Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading Receives National Recognition for Pandemic Programming

The Giving Coast

 The national Campaign for Grade-Level Reading has honored the Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading as a Bright Spot community in 2021. The regional campaign was recognized for its innovative “THIS BOOK IS COOL!” virtual reading web series that helped children from asset-limited families continue their progress toward third-grade reading proficiency last summer during the pandemic. In addition, the Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading provided up to 20 free books featured in the webisodes to qualifying students, thanks to the generous support of The Patterson Foundation. In 2020, more than 1,000 children across the Suncoast region qualified to receive free brooks through the “THIS BOOK IS COOL!” program. By the end of the summer, more than 5,300 children participated and read nearly 100,000 books. 

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