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Read and Feed Appoints Advisory Council Members

June 3, 2016

Read and Feed |

Cary, NC, June 3, 2016– Read and Feed, a non-profit focused on improving literacy among K-5 at-risk children from low-income Wake County families, has appointed Advisory Council members for 2016-19. Read and Feed partners with Wake County public schools to...

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Read and Feed – A Collaborative Ministry

April 20, 2016

North Carolina Conference: United Methodist Church |

The Fuquay-Varina Community Read and Feed program is a collaborative effort with Sunrise UMC, First UMC (Fuquay-Varina) and Fuquay-Varina UMC as the primary partners. The Read and Feed model was developed in 2007 in Wake County with the mission of...

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Read and Feed seeks more volunteers at Zebulon Boys & Girls Club

February 19, 2016

The News & Observer |

A unique youth enrichment program at the Zebulon Boys & Girls Club has already yielded some success stories since its implementation in September. Four club members graduated at the end of the fall semester from the program introduced by Read...

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Carolina Hurricanes players Pesce and Slavin Volunteer with Kids ‘N Community Foundation Grant Recipient

January 20, 2016

Carolina Hurricanes |

Defensemen Brett Pesce and Jaccob Slavin have been a key pieces of the Hurricanes' Red, White and Blue Line this season. On Tuesday, the young defensemen brought a new skill set to the Redvolution - reading. Pesce and Slavin teamed...

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Founder named N&O Tarheel of the Week

August 22, 2015

The News & Observer |

Jan Frantz retired early from a successful business career, thinking she’d like to volunteer a bit between traveling and spending time with her daughters. But within a few years, she found herself in a specially retrofitted recreational vehicle, serving homemade...

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Helping Fill the Summer Meal Gap

June 30, 2014

North Carolina Health News |

On a hot summer evening in June, a group of children waited in the parking lot of a low-income community in Holly Springs to sign up for hot meals and one-on-one reading assistance from the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle and Read...

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