Ellen Broich

Ellen Broich's Fundraiser

Join me in donating to the Iowa Book Challenge and rallying your friends, family, and networks to support Reach Out and Read's work. image

Join me in donating to the Iowa Book Challenge and rallying your friends, family, and networks to support Reach Out and Read's work.

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$300 towards $1,500

Help me foster a love of reading from the start!

I am partnering with a clinic so integral to the children and families in Des Moines, Primary Health Care, Inc. If my team raises the most money, they will receive a $1,500 gift certificate for books ensuring that children and families will continue to get the books they need. All our participating clinics will receive a brand new box of books.
Primary Health Care, Inc. serves low income families from all over the Des Moines area, Ames, and Marshalltown. The majority of our families consider themselves bilingual or of Latinx background. About 38% of our patients are Hispanic, 10% African American, 12% Asian, 30% White, and 10% other.

I feel fortunate to have grown up in an environment surrounded by books and reading. With a mom who was a reading teacher, and a dad who was a journalist, my siblings and I were always reading. My husband and I have three young kids, and it is a joy to see the love of reading growing in each of them.

What ROR does for the clinic and families: Early exposure to language and books has so many benefits for kids, and Reach Out and Read Iowa helps expand that opportunity to more families by distributing and modeling books through their well-child visits with their primary care providers. Many of those families are more at risk of future school failure, and it’s a great opportunity to help support those kids when they are young. Especially throughout the pandemic, our family has been very grateful for the support of our pediatrician and other medical professionals, and I love this opportunity to help support them as well.

ROR is critical to Primary Health Care, Inc. as many of parents struggle to find the time and resources to build at home libraries. This program is instrumental in increasing patients' exposure to books and words.

Please help if you can!

Just a small donation will go a long way to help reach my goal for Reach Out & Read Iowa! Let's make a difference to all our littlest learners!