United Through Reading is the nation's first nonprofit to promote the read-aloud experience for separated families.We offer deployed parents the opportunity to be video-recorded reading storybooks to their children which creates positive emotional connections and cultivates a love of reading.

Accomplishments Beneficiaries: 294,542 children and adults have connected through our read-aloud program in 2011. Impact: Surveys of United Through Reading participantsillustrate the family impact of simple stories shared across great distances:    79% stated that about thedeployment.    88% said that the recordings   75% reported that their after participating in United Through Reading.     Stewardship: We received our 5th consecutive four-star rating from Charity Navigator.  Goals 1. Military families will be strengthened in three ways:   Separation anxiety is reduced for children and parents.          Children�s literacy and interest in reading increases.                                 Reunions with deployed parents and their children are easier and more meaningful. 2. All service branches will have increased access to our family-unifying program:          Expand within Army, Coast Guard, and Air Force (branches that currently have less than 50% program adoption).          Sustain participation in Navy and Marines (branches with high adoption levels).           3.  Begin conversion from camcorders to online technology: launch pilot sites by end of 2011.   4. Launch pilot programs to serve wounded warriors at Naval Medical Center San Diego and Fort Belvoir Hospital (Virginia).          5. Serve 300,000 military family members.