2021–22 annual impact report

In the 2021–22 school year, the Page Ahead community reached farther than we ever have before to give kids the chance to read:

264,819 books

22,208 kids

156 schools

Page Ahead's annual impact report is now available.

Find out how the home libraries YOU built for kids last year made a difference!

Visit bit.ly/PA22report now to learn more.

May 2023 newsletter

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It’s time for Book Up Summer!

The Page Ahead book fairs have begun! Through the end of June, more than 20,000 children will select their twelve brand-new books to keep and read over the summer. The Book Up Summer program gives these young students the tools and incentive they need to read during summer vacation.

Grounded in current literacy research and made possible by donors like you, this evidence-based reading program is offered to elementary schools in communities of concentrated low income through Page Ahead’s partnerships with school districts across Washington state.

This year, new schools in the Franklin Pierce (Pierce County), Renton (King County), Sunnyside (Yakima County), and Columbia and Mary Walker (both Stevens County) school districts are joining Book Up Summer. Thank you to our amazing community for providing the support we need to expand this important program and provide home libraries for even more young readers!

Teachers love Book Up Summer, too!

You gave BIG!

We’d like to thank all of the donors who gave to Page Ahead for GiveBIG 2023! Thank you for making sure kids in need get a great start with reading. You helped raise more than $9,600—enough to give more than 190 children a home library for their own this summer! And you maxed out our $3,000 match challenge from generous Page Ahead supporters—THANK YOU!  

Dear donor, you have all the books i love! I can’t wait to read outside on my swing. i can’t wait to learn obout all the animals! i’ll learn lots of things! the books aer Awesome!

—Wren

22,208 students had books last year thanks to the Page Ahead community

Read all about it: Page Ahead’s annual impact report for the 2021–22 school year is now available!

Find out about how the home libraries Page Ahead built for kids made a difference last year by visiting bit.ly/PA22report.

Community partners

We would like to thank First Tech Federal Credit Union, the Adobe Foundation, and Coaching for Literacy for their recent generous grants. Between them all, they’ve built home libraries for 850 kids—that’s the equivalent of all the second graders we serve in the Highline school district. Thank you for your continued support to help students learn and grow!

A Taste for Reading 2023

Thank you so much for everyone who attended or watched the 20th annual A Taste for Reading!

Check out the event video below if you missed it (or you want to revisit that wonderful Readers’ Theater performance of The Storybook Knight by the great Broadview-Thomson Players). And you can still donate to support our important work here.

Thank you to our corporate sponsors and partners, including Boeing and EY, as well as all our attendees, donors, volunteers, and speakers!