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A CALL for FRIENDS of FREADOM®
Do you care about children at risk of academic and societal failure? Do you believe reading offers a way out of the tragic futures these failures predict? Do you want to take action to change those futures? If so, join us at a meeting on Wednesday, May 11, 2019 from...
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FREADOM® FUNDRAISER FOR KIDS
SAVE THE DATE! TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2019 FREADOM® FUNDRAISER FOR KIDS - Helping kids at risk succeed in school and in life COCKTAIL RECEPTION Fun, Food, Entertainment 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Chief O'Neill's Restaurant and Pub 3471 N. Elston Avenue Chicago, IL 60618...
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BASKETS, BUNNIES, AND BOOKS
What? Pretty baskets of plush bunnies and Spring blossoms hiding behind them - in a nest of colorful paper grass - a treasure trove of early literacy-related supplies including: books, coloring books, first words, numbers, and shapes flash cards, crayons, pencils,...
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EASY AS ZERO To THREE
The Zero To Three Organization is the national, cutting edge source for information on early childhood development. Their video "A Window To The World: Promoting Early Language and Literacy Development" shows that investing efforts and resources in a child's language...
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Remembering a Legend
In honor of the fourth and final week of African American History Month, February 2019, we are honoring Dr. Margaret Burroughs and posting a video of her reading her poem "My Philosophy".A legend - even in her own time - was Dr. Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs. She was...
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Hey Black Child
To celebrate the third week of African American History Month, February 2019, we are posting a video of "HistoryMaker" Useni Eugene Perkins reading his poem "Hey Black Child." The poem calls to Black children to learn all they can, to be all they can be and so...
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In the Beginning Was The Word
Over and over we read stories of those who found their way out of illiteracy by using a dictionary as the break out tool in their struggle to learn and succeed. The story of Malcolm X is perhaps the best known. Illiterate and incarcerated, he taught himself to read...
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‘Twas Two Days Before Christmas…
Last Minute Amazon shoppers - Remember!"When you shop. Amazon gives."When you choose The Freadom® Road Foundation as your Amazon Smile charitable partner, your gift to a loved one "magically" transforms - without cost to you - into a gift for a needy child in our...
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When do prisoners wrongs end, and their rights begin?
In this TED Talk we see Benny Lee tell his compelling story beginning when he was a fourteen-year-old gang leader in Chicago, to decades of his imprisonment, to his participation in a drug treatment program and to his pursuit of employment and education resulting in...
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NEW YORK CONNECTIONS
Pictured left to right: John Bunn and Liska BlodgettOn Monday, December 3, 2018, a landmark meeting took place in New York City. Maria Hayley, founder of The Freadom® Road Foundation, headquartered in Chicago, met with John Bunn, founder of the Brooklyn, New York...
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LOST, then FOUND
An opportunity to visit New York City became the opportunity for The Freadom® Road Foundation's President Maria Hayley to visit the New York Public Library.On Thursday, November 29, 2018, she was happily "lost" in the treasure trove of this world-renowned...
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Pretty in Pink and Smart from the Start!
We recently heard good news from Monique McBride, one of the first moms in our Freadom® Families program - an early literacy initiative in collaborative partnership with Family Support organization Family Focus Englewood (Chicago). Ms. McBride shared with us that she...
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