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LITERACY NEWS Volunteer USA Announces Matching Funds to Help Communities Support Family Literacy Academies. Click here for more information. How can you help the Family Literacy Initiative? Please click here to learn more. |
 Bush Family,Britto Support Family Literacy. Internationally acclaimed artist Romero Britto and the Bush Family unveiled his painting dedicated to family literacy at the 7th Annual Celebration of Reading. The painting, titled "Reading," is signed by Columba Bush, Jeb Bush, Barbara Bush, Britto, President George H.W. Bush and Doro Bush Koch, along with Celebration of Reading presenting authors Haven Kimmel and Eric Carle. The painting is being offered for sale by special invitation to benefit the Florida Family Literacy Initiative, managed by nonprofit Volunteer Florida Foundation. Limited edition, signed prints of "Reading" also are available. Click here for more information. Bush Family, Donors Raise Nearly $1.3 Million for Florida Family Literacy Initiative February 26, 2007 Bonita Spring, Fla. – Gov. Jeb Bush, President George H.W. Bush, and Mrs. Barbara Bush announced tonight that the 7th Annual Celebration of Reading has raised nearly $1.3 million for family literacy, with an additional in-kind support of nearly $1.5 million. The funds and in-kind support will go to the Florida Family Literacy Initiative, managed by nonprofit Volunteer Florida Foundation. “I am grateful to our many Celebration of Reading sponsors tonight who have together donated tremendous financial and in-kind support for our family literacy initiative in the coming year. This will go a long way in helping families achieve better lives through education,” said Gov. Bush. “I am also thankful to artist Romero Britto for his generous contribution in generating enthusiasm for, and exemplifying the beauty of, reading together through an original painting created for our initiative.” Gov. Bush, President George H.W. Bush, Mrs. Barbara Bush, Mrs. Columba Bush and Doro Bush Koch joined internationally acclaimed artist Britto in unveiling an original oil painting for the Florida Family Literacy Initiative, just prior to the Celebration of Reading event at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort & Spa in Bonita Springs. The painting, titled “Reading,” is signed by Britto and the Bush family. The Britto painting will be offered for sale by private invitation through Volunteer Florida Foundation. The Foundation also is offering limited edition prints of the art. Proceeds will benefit family literacy in Florida, and will help fund a new curriculum that weaves together art and literacy for preschoolers that can be used with their parents in family literacy programs. The Celebration of Reading event was hosted by the Bush family. Best-selling authors Eric Carle, Haven Kimmel and Doro Bush Koch read to an audience of nearly 700 sponsors and guests. About Celebration of Reading Celebration of Reading, is an annual event that generates grant funding for family literacy programs throughout Florida through the Florida Family Literacy Initiative. Families benefit through a variety of programs that improve overall education for both parents and their children, beginning with literacy. Florida’s Celebration of Reading began in 2001, with proceeds to date funding more than 100 family literacy programs throughout the state, helping nearly 15,000 Floridians. |
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