KNTR Receives $2,500 from Employees Community Fund of Boeing Arizona

By Denise Gary Photographs © Robert Gary It is a rare privilege to be able to personally address a grant-making board to say thank you and describe the progress Kids Need to Read (KNTR) is making due to the company’s generosity, but I recently had the honor to do just that at an Employees Community […]

Family Literacy Festival this Weekend!

By Denise Gary Photographs © Denise Gary & Robert Gary Saturday, October 27, 2012 Phoenix Library Friends 35th Anniversary Family Literacy Festival Margaret T. Hance Park (next to Burton Barr Public Library) Phoenix, Arizona 10:00 AM–2:00 PM Come on out and join us at Margaret T. Hance Park for a free event celebrating reading and […]

Fry’s Fund Awards $2,000 to KNTR “Reading Revolution”

Written by Denise Gary and Craig Kyzar Photographs © Robert Gary The fall semester is underway and that means Kids Need to Read has been busy preparing for a new year of Reading Revolution, the groundbreaking literacy program for middle school students produced in partnership with Arizona State University and ASU Preparatory Academy, an inner-city […]