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Name:	Ready Readers
Address:	1974 Innerbelt Business Center Drive
	St. Louis, MO 63114
Phone:	314-564-8070
Web Address:	www.readyreaders-stlouis.com

Ready Readers (RR) meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.

Ready Readers trains, places and supervises more than 450 volunteers who read weekly to children, ages 2-5, who attend early childhood centers in low-income communities in the St. Louis area. The same reader always reads to the same children, allowing the children to associate a special person with the fun of reading. Six or seven times during the year, readers also give the children personalized, new books to take home for further enjoyment. Volunteers are currently reading to more than 7,000 preschool-age children each week at 117 early childhood centers. Ready Readers will give away more than 50,000 new books during the 2010-2011 school year. Ready Readers also collects and redistributes gently used books to low-income early childhood centers for classroom use.The same reader always reads to the same children, allowing the children to associate a special person with the fun of reading. Six or seven times during the school year, readers also give the children personalized new books to take home for further enjoyment. Volunteers are currently reading to over 6,500 children each week, at 108 preschools. Ready Readers will give away 42,000 books in the 2009-2010 school year. Ready Readers also collects and redistributes gently used books to needy preschools for classroom use.

For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2010, RR's program expenses were:

Reading Program	217,607
Total Program Expenses:	$217,607

Chief Executive : Lisa Greening , Executive Director

Compensation*:

Chair of the Board: Susan Kalishman Goldberg
Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation: Community Volunteer

Board Size: 20

Paid Staff Size: 4

*Compensation includes annual salary and, if applicable, benefit plans, expense accounts, and other allowances.

Method(s) Used:

direct mail, invitations to fund raising events, grant proposals, internet

Fund raising costs were 17% of related contributions. (Related contributions, which totaled $349,659, are donations received as a result of fund raising activities.)

This organization is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.

The following information is based on RR's unaudited financial statements for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2010.

Source of Funds
Contribution Revenue	231,779
Special events- (net)	105,420
In-kind Contributions	12,460
Interest Income	582
Total Income	$350,241

Uses of Funds as a % of Total Expenses

Programs: 66%  Fund Raising: 19%  Administrative: 15%

Total income				$350,241
	Program expenses			$217,607
	Fund raising expenses			60,306
	Administrative expenses			47,208
Total expenses				$325,121
Income in Excess of Expenses				25,120
Beginning net assets				206,835
Ending net assets				231,955
Total liabilities
Total assets				$231,955