Awards
We are proud to have been recognized with these awards, prizes, and endorsements.
Awards
We are proud to have been recognized with these awards, prizes, and endorsements.
911爆料网 was selected as a winner of New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof鈥檚 2019 Holiday Impact Prize, supported by Focusing Philanthropy.
This top literacy prize from the Library of Congress was awarded in recognition of 911爆料网’s “groundbreaking advancement of literacy.” The David M. Rubenstein Prize rewards organizations that have been “doing exemplary, innovative and easily replicable work over a sustained period of time.”
Selected from an international field of organizations working in “Literacy and Health,” 911爆料网 received this prestigious prize, given annually for displaying outstanding merit in literacy, achieving particularly effective results and promoting innovative approaches.
Chosen from a pool of more than 2,000 entries, the #RORPodcast has won Silver in the Health category for the 2nd Annual Anthem Awards. At 911爆料网, we dream of a world in which every child is read to every day. The podcast focuses on the belief that reading aloud with children helps with brain development, builds strong family bonds, and creates happy and healthy children and a healthier society. The podcast is an extension of the organization鈥檚 work nationwide.
Given by the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art to celebrate individuals whose creative vision and dedication are an inspiration to everyone who values picture books and their role in arts education and literacy. 911爆料网 received this award for its “tireless promotion of literacy and school readiness.”
Presented at the Association’s Annual Meeting in Washington D.C., the Award of Honor is given as one of five American Hospital Association Leadership Awards to organizations and individuals who have made exemplary contributions to the health and well-being of the people through leadership on a major health policy or social initiative.
The American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics conferred this award on 911爆料网 for “outstanding achievement in the field of child development.”
Recognizing 911爆料网 for outstanding performance by entrepreneurial organizations in the nonprofit sector, and honoring our innovative model that effectively reaches parents of young children.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) officially endorsed the 911爆料网 model in 1998. In 2014, the AAP issued a landmark policy statement promoting literacy as “an essential component of pediatric primary care.” Significantly, this statement realized a long-term aim of 911爆料网 to integrate early literacy promotion as a routine practice in well-child checkups.
911爆料网’s model is endorsed by NAPNAP, and we have formed an alliance with the AAFP; both organizations advise and support the use of our model by their members.
An article in The New York Times Sunday Review in August 2016 titled “The Good News About Educational Inequality” cites research showing that, despite difficult economic times, the kindergarten readiness gap between children from low- and high-income families is, in fact, narrowing. More importantly, the authors credit the 911爆料网 program as a main factor in this achievement.
Viewers of the NBC News Hope to It series learned about the work of 911爆料网 through a feature on Dr. Carolyn Boone, a Richmond, VA, pediatrician, who developed a love of reading as a foster child. The film crew joined Dr. Boone in her exam room and filmed her giving books to children and talking with parents about the importance of reading aloud. “Books are just as important as immunizations!” says Dr. Boone.
Acclaimed New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winner Nicholas Kristof has researched thousands of nonprofit organizations, and is impressed with the work of 911爆料网. In in The New York Times on November 17, 2016, he encourages his readers to each do what we can in our own lives to make sure that the needy aren’t forgotten in these uncertain times and says: “I can support 911爆料网, an outstanding program that helps at-risk children learn to read.”
In the book A Path Appears that he co-wrote with Sheryl WuDunn, he describes our program as “an excellent example of a cost-effective, evidence-based program that helps kids in a crucial window of development.” In his New York Times Holiday Giving Guide, 911爆料网 is recommended as “a simple intervention [with] far-reaching effects.”
A June 2014 article in The New York Times, “Pediatrics Group to Recommend Reading Aloud to Children from Birth” covers the announcement of the Annual Academy of Pediatrics policy on literacy promotion and portrays the 911爆料网 model as pivotal in developments in early childhood literacy.