Born To Read, Inc. Receives Grant from 100 Women Who Care Beaufort for $13325

BEAUFORT, S.C. - Oct. 5, 2018 - PRLog -- Born To Read, Inc. is excited to announce it has received a $13325.00 grant from 100 Women Who Care Beaufort. These funds are earmarked to support benefactors North of the Broad.

Born To Read's trained volunteers visit new parents in the birthing centers at Beaufort Memorial Hospital, Hilton Head Hospital and Coastal Carolina Hospital and bring new parents a gift bag containing two books for the baby, a bib, a shirt and other informational items. While visiting, volunteers advise parents of the importance of daily reading and talking with their babies starting at birth.

Children's academic successes at ages 9 and 10 can be attributed to the amount of talk they hear from birth through age 3. Source: ZeroToThree

"On behalf of the Board of Directors of Born To Read, Inc. I would like to say, 'thank you' to 100 Women Who Care for this generous grant to use to support the Born to Read Programs North of the Broad. In 2017 Born To Read served over 1200 families in the Beaufort area." stated Janie Ephland, Executive Director, Born to Read, Inc.

100 Women Who Care is a group of more than 100 Beaufort area women who come together four times a year to pool our resources and contribute to local worthy non-profits.

About Born to Read, Inc.:

Born To Read Inc. is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit charitable organization promoting early literacy in the Lowcountry. Since the inception of the program our volunteers have made more than 18,000 visits to new parents in the local Beaufort County South Carolina Birthing Centers. More information about Born to Read, Inc. can be found at http://borntoread.org/.

About 100 Women Who Care Beaufort:

The Beaufort Chapter of 100 Women Who Care (100 WWC) was founded in January 2015 by Jeneane Ryan. Each quarter, a group of women from all over Beaufort County, SC come together and collectively pool their money to make one large donation to a non-profit organization in our community. Learn more about 100 WWC at http://www.100wwcbeaufort.org/.

(Photo: Left to Right: Madeline Helser-Howard, Beaufort County Library & Born To Read Board Member, Dottie Morin, 100 WWC, and Janie Ephland, Executive Director, Julie Martin, Administrative Assistant, Born To Read).