Foundation ($2,500, potential), Robert F. Beard Charitable Foundation ($10,000, potential)

Project Duration: January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2021
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.): Ms.
Contact First Name: Lynn
Contact Last Name: Foran
Contact Title: Executive Director
Contact Phone: 216-214-1740
Contact Email: lynn.foran@reachoutandreadgc.org