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Read to Succeed Buffalo has received a $115,000 funding boost from the John R. Oishei Foundation. The grant supports operations in 2012, and follows previous grants from the foundation through a collaboration between Oishei, the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo and the Margaret L. Wendt Foundation.

The John R. Oishei Foundation gave Read to Succeed Buffalo a grant Friday of $115,000 renewing its commitment to the early childhood literacy organization.

Organizers of the Books for Kids book drive on Wednesday highlighted Shanya's story to underscore the importance literacy, which The Buffalo News-sponsored initiative emphasizes. The book that Shanya read had come from the literacy organization Project Flight, which partners with The News on Books for Kids.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo Public Schools and Read to Succeed Buffalo have unveiled a plan to compete for the All America City Grade-Level Reading Award.

Last year, the Annie E. Casey Foundation issued a special report, "Early Warning! Why Reading by the End of Third Grade Matters," which has become a clarion call to communities to support children's reading success by the end of third grade.

Local education advocates are preparing for Buffalo's entry in the All-America City Grade-Level Reading Award competition.

Launched last month by Read to Succeed Buffalo, with help from the Rotary Club of Buffalo and the Literacy Coalition, the Dolly Parton Imagination Library is targeted to children in the 14215 ZIP code area on Buffalo's East Side.

Buffalo's Promise Neighborhood project was one of five in the nation to secure federal funding to provide "cradle to career" services for children in an effort to improve educational outcomes among low-income areas, federal officials announced today.

Read to Succeed Buffalo launches a free book distribution program at 11 a.m. today at its offices at 392 Pearl St. The program is designed to ensure young children in one East Side neighborhood will have books of their very own.

Read to Succeed Buffalo held this "story time" event at its office on Pearl Street Saturday morning. The goal of this not-for-profit group is to raise the literacy rate of children through 3rd grade in the city of Buffalo.

Read to Succeed Buffalo (RTSB) is bringing books directly in the hands of young children on the City's East Side. With the help of a Buffalo Rotary Foundation grant, RTSB was able to bring the Dolly Patron's Imagination Library to families with young children.

It wasn't fundraiser, but a "friendraiser" that drew together nearly 200 local educators, business and community leaders Thursday in an effort to improve student achievement in Buffalo.

With more than 27,500 young children registered for Read for the Record, Read to Succeed Buffalo has shattered our local record, set last year, to get the most people reading the same children's book on the same day.

Young people are getting a lesson in literacy and helping to set a record at the same time.

Exotic animals in red sleepwear inspire 28,000 area children to join rest of nation in reading same picture book on same day

What's black and white and read all over?

There's a llama theme at area schools and businesses this week. Millions of people will read the book Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney on Thursday, October 6, 2011. That's because it is Jumpstart's "Read for the Record" day.

Read for the Record, the national celebration of reading that tries to set a record for the most people reading the same book on the same day, will take place on Oct. 6, and Read to Succeed Buffalo is looking for participants.

Parents and students are committing to reading during summer break. The ceremony at the Martha Mitchell Community Center celebrated Buffalo's family literacy group, Read to Succeed.

If it truly takes a village to raise a child, then Read to Succeed Buffalo is more than doing its part. This summer, Read to Succeed community outreach coordinator Deborah Porter has initiated the Family Literacy Program, which encourages children to actively engage in reading while incorporating their parents into the process by providing workshops that assist them in building a culture of literacy at home.

Read to Succeed will see a management shift this week as Anne Ryan takes over as executive director, effective May 2.

For Felicia Santiago, working with children is more than job, it's a passion.

Read to Succeed Buffalo appointed Anne S. Ryan executive director.

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Read Across America! - Principal Molly Halady of Saint Benedict School in Amherst brought the Cat in the Hat to school March 2 in celebration of Reading and the Birthday of Dr. Seuss. The National Education Association's Read Across America is a nationwide celebration of reading.

For the past three years, Read to Succeed Buffalo has been working to help better prepare children for kindergarten by promoting literacy and reading throughout the city. On March 2, they will be participating in the National Education Association's (NEA) Read Across America event.

Read to Succeed Buffalo's Community Art Project fosters family literacy by drawing on the visual arts to encourage a passion for the written word, and its response has been extraordinary.

Read To Succeed Buffalo has united with local artist Brian Nesline to unveil the Letters for Literacy project, a unique holiday gift appropriate for children and adults.

On Thursday, December 9th Read To Succeed Buffalo will unite with local artist Brian Nesline to unveil the Letters for Literacy project, a unique holiday gift appropriate for children and adults.

Read to Succeed Buffalo is an example of how local foundations are abandoning passive check writing and now are working to encourage innovation, overseeing investments, encouraging collaboration and creating programs.

A new Literacy Success Center, sponsored by Read to Succeed Buffalo and the Community Action Organization of Erie County, has opened in the CAO Edward A. Saunders Community Center, 2777 Bailey Ave.

Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda Union Free School District Superintendent Mark P. Mondanaro noticed the irony of the title of the book he was going to read to third-grade students in Bridget Spitler's class at Edison Elementary School. The Superintendent, a former English teacher, was participating in the "Read for the Record" literacy awareness initiative that hoped to break the world record for the most people reading the same book on the same day.

A world record could now be in the works. It's called Read for the Record, a campaign aimed at encouraging literacy. Community leaders have now joined schools, child care centers, and community organizations in an attempt to break the world record for the number of children reading the same book on the same day.

Smallwood School: Grace Jamieson, 7, reads from "The Snowy Day" to her second-grade class at Smallwood Drive School, Snyder. The students joined others nationally in a bid get the most children reading the same book on the same day.

Read to Succeed Buffalo is going to try to break a world record today. They're joining in a nationwide effort to get the biggest number of children reading the same book on the same day, or being read to from the book. The idea is to stress the importance of literacy for youngsters. The book in question? "The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats, a 1963 Caldecott Award winner and the first full-color picture book to feature a small hero who is black.

On Thursday, October 7th, thousands of local children, educators and adults, passionate about literacy will join a national movement attempting to set the world record for the largest number of children reading the same book on the same day with a participating adult.

For the third year in a row, a local children's literacy nonprofit has joined a national effort to encourage adults and young children to read the same book on the same day: On Thursday, schools and day care centers throughout Western New York will join a national project and read "The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats.

A collaborative group in the City of Buffalo has won a $500,000 federal grant to help support children and families living in poverty.

A local collaborative led by M&T Bank has been awarded $500,000 from the federal government to help build a "Buffalo Promise Neighborhood" to provide a network of support services to children living in one of the city's poorest areas.

Before you head home tonight, stop down to 392 Pearl Street. There, at The Read to Succeed Buffalo Community Art Project, a reception will be held for twelve local artists who have donated their efforts to promote literacy.