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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChelsea 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.
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Laundry Literacy Coalition
Promoting Early Literacy through Laundromats Nationwide
Three national non-profit groups, the LaundryCares Foundation, the Clinton Foundations 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 Foundations 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 childrens 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
Me.
(35,454 posts)Congrats to Chelsea and the three non profits involved in this
WeekiWater
(3,259 posts)It was enough to keep me reading about it. Brilliant.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Maybe we could teach Trump to read.
mopinko
(69,809 posts)nothing like a win-win-win-win-win.
maybe dolly parton would like to get on board.
Hekate
(90,202 posts)Great women with great ideas.
mopinko
(69,809 posts)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)Link: https://imaginationlibrary.com/
(snips)
Inspired by her fathers 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 Partons Imagination Library, to benefit the children of her home county in East Tennessee, USA. Dollys vision was to foster a love of reading among her countys 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)DownriverDem
(6,206 posts)Why would they?
comradebillyboy
(10,119 posts)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.
Ninsianna
(1,349 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,888 posts)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)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.
elleng
(130,156 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)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)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.
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)it's these kinds of local initiatives that can really make a difference.
Karadeniz
(22,283 posts)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)EveHammond13
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for toddler conservatives
WeekiWater
(3,259 posts)c-rational
(2,581 posts)Initech
(99,915 posts)Yeah teaching children to learn how to read, that's some shady next level shit!