Our Report To Community
This report highlights places and spaces that bring reading alive. Some, where Calgary Reads has lived and worked; others we’ve helped create with colleagues.
Throughout our 20-year history, we’ve built our knowledge and understanding of the importance of environment in our work to support children’s literacy. We know that intentional ‘place-making’ – in our schools, homes and community settings – can help bring children to reading.
In 2019-2020 we worked throughout the community to increase book access for children through place and space building initiatives that have changed the reading landscape of our city.
Read the full Report to Community.
Thank you to our donors
Through our many relationships and partnerships, we are creating a reading revolution to strengthen childhood literacy. We’d like to thank every member of our community for helping us give every child the opportunity to read, learn and grow.
Leaders – $50,000 +
Anonymous Donor
Canadian Energy Executive Foundation
Cenovus Energy
Chevron Canada Resources
James and Patricia Burns Flow Through Fund at Calgary Foundation
Prosser Charitable Foundation
RBC Foundation
Innovators – $25,000 +
Rotary Club of Calgary
Builders – $10,000 +
ATB Financial
Bryan Pinney
Burns Memorial Fund
Calgary and Area Child Advocacy Centre
Enbridge Inc.
James Hill
Jennifer Pierce
Northern American Construction Group
Pembina Pipeline Corporation
Prairie Crocus Foundation
Ross Wonnick
Shaw Charity Classic Foundation
Spruce Meadows Leg Up Foundation
Telus Future Friendly Foundation
United Way of Calgary and Area
Believers – $5,000 +
Anonymous Donor
Borden Ladner Gervais
Deloitte
Intact Insurance Company
James Kerr Estate Fund at The Calgary Foundation
Joanne Young
John & Elsie Collins Foundation
Norreen Baker Fund at Calgary Foundation
Osum Oil Sands Corporation
Painted Pony Energy Ltd.
Plains Midstream Canada
Sam Ousher Switzer Charitable Foundation
TransAlta Corporation
Vicki and Stu Reid
Friends – $1,000 +
Alan Moon
Anne Christopoulos
Anonymous Donor
Cabin Brewing Company
Canadian Federation of University Women Calgary Chapter
Carbert Waite LLP
Carol Smith
Edmonton Public Schools Foundation
Elizabeth Marshall
Gail Boehm
Gallagher Benefit Services (Canada) Group
Iris & Charles Porter Fund at The Calgary Foundation
Jaclyn & Rhys Mersereau
Joan Green
Junior League of Calgary
Kaimanu Fund at Calgary Foundation
Karen Lynn Pescott Foundation Fund at The Calgary Foundation
Keith MacLeod
Kiwanis Club of Calgary Chinook
Klatt Family Foundation
Martha Parker
Maurice McCaig
Monica Mochoruk
One Small Act Fund at Calgary Foundation
Rocky Mountain Charitable GivingFund
Rotary Partners of Calgary at Stampede Park
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
Shell Canada
Steacy Collyer
Susie, Mavis, Judy & Friends
Tristan Laut
West Dalhousie Book Club
Other Partners and Events
Adam Legge
Alberta Health Services
Andre Mamprin
Calgary Board of Education
Calgary Catholic School District
Calgary Food Bank
Calgary Public Library
Campaign for Grade Level Reading
Canadian Children’s Literacy Foundation
CBC Calgary
CUPS Calgary Society
Dekada Corp.
Discovery House
Early Childhood Coalitions of Calgary & Area
Edmonton Public Schools
Families Matter
First 2000 Days Network
First Book Canada
Foothills School Division
Goodwill Impact Centre – Edmonton
LENA
Livingstone Range School Division
Monogram Coffee
Mount Royal University
Pages Books on Kensington
Patricia Glen
Regional Collaborative Service Delivery (RCSD)
RGO Products Ltd.
Rocky View Schools
Scholastic Canada
Shaw Charity Classic
St. Mary’s University – Calgary
Store & Go
Story Book Theatre
The Educational Partnership Foundation
Todd Hirsch
University of Alberta
University of Calgary
Veronica Funk
Waldo’s Imaging Ltd.
YW Calgary
Please note: Due to space limitations, this list reflects supporters who made financial donations of $1,000 or more.
CBC Calgary Reads Big Book Sale
Our Annual Big Book Sale was cancelled this year due to the pandemic, a major blow to our operational fundraising and to the city’s literacy landscape, but we’ll be back next year will a re-imagined and resilient 2021 BBS!
5368
Students
were supported by our tutoring program during our years located at Valley View School — our first-ever and continuing legacy Reading Place School
10, 374
Books
donated through our rapid-response to the COVID Pandemic, called the “Books + Pipeline”
24, 532
People
have visited our Little Red Reading House since it’s opening in 2017
View previous reports to see how Calgary Reads’ has evolved and expanded to provide more help for young readers.
Watch our 2018 Report to Community: The Story of a Book
