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 […]

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 […]

Reading Revolution: ASU Prep Students Demonstrate Proactive Solutions

by Denise Gary Photographs © Robert Gary “Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible — the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.” —Virginia Satir The quote above could easily be describing Reading Revolution, the […]

KNTR Receives American Woodmark Foundation Grant

By Denise Gary Photographs © Robert Gary Kids Need to Read has received a $1,000 grant from American Woodmark Foundation to be used toward Reading Revolution, our pilot program aimed at increasing literacy rates and decreasing dropout rates among disadvantaged middle school students. Kids Need to Read and Arizona State University have been working together […]

Reading Revolution: Inspiring Positive Life Paradigms

By Denise Gary Photographs © Robert Gary I learned my first life lesson of emotional suffering in others when I was in fifth grade. A paradigm of compassion and respect that would last throughout my lifetime came together in one fateful moment of despair expressed directly to me by a sad, neglected girl cruelly referred […]