Lehigh Valley Reads Works With StoryCorps and Together for Students to Capture Stories of Lehigh Valley Families During the Covid-19 Crisis. Systemic racial inequities exposed by COVID-19 heighten the need for systems transformation.
Lehigh Valley Reads and United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley celebrate Read Across America Day by distributing books and educational supplies to 4 elementary schools across the region and ramp up the Million Minute Challenge.
Raub Middle School, a Community School in the Allentown School District, receives gift cards totaling $37,000 through a partnership with Faith Church.
Funding will support the Allentown Freedom Schools Partnership, Resilient Lehigh Valley and Promise Neighborhoods of the Lehigh Valley to address emerging needs including racial justice, summer learning and trauma.