Reading Buddies
Help children build confidence, literacy skills, and a lifelong love of learning.
Your team will create book-centered experiences that combine storytelling, creativity, and encouragement while providing children with resources that support learning and development.
Full-Service Site-Led
More Than a Storybook
Early literacy helps children build the skills and confidence needed to succeed in school and beyond. For many children, access to books and educational resources can make a meaningful difference in their learning journey.
Reading Matters
Children who are proficient readers by third grade are more likely to succeed in school and beyond.
By assembling Reading Buddies, your team helps provide children with books, learning resources, and a new stuffed friend that encourages reading and imagination.
Through United Way's partnerships with schools and nonprofit organizations, these kits help support children as they build literacy skills, confidence, and a love of reading.
Choose Your Experience
Whether you're looking for a fully facilitated literacy experience or a simplified option for multiple locations, Reading Buddies offers a solution that can be tailored to your team's goals and impact priorities.
⭐ Full-Service
📚 Reading Buddies
Our signature literacy experience featuring a book, a 16" reading companion, and engaging educational themes designed to help children build confidence and a love of learning.
✔ Book
✔ 16" Stuffed Animal
✔ Birth Certificate
✔ Stuffing
✔ Fruit Snack
✔ Drawstring Bag
✔ Personal Note
Choose Your Theme
📚 Literacy 💰 Financial Literacy 🧪 STEM (Lab Buddy)Site-Led
🧸 Pocket Pals
A simplified literacy experience that is easy to distribute across offices, remote teams, and large volunteer groups.
✔ Children's Book
✔ 8" Animal Friend
✔ Birth Certificate
✔ Stuffing
✔ Themed Bag
✔ Personal Note
Choose Your Theme
🐄 Farm Friends 🐠 Under the SeaCompare Your Service Option
| Feature |
Site-Led: Pocket Pals |
Full-Service: Reading Buddies ⭐ |
|---|---|---|
| Leads volunteers in kit assembly | Your team | Our team |
| Order and prepare project materials | ✔ | ✔ |
| Delivery or shipping to your office(s) | Available | ✔ Included |
| Coordinate delivery of completed kits to community partners | ✔ | ✔ |
| We handle setup and organization for you | — | ✔ |
| Provide agency speaker & impact story | — | ✔ |
| Photo booth & music | — | ✔ |
Ready to Inspire a Love of Reading?
Bring your team together to create Reading Buddies that support literacy, learning, and confidence for children throughout our community.
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