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WeekiWater

(3,259 posts)
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 11:14 AM Mar 2019

Chelsea Clinton visits Chicago laundromat to unveil reading space

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chelsea Clinton visited a Northwest Side laundromat Wednesday morning to unveil a learning space that aims to encourage early childhood development.

"This is one of the first, but we hope to be in hundreds if not thousands of laundromats over the next few years," said Clinton, who also read a book to children.

The Family Read & Play Space will be a permanent fixture at the Wash Time laundromat as part of a partnership between the Clinton Foundation and the Laundry Literacy Coalition.

The foundation's Too Small to Fail program is working with the Chicago Public Library to maintain weekly story time programming at the laundromat. They currently visit twice a week.


ABC

Laundry Literacy Coalition

Promoting Early Literacy through Laundromats Nationwide

Three national non-profit groups, the LaundryCares Foundation, the Clinton Foundation’s Too Small to Fail initiative, and Libraries Without Borders have launched a new Laundry Literacy Coalition. This new alliance was formed as a collaborative effort to make early literacy resources available to underserved communities through local laundromats in communities nationwide. Three national non-profit groups, the LaundryCares Foundation, the Clinton Foundation’s Too Small to Fail initiative, and Libraries Without Borders have launched a new Laundry Literacy Coalition. This new alliance was formed as a collaborative effort to make early literacy resources available to underserved communities through local laundromats in communities nationwide.

Since 2015, the LaundryCares Foundation, Too Small to Fail, and Libraries without Borders have been focused on the role of laundromats in promoting children’s early literacy development. Initiatives have included:

Free Laundry & Literacy Day events at local laundromats throughout the United States hosted by the LaundryCares Foundation and Too Small to Fail;

“Wash Time Is Talk Time,” an assortment of early literacy tools and resources distributed to over 5,000 laundromats through a partnership between the LaundryCares Foundation and Too Small to Fail, and;

“Wash and Learn,” an initiative to extend library services to laundromats through a collaboration between LaundryCares Foundation and Libraries Without Borders.


LaundryCares.org

The Clinton Foundation

Building on a lifetime of public service, President Clinton established the Clinton Foundation on the simple belief that everyone deserves a chance to succeed, everyone has a responsibility to act, and we all do better when we work together. For nearly two decades, those values have energized the work of the Foundation in overcoming complex challenges and improving the lives of people across the United States and around the world.

As an operating foundation, we work on issues directly or with strategic partners from the business, government, and nonprofit sectors to create economic opportunity, improve public health, and inspire civic engagement and service. Our programs are designed to make a real difference today while serving as proven models for tomorrow. The goal of every effort is to use available resources to get better results faster – at the lowest possible cost.

We firmly believe that when diverse groups of people bring resources together in the spirit of true cooperation, transformative ideas will emerge to drive life-changing action.


Clinton Foundation


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Chelsea Clinton visits Chicago laundromat to unveil reading space (Original Post) WeekiWater Mar 2019 OP
What A Wonderful & Innovative Thing To Do Me. Mar 2019 #1
I kind of chuckled watching the video of Chelsea with the laundry going behind her. WeekiWater Mar 2019 #2
We should put these in money laundries. lagomorph777 Mar 2019 #23
women are just so practical sometimes. mopinko Mar 2019 #3
I know, Dolly's been doing splendidly for years Hekate Mar 2019 #12
great ideas about the future. mopinko Mar 2019 #19
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library KY_EnviroGuy Mar 2019 #22
I'm a bit surprised Our Revolution wasn't picketing the event. comradebillyboy Mar 2019 #4
??? DownriverDem Mar 2019 #7
They were still organizing anti-Hillary demonstrations after the election comradebillyboy Mar 2019 #8
Apparently attacking any Clinton for existing is part of their mission. Ninsianna Mar 2019 #18
The is a great idea, she is doing good work. nt yaesu Mar 2019 #5
Don't you see what's going on here? MyOwnPeace Mar 2019 #6
What a great idea! NastyRiffraff Mar 2019 #9
A great idea! elleng Mar 2019 #10
Great idea and I hope they consider expanding to other venues.... KY_EnviroGuy Mar 2019 #11
What's wonderful about laundromats is that everyone of a certain class goes there... Hekate Mar 2019 #14
Every little bit helps... Wounded Bear Mar 2019 #13
Super idea! When my washer has gone out and I've gone to the laundromat, it's been Karadeniz Mar 2019 #15
I LOVE THIS. EveHammond13 Mar 2019 #16
Breaking: TPUSA and Charlie Kirk launch the "How to Launder Money Foundation" EveHammond13 Mar 2019 #17
. WeekiWater Mar 2019 #21
Great idea,. It is practical, useful, and i bet effective. Go Chelsea! c-rational Mar 2019 #20
Watch some conspiracy theory dumbass will try to put a negative spin on this. Initech Mar 2019 #24

Me.

(35,454 posts)
1. What A Wonderful & Innovative Thing To Do
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 11:27 AM
Mar 2019

Congrats to Chelsea and the three non profits involved in this

 

WeekiWater

(3,259 posts)
2. I kind of chuckled watching the video of Chelsea with the laundry going behind her.
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 11:33 AM
Mar 2019

It was enough to keep me reading about it. Brilliant.

mopinko

(69,809 posts)
3. women are just so practical sometimes.
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 11:39 AM
Mar 2019

nothing like a win-win-win-win-win.

maybe dolly parton would like to get on board.

mopinko

(69,809 posts)
19. great ideas about the future.
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 02:22 PM
Mar 2019

i dont think in absolutes about the differences between men and women, but i truly believe that we evolved very differently, for obvious reasons.
i think women look to the future, and men live in the now.
it's why we desperately need balance in our representation.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,483 posts)
22. Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 03:38 PM
Mar 2019
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library

Link: https://imaginationlibrary.com/

(snips)
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth to age five in participating communities within the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Republic of Ireland.

Inspired by her father’s inability to read and write Dolly started her Imagination Library in 1995 for the children within her home county. Today, her program spans four countries and mails over 1 million free books each month to children around the world.

“When I was growing up in the hills of East Tennessee, I knew my dreams would come true. I know there are children in your community with their own dreams. They dream of becoming a doctor or an inventor or a minister. Who knows, maybe there is a little girl whose dream is to be a writer and singer.

The seeds of these dreams are often found in books and the seeds you help plant in your community can grow across the world.”

In 1995, Dolly Parton launched an exciting new effort, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, to benefit the children of her home county in East Tennessee, USA. Dolly’s vision was to foster a love of reading among her county’s preschool children and their families by providing them with the gift of a specially selected book each month.

A great cause. Nothing better than little stepping stones that help less-privileged children progress in life.....

comradebillyboy

(10,119 posts)
8. They were still organizing anti-Hillary demonstrations after the election
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 12:59 PM
Mar 2019

and seemed to be sympathetic to the attack on Chelsea at the NYU memorial for the New Zealand victims based on the Twitter feeds I was seeing.

MyOwnPeace

(16,888 posts)
6. Don't you see what's going on here?
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 12:52 PM
Mar 2019

She wants BOOKS in there.
Somebody has to BUY books for in there.
Someone interested in SELLING books would like that.
Who wrote a book?
Hint: "It Takes a Village"
Yes - CROOKED HILLARY!!!!

Republicans - you cannot let this happen!!!!

I'm sure you'll be hearing more soon from your exulted leader real soon (you know, the author of "The Art of the Deal" )!!!!




(do I really need to add this?)

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
9. What a great idea!
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 01:14 PM
Mar 2019

I haven't been to a public laundromat in years, but I remember that there were (usually) mothers with their very bored, restless children there. Having books for them to read is brilliant. Good for everyone: moms and kids.

I'm so glad Chelsea has gotten behind this.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,483 posts)
11. Great idea and I hope they consider expanding to other venues....
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 01:36 PM
Mar 2019

We need community centers across America that do this sort of thing.....

and to help return us as adults to better national unity...........

Hekate

(90,202 posts)
14. What's wonderful about laundromats is that everyone of a certain class goes there...
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 02:00 PM
Mar 2019

That class being people who are too poor and/or crowded to have a personal washing machine. Socially, it is a ready-made space that can be utilized. Women and children are already there.

Community centers are great, and they already exist. But you have to carve out time to drag the kids there, and then wonder what else you are not getting done (like the family laundry ) while the kids are having story time.

Like the movement some years back to use beauty parlors frequented by black women to hand out information on breast self exams, this looks to be a brilliant use of already-existing social space.

Karadeniz

(22,283 posts)
15. Super idea! When my washer has gone out and I've gone to the laundromat, it's been
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 02:03 PM
Mar 2019

a nightmare a few times due to bored kids. I think they'd have gotten bored even if their mother had thought to bring a book. A good reader can keep the kids engrossed...the kids can contribute...this is great!

 

EveHammond13

(2,855 posts)
17. Breaking: TPUSA and Charlie Kirk launch the "How to Launder Money Foundation"
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 02:16 PM
Mar 2019

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for toddler conservatives

Initech

(99,915 posts)
24. Watch some conspiracy theory dumbass will try to put a negative spin on this.
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 03:46 PM
Mar 2019

Yeah teaching children to learn how to read, that's some shady next level shit!

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