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The power of reading: Kindergarten classrooms receive books from Imagination Library
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Thursday, April 13, 2017 Nearly 50 kindergarten students gathered in the library at Elmhurst Elementary School on Wednesday morning for story time with Angela Sawyer. Sawyer, an early literacy coordinator with the literacy program Raising a…
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Pediatric offices deliver healthy dose of books
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Friday, May 12, 2017 Efforts by two children’s health care practices to promote early childhood literacy got shots in the arm this month when a program spearheaded by United Way of Pitt County delivered several boxes of books to each. Books from…
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Small Park Gets Big Gift
Monday, April 3, 2017
The people gathered at Peppermint Park, the little neighborhood park at Brownlea Drive and 14th Street in Greenville, demonstrated Tuesday that big things — like teachable moments — can come in small packages. Representatives of the United Way of…
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Grady-White First Business to Adopt Imagination Library for Employees
Monday, March 6, 2017
Michael AbramowitzThe Daily Reflector Sunday, March 5, 2017 Grady-White Boats last month became Pitt County’s first industry to adopt an employer-based partnership with the Books From Birth Early Literacy Coalition, but the United Way of Pitt…
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River of reading quenching a thirsty desert
Monday, March 6, 2017
  Books from birth River of reading quenching a thirsty desertMichael AbramowitzThe Daily Reflector Sunday, March 5, 2017 In a cozy corner of his living room, with his 18-month-old son, McCoy, snuggled in his lap, Steven Taylor, 28, of Bell…
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Self-Sufficiency Standard for North Carolina
Monday, February 27, 2017
As the labor market continues to change, more and more families struggle to stretch their wages to meet the costs of basic necessities. Though these families are often not deemed “poor” by the official poverty measure, they lack enough income to…
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Melissa Adamson nominated for ECU's 40 Under 40 Award
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
In April of 2015, the Division of Student Affairs of East Carolina University premiered the 40 Under 40 Leadership Awards. This award was created in an effort to recognize emerging leaders that received their start at East Carolina University, as…
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Pizza Hut Raises $4,060.25 for the United Way of Pitt County
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Pizza Hut® Raises $4060.25 for the United Way of Pitt County’s Early Literacy Program Through Pizza Hut: The Literacy Project Donated funds to enable access to educational resources, empower teachers and inspire readers in Pitt County Pizza Hut…
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