Born to Read is one of three signature projects of the Rotary Club of Traverse Bay Sunrise. Our mission is to promote early literacy by spreading the word about the importance of reading, talking, and singing with children everyday starting at birth – and even during pregnancy.
Born to Read is an all volunteer effort, made possible by working closely with collaborating partners, including: the Traverse Area District Library, Healthy Futures at Munson Medical Center, the Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District’s Early Childhood programs, Great Start and 5toOne, and the Everybody Reads Network/Read to Me collaborative, as well as other community organizations who share our mission.
Thanks to our partners, Born to Read is an all volunteer project.
Since 2011 Born to Read has collaborated with:
Delivers introductory Born to Read post card with tips for reading with babies to expectant parents in last trimester visit, followed by Welcome Baby packet with free book to parents of newborns. Healthy Futures also sends texts with age appropriate developmental information to parents of children birth to five.
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Provides tote bag with free book to new parents and to families with children birth to three participating in the library’s summer reading program. Also offers weekly texts with early literacy tips and fun activities to parents of children birth to three. TADL hosts Born to Read training workshops, meetings, and other activities.
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Contributes expertise and programs that support parents of young children and provides written materials, translation, and training to help achieve Born to Read goals.
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Provides close to home neighborhood centers with play groups and other activities for families with young children. 5toOne works closely with Born to Read to provide literacy information, books, and volunteers to encourage reading with children right from the start.
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National campaign that brings partners together to spread the word that reading aloud is the single most important activity that parents can do to prepare their child for success in school and life. Read Aloud provides Born to Read with campaign materials, statistics, and outreach strategies.
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We connect and mobilize the caring power of our local communities to advance the common good.
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We are a 501(c)(3) that distributes literacy materials to underserved children in Northern Lower Michigan.
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Read to Me is a regional collaboration of organizations working together to help your earliest learners to be READING READY. These organizations provide resources and literacy resources as well as family events and other services.
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Tamarack Holdings is a passionate group of professionals leading our family of businesses to successfully reimagine the food and beverage business, one bite at a time. We are strategists, land-use planners, technologists, designers, engineers, marketers, and number crunchers.
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Horizon Books was established in 1961 and is still family owned and operated. That amounts to 60 years of bookselling in downtown Traverse City. In that time we’ve grown to two locations in Northern Michigan: retrofitting a JC Penney building in Traverse City and the Milliken’s department store in downtown Cadillac. All of our stores have cozy fireplaces, coffee bars, loooong hours and are in downtown locations.
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Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is dedicated to inspiring a love of reading by gifting books free of charge to children from birth to age five, through funding shared by Dolly Parton and local community partners in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and Republic of Ireland.
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