Book by book, child by child, together, we empower.
At Make Way for Books, we are passionate about achieving social change so that thousands of children get access to the opportunities they deserve. Our model is to build the capacity, voice, and power of the adults who care for our community’s children. Empowerment is about breaking down barriers, building on strengths, and creating opportunities from those strengths.
Our theory of change is grounded in genuine empowerment.
We support parents and teachers so that they can create positive and nurturing learning environments built on shared reading, literacy and language experiences. We foster early intervention and family engagement, assure cultural relevance, leverage community resources, and build on the strengths of children, families, and educators we serve. We are honored to share our following 2016-17 annual report and stories of genuine empowerment, inspiration, and transformation that were only possible through your support.
Thank you for making this a year of innovation, inspiration, and impact for more than 30,000 young children, families, and educators throughout southern Arizona.
The first 5 years impact everything.
Right now, 39% of young children in our community live in poverty and this puts them at a distinct disadvantage. Children from low-income homes typically begin school up to two years behind in language and vocabulary skills and struggle to catch up.
Our mission is to give all children the chance to read and succeed.
Exciting research shows that children's earliest experiences with books, literacy, and language actually wire their brains for success in reading. In fact, when parents and caregivers read and talk with their young children, their children's brains are activated in the same areas they will use when they learn to read on their own. These early experiences matter. Children’s vocabulary skills at age three have been clearly shown to predict their reading achievement in third grade. And, a child’s vocabulary at kindergarten entry is a strong predictor of their 10th grade reading comprehension.
You are writing a new story for children in our community...
This year, you helped us reach thousands of children, families, and educators with proven early literacy programs and high-quality books.
With your support, young children experienced shared reading and meaningful interactions throughout the day in the classroom and at home. And this year, your support helped to provide more than 45,000 books to children's classrooms and homes. Your support helped Make Way for Books focus programming strategically through our innovative, systems-building Neighborhood School Readiness Project. The model provides comprehensive and coordinated early literacy programming for young children in settings surrounding elementary schools with low third-grade reading scores and high rates of poverty. Make Way for Books combines multiple strategies to meet the diverse needs of young children. All programming was provided free to children, families, and educators.
Our Innovative Approach: Neighborhood School Readiness
Thanks to you, we made a tremendous impact for parents, educators, and young children this year:
Ultimately, you ensured our youngest children develop critical skills
Ultimately, thanks to you, 97% of children developed emergent literacy and language skills that are the foundation for successful reading.
In fact, a recent evaluation found that children in Make Way for Books' programs make significant gains and score well above national norms in vocabulary.
A sample of children in our programming were followed to find the long-term impact of programming – 75% who participated in our programming during their preschool years scored at or above benchmarks on their school districts' reading assessments given in kindergarten, first, second, and third grades.
According to Dr. Melissa Barnett, Associate Professor at University of Arizona Family Studies and Human Development,
“Through Make Way for Books’ model, children gain experiences with literacy, language, and listening skills that carries over to their home activities. The parents are made to feel like partners, rather than students, in boosting their children’s literacy skills and love of reading. This culture that includes focusing on child and family strengths boosts parents’ confidence in their own skills, their awareness of their children’s skills, and their knowledge about how to support their children’s learning and development. This early, two generation skill building provides critical foundations for later school success. Make Way for Books programs make lifelong teachers of parents and lifelong learners of children.”
Thanks to you, our year was filled with stories of impact and inspiration. Here's what it looked like:
This is how YOU made an impact this year:
Partnering with Parents through Family Education and Literacy
Genuine empowerment happens when one is able to see their positive impact on their own life, relationships, and community. We find that parents, motivated by their children, are a tremendous catalyst for creating a brighter future for their whole family. Through our Family Education and Literacy strategy, we provide two-generation programs that harness the power of parents as agents of change in their children's lives.
Your support provided weekly programming where children and parents learn together.
Studies show that parents' engagement in their children's literacy is connected to improved vocabulary, comprehension, decoding skills, and more advanced reading ability. Because of your generosity, our Family Literacy Specialists meet families with high-quality programming and books each week. Our approach strengthens meaningful back-and-forth interactions and shared reading to foster young children's emergent literacy, language, and vocabulary development. Children are immersed in shared reading and literacy activities that build critical emergent literacy and language skills. Week after week, parents and caregivers learn that by sharing books and fostering meaningful, serve-and-return interactions with their children, they are helping their child reach their full potential and preparing them for success in reading and beyond.
Through our Family Education and Literacy Strategies (like Cover to Cover and Raising A Reader) parents gain skills, confidence, and tools as their child's first, most essential teacher. Family Literacy Specialists use a strengths-based approach to teach parents how talking, singing, reading, and playing with their child will set the foundation for success. We recognize and promote the skills and knowledge parents already have and what they are doing well as a foundation to help their children thrive in school and in life.
To see your impact on my kids—it made me want to try harder. You inspired me to improve myself to be a better mom to my girls. Now we read together every day. We weren’t doing that before. I feel that I’m confident now. My six-year-old is in kindergarten now and she is always trying to read.
You can hear some of the stories you helped to write for families this year:
You helped us create Schools Without Walls through Cover to Cover
Recognizing the great number of families who are not connected to early education, we created programming that meets families where they are. With your support, we provided our innovative Cover to Cover program to thousands of children in places like the Tanque Verde Swap Meet, social services offices, and more.
Family Literacy Specialists foster a collaborative peer-learning environment in which parents are connected with other families. These shared experiences build confidence, courage, and community among families. Some families come to our programming without any connection to our community and are welcomed into a safe, positive, and culturally-responsive space where they are respected and valued.
"We moved here with no family. We don't speak very good English and being in such a different place has been hard. Without friends or family, we have felt very alone at times. Make Way for Books became our community. When we come here, when we receive books, when we see smiling faces we feel connected. Now my daughter is in school. When they read books or sing songs at school, she gets so excited when she knows the stories and the words because she learned them at Make Way for Books."
You will definitely want to see some dancing dinosaurs in action at Cover to Cover:
Project 110: An Innovative Approach
Your support empowers us to build on the latest research to refine our effective programs and create new strategies. One of those innovations is Project 110 which is our new strategy focused on the birth to 3 years. Project 110 is an intensive program that ensures infants and toddlers in our community are surrounded by literacy and language-rich environments and interactions that foster their emergent literacy, language, and brain development.
This helped us both. I struggled with reading when I was a kid but now we're reading more at home. Adrian is evolving and thriving. This has been a gift to my whole family.
Click the video below where you can check out babies and toddlers in action at Project 110:
You helped us Make Way for Kindergarten
With your support, we provided Make Way for Kindergarten to ensure children developed skills teachers want them to have on the first day of school. During the summer before school, families joined for weekly sessions where they gained skills ranging from daily routines to how to communicate with new school staff. Through the program, children were introduced to the school campus in a safe, positive environment. This introduction was especially valuable to the many families who did not have a connection to the K-12 system and children who did not attend preschool:
I recommend this program to all families. It brought our family together—now we are all reading together. It really helps kids before they go to kindergarten—they learn how to sit down, to raise their hands, to be engaged with books. My son never went to preschool but he already got those concepts before he started kindergarten because of this program. He was ready for kindergarten. Now he is excited about school and he is always wanting to read!
98% of parents who participated in Make Way for Kindergarten reported that they felt very comfortable in supporting their children’s literacy development as a result of the program.
And you helped us to make an impact for more than 6,000 young children in under-resourced preschools and childcare centers. Check it out:
You transformed under-resourced preschools and childcare centers through The Story Project.
Last year, The Story Project impacted 6,000 young children at under-resourced preschools and childcare centers. The comprehensive program ensures young children have access to literacy and language-rich environments in the preschool classroom and at home. With your support, we provide high-quality books for children's classrooms and homes. Access to books is essential to fostering the emergent literacy skills children need to become successful readers. Make Way for Books provides high-quality, multilingual books for young children's classrooms as well as homes to ensure they have access to literacy-rich environments throughout the day. This is essential support for families.
96% of participating sites were assessed to be more language and literacy rich as a result of participating in The Story Project.
The majority of my students live in poverty and have no books at home because they don't have the money to purchase books. Because of Make Way for Books, we are able to provide a healthy start for our children.
Your empowered more than 1,000 educators
Through The Story Project, we provide ongoing, one-on-one coaching and content-based workshops for educators and childcare professionals. During workshops, educators learn to discover the world together with their children and to facilitate the exploration of the world using books to spark children's curiosity and answer their burning questions. Through support from Make Way for Books, an educator shared she learned ways to “promote daily interactions which promote and stimulate the search for knowledge and answer children’s questions that help the development of critical thinking.”
At Make Way for Books we feel respected and heard. We feel safe to share in a space where we can build upon each other's strengths and help our peers. [The Make Way for Books] program, strategies, and books provided have made the most impact on my practice and the way I interact with children.
Our impact is rooted in trusting relationships built on respect and a shared commitment to a brighter future for our youngest children. The Story Project empowers the professionals who care for young children with the skills and tools to support the early literacy, language, cognitive, and social-emotional development of children in their care. We are committed to overcoming barriers to ensure that educators can gain experiences and resources that boost their knowledge and confidence and ultimately create a real impact for children in their care.
Through your support, 99% of educators gained strategies, skills, and tools to better support the emergent literacy and language development of young children in their care through more meaningful interactions and shared reading.
Check out the impact of The Story Project in the words of one participating home-based care provider:
From our weekly storytime, to handing out thousands of books at the Downtown Holiday Light Parade, to our special Girl Power Story Hour event, this year was really one for the books!
We could not have done all this without YOU!
Thanks to your support, all of our programs are provided at zero cost to all children, families, and educators.
In addition, Make Way for Books' volunteers contributed many hours of support in our programs, at events, and in our office. Altogether, volunteers contributed $106,530 in in-kind services in 2016-17!
We are committed to excellence and continuous improvement.
Make Way for Books is committed to executing with excellence in all we do. We are honored to be recognized for how our high-quality standard translates into impact in the community. Through the Quality Assurance process of our two main programmatic strategies, First Things First awarded exemplary citations for the extent to which our staff reflect the cultures and languages of families we serve, our cultural competency and ability to break down barriers, and our culture of empowerment that fosters families' shared commitment to the education of their children. Make Way for Books also earned exemplary citations for continuous self-monitoring and reflection to improve program outcomes. In 2017, we were among ten nonprofits selected for the Cradle to Career What Works Symposium, recognizing continuous improvement and real data to drive impact for children.
All of this impact, innovation, and inspiration was possible because of YOU! Thanks for your gifts this year!
Thanks to foundations, businesses, agencies, and community supporters who generously fund Make Way for Books:
The following supporters gave to Make Way for Books between July 2016 through June 2017.
50 Plus Club Seas
Align Publishing LLC
Amazon Smile Foundation
Arizona Cardinals Charities
Arizona Community Foundation
Arizona Coyotes Foundation
Arizona Lottery
Art 4 Moore Fund of Tides Foundation
Buffalo Exchange
Catalina Rotary Foundation
Charity Gift Certificates
Comcast
Cox Communications Arizona Fund Held At The Community Foundation For Southern Arizona
Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation
Eliot Spalding Foundation
Executive Council Charities SAY, LLC
Executive Women International
First Things First
Flowing Wells Unified School District
Governor's Office of Youth, Faith and Family
Helios Education Foundation
IBM
Kroger/Fry's Rewards
La Cocina Restaurant
Larry H Miller Charities
Libraries Limited Inc.
Long Realty Cares Foundation
LPL Financial Foundation
Mildred and Dildred
Mt. Lemmon Woman's Club
Ohio Children's Foundation
Peace Vanguard
PICOR Charitable Foundation
Pima County Attorney's Office
Pima County Outside Agency
Pima County Public Library
Potbelly Sandwich Shop
Raising A Reader
Riehm Family Foundation
Rincon Research Corporation
Rotary Club of Tucson
Roth Family Foundation
Session Yoga
Southwest Gas
Sparkle Cleaners
St. Mark's United Methodist Church
Stone Canyon Community Foundation
Sundt Foundation
The Home Depot Foundation
The HSLopez Family Foundation
The Lewis Hertz Foundation
The Melting Pot
The National Society of The Daughters of The American Revolution - El Presidio Chapter
The Steele Foundation
The Stocker Foundation
The Temp Connection
The Wreckettes
Thunder Mountain Women of The Moose 2155
Tohono O'odham Nation
TRICO Electric Cooperative
Tucson Electric Power
Tucson Federal Credit Union
Tucson Realtors Charitable Foundation
Tucson Sunrise Rotary Foundation
United Way Board Allocation
United Way Diamond Fund
United Way/First Things First
United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona
Western Alliance Community Foundation
Thanks to our Splendid Friend Giving Circle who provide monthly support:
The following supporters gave to Make Way for Books between July 2016 through June 2017.
Liz Harrison and Rick Edwards
Martha Hart
Sarajean Harwood
David Van Houten
R.A. and Rebecca Montano
Ray and Kathy Naylor
Rita and Billy Olsen
Emily Phy
Bonnie and Larry Rogge
Thanks to our incredible individual supporters:
The following supporters gave to Make Way for Books between July 2016 through June 2017.
Stephanie Aaron
L Luise Abbey
Carole Adler
Carmen Alvarez
Patricia Andrade and Hank Walker
Ellinor Angel
Anonymous
Kayla Archer
David Arme
Lisa Arrotta
Austin and Amy Baum
Nelida Avila
Veronica Avila
Angela Babineau
Rhoda Babis
Ally Baehr
Carolyn Bancroft
Claire Bancroft
Corinne Bancroft
Elizabeth Bancroft
John and Georgia Bancroft
Paul and Mary Jan Bancroft
Kent Barrabee
Debbie Bartolazzi
Joanne Basta
Gerry and Charlene Bates
Amy Beal
Victor and Meg Beer
Susan Beesemyer
Kathy Bell
Sue Bernas
William and Lynn Bevill
John and Maureen Bike
Bryan Bird
LeeAnn Blankenship
Bobi Borenstein
Jill Bottomley
Kimber Bowers
Michael and Betsy Boxer
Kristi Bradford
Nancy Brass
Alice Breaux
Jennifer Breslin
Margaret Briehl and Dennis Ray
Susan Bring
Joyce Brodsky
Steve Brong and Mark Clark
Albert Brown
Arch and Laura Brown
Kelsey Brown
Teresa Brown and Ashley Bruch
Daniela Buchberger
William and Melody Buckner
Lisa Bunker
Kristina Burdine
David and Renee Burnett
Bill and Karen Call
Jennifer Camano
Robert and Joan Campel
Susie Carmona
Tracy Carroll
Donald Carson
Timothy Case
Lauren Caspanello Hoffman
Bernadette Cassidy
Erin Chadd
Gabriel Chambers
Susan Chambers
Nic Clement
Sally Clement
Richard and Renee Clift
Jeff and Myndi Clive
Eloise Clymer
Amy Collinsworth
John Contreras
Michael Contreras
Robert Cooper
Hipolito Corella
Len and Doris Coris
Duke and Janet Corley
Bambi Corso
Brittany Cortinas
Jenna Cowan
Ken and Barbara Cowan
Talia Cowan
Diane Bradford-Cox
Thomas and Joanne Crawford
Janice Crist
Bonnie Cunningham
Daniel and Anna Montesano
Abbott and Jean Davis
Deborah Davis
Forrest Davis
Lynn Davis
Mike Davis
Anne Denny
Matthew Derstine
Joann Dixon
Mary Ann and Darryl Dobras
Colleen Dolan
John Dolan
Donor Advised Fund at the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona
LaVonne Douville and Chet Hedden
Tara Doyle
Arthur and Eleanor Droegemeier
John and Anne Duffy
JC Duguay
Judith Dyl
Rick Edwards and Liz Harrison
Ernesto Encinas
Alma Enciso
Melinda Englert
Randy and Alan Engstrom
Robert and Alyson Engstrom
Shelagh Engstrom
Pamela Ensign
Roman and Tanya Eskue
Warren and Rose Essig
Sophie Etchart
Thomas Farmer and Marjorie Farmer
Roberta Fausey
Betty Feinberg
Katharine Ferguson
Joe Fico
Erin Fila
Mike Fitzgibbon
Thomas Flores
Sharon Ford
Martin and Maureen Fox
Willy Frankenburg
Nat and Gail Franklin
Marilyn Freeouf
Lee Ellen and Lindsey Fulmer
Jean Gage
Shawn Gallagher
Scott and Jami Gan
Estela Garcia
Sara Garcia
Sandra Gebbia
David and F LaVonne Geesey
Gail Gibbons
Donie Gignac
Gudrun Godare
Arthur and Ann Goldberg
Leo and Paula Golembiewski
Norma Gonzalez
Rossana Gonzalez
Bob and Marie Graninger
David and Barbara Gray
Kristen Green and John Brady
Marie Green
Hannah Greene
Raúl and Ramona Grijalva
Deborah Haeseler
Rachael Hall
Michael Hamant and Lynnell Gardner
Gina Harms
Harry and Marjorie Stewart Foundation
Martha Hart
Susan Hart
Peg Hartman
Sarajean Harwood
Juanita Havill
Lisa Healey
Richard Healy
Gary and Diana Henderson
Carolyn Hill
Jessica Hill
Natalia Hoffman
Rocky Hoopengardner and Cathy Smith
Karen Houghton
Cheryl Houser
Ellen Howlett
Linda Huber
John Huerta
Susan Lowell Humphreys
Suzy Hunt
Dave and Laurie Ingram
Heather Ingram
Kenneth and Mary Lou Iserson
Anne Jablo
Jennifer Jaime
Loretto Jaimez
Edgar Jenkins
Jennifer Jenkins
Jo Anne Jenkins
Jennifer J. Phillips CPA PLLC
Donald Jennings
Clark Johnson
Glenda Johnson
Heather Johnson
Beth Jones
Blaine Jordan
Camy Juarez
Alyshah Kanji
Barbara Kelly
Laura Kerr
Cathy Kerry
Prateek Khokhar and Harpreet Girn
Kathy Kinney
Rick and Jan Kleiner
Marcia Klipsch
Ruth Kneale
Jackie and Dean Knobloch
Betty & Mike Knott
Donald Kolakowski
John and Donna Kolberg
Barbara Kremer
Vanessa Kroh
Henry Kupper
Bonnie and Greg Kuykendall
Mason Lai
Matt Landon and Julie Friberg
Martin and Ann Lapidus
Kelly and Tim Larkin
Jeanine Lewis
Craig Liesegang
Mary Lindley
Debbie Lingrey
Lawrence Lippert
Charlene Littrell
Scott Love
David Lovitt
Doris Lowenfels
James Lubinski
Ruby Ludwig
Phil and Carol Lyons
Gina Macaluso
Suzanne Macdonald
Duncan MacDonell
Ned and Pat Mackey
Daryl Maitland
Jon and Nancy Maldonado
Jody Mallie
Aneesh Manohar and Elizabeth Jenkins
Daisy Manzo
Frank and Janet Marcus
Mark Mason
Linda and John Masterson
Patrick Mathews
Lorraine Mazzuca
Ross and Patty McCallister
Kori McClain-Lee
Cheryl McCurry
Janice McGinnis
Dennis McLaughlin
Roxanne McMurray
Jennie Merkle
Emily Meschter
Suzy Messing
Joshua Meyer
Russ and Barbara Miller
Kerry Milligan and Craig LeCroy
Sasha Minton
Pitu Mirchandani
Zarin and Bruce Mitchell
Kathy Mitton
Linda Molina
Joseph Monaco
Nicholas Monaco
Janice Monk
R.A. and Rebecca Montano
Judi Moreillon and Nick Vitale
Peter and Anne Morgan
Gail Mowen
Diana Mulligan
Raymond and Kathy Naylor
Scott Neeley and Stephen Russell
Barbara Nelson
Frank and Eleanor Nelson
Colleen Niccum
Thomas Nieman
Krista Nikes
Katrina Noble
Noel Hennessey and Dan Latt
Dharna Obermaier
Sharon O'Brien
Jonathan Ocampo
Marisia Ocampo
Rita and Billy Olsen
Karen Ortiz
Gary Oschmann
Diane Paine
Penny Palmer
Wendy Palmer
Jennifer Paquette
Barnes Parker
Terry Parker
Dave and Mary Parnell
David and Aline Pashkow
Lori Patton
Dave Peashock
Janelle and John Perry
Karen Perry
Matt Peters
Todd Petitt
Zoey Petitt
James and Violeta Phillips
Jennifer Phillips
Drew Sanders and Emily Phy
Gabriela Pierson
Bruce and Sherri Porterfield
Karyn Prechtel
Jerry and Colette Price
Susie Priem
Charline Profiri
Scott and Carrie Radomsky
Conor Real
Mary Anne Mayer Redmond
Sue Reed and Victor Stevens
Gale Reich
Adam Rex
Iliana Reyes
Sarah Richelson
Andy and Cheryl Ridgley
Rene Rinaldi
Donna Rishor
Roni Rivera-Ashford
Mary Roberts
Gracie Rodriguez
Larry and Bonnie Rogge
Elizabeth Rollings
Star Romero
Shane Rood
Dennis Rosen
Herschel and Jill Rosenzweig
John and Carol Ross
Richard Rowley
Gerald and Carol Rucks
Aurora Ruhe
Autumn Ruhe
Bernadette Ruiz
Kay Rukasin
Debra Russo
Linda and James Ryan
Jim and Dee Ann Sakrison
Stuart Salasche
Anna Sanchez
Lila Sanchez
Mary and Andrew Sanchez
Paul and Becky Sandall
Joan Sandin
Jay and Andi Sanes
Christine and Ed Schaefer
Helen Schaefer
Carol Schlim-Thomason
Jill Schneider
Derek and Marsha Schull
Ric and Debbie Scripps
Ryan and Nancy Scripps
Amanda Shauger
Jeffrey Shope
Michael Sihler
Maribeth Slagle
Abby Smith
Sue Smith
Wendy Smith
Cindy & David Soffrin
Mike and Florence Solan
Crystal and George Soltero
Sharon Soltero
Terry Sonnleitner
Elizabeth Soto
Miguel Soto
Andrew Sparrow
Ethel and Susan Staley
Sesaly Stamps
Sophia Staniec
Judy Stewart
Bruce and Jennifer J. Stewart
Miranda Stewart
Genie Stoker
Margaret Stoll
Patricia Stowers
Georgette Stromenger
Betsy Stunz
Jim and Laura Sullivan
Byron Taylor and Tara King-Taylor
Marion and B Brooks Taylor
Barbara Tellman
Jen Tellman
Corey Teslow
Rebecca Theobald
Darcy Thomas
Hugh and Allyn Thompson
Sue Thorne
Nancy Thorngate
Lynne Tomasa
Sandy Totaro
Allan and Diane Tractenberg
Yvonne Trejo
Trina Trimble
David Van Houten
Marie Verbout
Pamela Villa
Bill and Brenda Viner
Jenny Volpe
Josephine Volpe
Sandra Volpe
Candace Wagner
Joe and Judi Wagner
Amy Wakefield
Gary Wakefield
Greg and Kim Wakefield
Adrienne Walker-Heller
Karna Walter
Nicholas Webb
Tobias Wehner
Marina Welmers
Karly and Taylor White
Serani Wijesinghe
Lynn Willis
Thatcher Wine
Sheila Wolf
Beverly Wood
Mark and Helene Woodhams
Carole Wymer Jensen
Matthew Yarosz
Carlos Yengle and Naomi Terr
Larry and Jean Young
James and Martha Young
Christopher Yrigolla
Sue Zimmerman
Marty and Arlene Zuckerman
Thanks to our generous in-kind donors:
The following supporters gave to Make Way for Books between July 2016 through June 2017.
Individual in-kind Donors:
Leslie Alber
Nicole Allen
Len and Diane Altieri
John Andrews
Ellinor Angel
Anonymous
Ally Baehr
Susan Baker
Kayla Barnes
Daniel Barnham
Kathy Bell
Nicki Bertenshaw
Morella Bierway
Jerry Booth
Craig Boudy
Peter Bourret
Larry Dane Brimner
Susan Bring
Jeffrey and Olga Bruno
Kristina Burdine
Melissa Carroll
Janice Carter
Tom Chisholm
Oriana Chou
Jim and Karen Chrisman
Camille Chrzanowski
Shelly and Clara Coleman
Amy Collinsworth
Carol Costa
Lindy Cote
Bonnie Cunningham
Martha Duchon
Judith Dyl
Barbara Elliott
Cynthia Elliott
Cheryl Fischer
Lynn Fuller and Bob Gaare
Debbie Gayheart
Gudrun Godare
Cindy Godwin
Brenda Gooding
Bob and Marie Graninger
Ken Graun
Kathleen and Jeff Harrison
Amy Haskell
Darryl Hawkins
Suzannah Herron
Sean Hoffman
Ellen Howlett
Adam Jacobs
Jessica Jarrett
Ruth and Isaac Johnson
Ellen Kirton
Lucia Konrath
Ken Krieg
Martha Lawrence
Holly Ledcke
Angelita Lopez
David Lovitt
Rene Malmgren
Marigale Maly
Amanda Manning
Susan Marshall
Jane Martin
Terry McLellan
Don McNamara
Ana Miller
Jason Miller and Ana Rios
Raymond and Kathy Naylor
Rita and Billy Olsen
Penelope Perkins
Agnes Poore
Nikki Potter
Kathy Reilly
Greg Rogan
Sally Schroer
Derek and Marsha Schull
Olivia Sethi
Alicia Shank
Beth Shelby
Charlene Sigala
Katy Smith
Adam and Teresa Sommers
Brian and Nicole Sonnleitner
Krista Struthers
Jean Thomas
Glenda Thompson and Michelle Janes
Hugh and Allyn Thompson
Patricia Todd
Sonia Trejo
David Van Houten
Candace Wagner
Greg and Kim Wakefield
Dorothy Whitaker
Lori Witkowski
Alexandra Yarborough
Karen Zakerwski
Rita Zohav
Community in-kind Donors:
Agua Caliente Elementary School
AMC Foothills 15
Bashas' Family of Stores
Bella Novellas Book Group
Ben’s Bells
Beyond Bread, Inc.
Book Clubs
Bookmans Entertainment Exchange
Costco
Cover To Cover Book Club
Desert Sage Book Club
Drexel Heights School
Gecko Gals Ink
GitHub
Green Fields Country Day School
Hexagon Mining
Intuit
Junior League of Tucson, Inc.
Kid's Center
Lauffer Middle School AVID Club
Lowes #1754
Mildred and Dildred
Mt. Lemmon Woman's Club
Our Mother of Sorrows School
Peace Vanguard
Peter Howell Elementary School
Presidio High School National Honor Society
Professional Computer Solutions
Pyramid Federal Credit Union
Rancho Rossa Vineyards
Raytheon Missile Systems
Rotary Club of Tucson
Saddlebrook Book Club
Santa Cruz Catholic School
Scott Neeley Architecture
Southwest Human Development
St Cyril School
State Of Arizona/SECC/UWTSA
Tanque Verde Elementary School
The Home Depot Foundation
The Sandbox Early Childhood Learning Center
Tucson Community School
Tucson Electric Power
University of Arizona Bookstore
Vantage West Credit Union
Thank you to our incredible volunteers for their gifts of joy and time:
The following individuals and groups volunteered with Make Way for Books between July 2016 through June 2017.
Abbrianna Adams
Adam Jacobs
Alice Pringle
Alicia Elliott
Allan Koritzinsky
Allan Tractenberg
Allie Mitchell
Ally Baehr
Amanda McLaughlin
Angela Marcos
Anne Wood
April Zhang
Arizona College Prep
Ashley Rose Ochoa
Ashton LaTour
Athena Gutierrez
Autumn Ruhe
Barbara Arissa
Barbara Stone
Beth McClellan
Beth Shelby
Bill Borland
Brenda Harried
Brett Shelby
Bria Marshall
Brian Peterson
Brian Sonnleitner
Bridget Magee
Brittany McArdle
Caira McLaughlin
Cassie Miller
Catalina Rotary
Charlanne Maynard
Charlene Sigala
Chris Aguilar
Citi Volunteers
Colette Price
Connor Holder
Craig Liesegang
Crystal Soltero
Cyan Cornett
Cynthia Jo
Damian Amado
Daniel Santiago
Daniela Pineda
Daniella Elliott
Darcie Litwicki
Darrien Borregard
David Van Houten
Days of Caring Volunteers
Debbie Lingrey
Debra Winstead
Derek Schull
Diana Abeyta
Donie Gignac
Edge Highschool
Edward Queen
Elizabeth Jo
Ellinor Angel
Emily Dawleyhill
Enrique Aviles
Eric Collignon
Eric Romero-Wagner
Erika Vargas
Erin Chadd
Frances Romero
Francisca Montano
Gabbei Diaz
Gabe Bayer
Gail Dent
Genie Stoker
Greg Curtis
Hank Delgado
Hannah Gates
Hannah Nishimura
Heidi Foy
Helen Robinson
Hunter Malone
Intermountain School
Ironwood Ridge High School Key Club
Jack Martin (aka John Martin)
Jane Herz
Janet Jones
Jayden Fernandez
Jeanine Rasummen
Jen Jaime
Jennifer J. Stewart
Jessica Hill
JJ Rosenberry
Joan Murray
John Dolan
John Ross
Junior League
Kathy & Ray Naylor
Kathy Bell
Kathy Do
Kathy Koritzinsky
Kathy Mitton
Kathy Reilly
Kelli Herreras
Kevin Lacke
Kevin Marshall and daughters
Kimberly Hoidal
Kit Parcell
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