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In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama called for making "high-quality preschool available to every single child in America." Economists agree that these investments are not just a good idea, they are critical to ending cycles of poverty.

Read to Succeed Buffalo has received an $18,900 contribution from the Buffalo Rotary Foundation — part of the foundation's three-year, $60,000 investment in the program.

Read to Succeed Buffalo will receive $495,000 to support its early childhood literacy programs from the John R. Oishei Foundation.

Residents in the 14215 ZIP code are seeing the first visible sign that Buffalo Promise Neighborhood is committed to improving the lives of children and families in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods.

Read to Succeed Buffalo Announces Board Appointments.

Read to Succeed Buffalo received a $70,000 funding renewal grant from the The Margaret L. Wendt Foundation.

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.