Editor Walter Anderson grew up in a violent, poverty-stricken neighborhood and books were his key to survival. “I could open a book and I could be anything. I could be anywhere. I could be anyone… I read myself out of poverty long before I worked myself out of poverty.”
In 2004, RIF distributed 17 million books to five million children, but 1 million children remain on a waitlist for our services. Your donation helps us inspire a lifelong love of reading in America's most vulnerable children.
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RIF Gets High Marks: - For the fourth consecutive year RIF has received a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator. Learn more ... - Reader's Digest included RIF in its 2003 list of "The Best Charities: Who's worth trusting with your donated dollars."
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"The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds." Thomas Higginson
