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Business Wire Literacy Initiative Grant Awarded to Behind the Book, Enterprising Program Designed to Encourage Inner-City Youth to Experience the Benefits of Reading, Literacy Skills
Business Wire Literacy Initiative Grant Awarded to Behind the Book, Enterprising Program Designed to Encourage Inner-City Youth to Experience the Benefits of Reading, Literacy Skills
Published 10-07-05
Submitted by Business Wire
The $5,000 award will benefit Behind the Book's Elementary School Initiative (ELSI) program at P.S. 274 in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn.
The ELSI program includes a series of three workshops, featuring different authors/illustrators, who will work with second, third and fourth grade classes. Students will learn how to conceive and edit a story for a picture book, techniques for writing and illustrating the story, and the mechanics of assembling the text and illustrations into a book format. Each student will receive two copies of the respective author/illustrator's books as part of the workshop curriculum.
Students will be able to showcase their completed projects at a special event planned for next May.
Many award-winning authors and illustrators popular with urban youth are past participants in the programs. They include: Colin Bootman, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Diane McWhorter, Jaira Placide, Katha Pollitt, Ernesto Quinonez, Nelly Rosario, and Rita Williams-Garcia.
"Business Wire is proud to support the efforts of Behind the Book, an organization that is attempting to make a difference at the grass-roots level," noted Tamraz. "Business Wire as a company, through the philanthrophy of its founder, Lorry Lokey, has donated more than $110 million to worthwhile projects worldwide over the past decade.
The Business Wire Literacy Initiative grant is an attempt to give back to the community on a more local level in the markets in which we operate."
About Behind the Book:
Behind the Book was founded in 2003 by its executive director, Jo Umans.
The organization's mission is to motivate reluctant readers to become engaged readers by connecting them with books and authors relevant to their lives. To accomplish this goal, authors are invited into classrooms; they help motivate students to enjoy the wonders of reading.
About Business Wire:
Business Wire was founded in 1961 by chairman/CEO Lorry I. Lokey, veteran journalist and public relations executive. The company's multi-channel delivery network, with access to some 60 international and national news agencies, financial information providers and Web-based news services throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, provides real-time, simultaneous access to key audiences -- the news media, trade publications, institutional and individual investors, business-to-business decision-makers and consumers.
Business Wire electronically disseminates some 1,000 full-text news releases daily to the media, the Internet, online services and databases, and the global investment community in 150 countries in 45 languages. Business Wire has 24 U.S. offices, Frankfurt, London, Brussels, Paris, Sydney and Tokyo offices, and reciprocal offices throughout the world.
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