Innovations in Reading Prize
The Innovations in Reading Prize is an annual award given to organizations and individuals who "have developed innovative means of creating and sustaining a lifelong love of reading."[1] The prize is awarded by the National Book Foundation, presenters of the National Book Awards. The Innovations in Reading prize was founded in 2009, and each year the National Book Foundation recognizes up to five winners, who each receive $2,500 and are featured prominently on the Foundation’s website and in other digital publicity that reaches around the world.
Past Winners range from the hyperlocal to the global in scope and ambition and have demonstrated success in encouraging diverse audiences to read more widely and deeply.
Potential candidates can nominate themselves or be recommended for consideration. Applications for the Innovations in Reading Prize are available online from mid-December to mid-February.[2]
Innovations in Reading prize winners
2009
- Fathers Bridging the Miles (A Program of Read to Me International)
- Maricopa County Library District
- James Patterson's ReadKiddoRead.com
- readergirlz
- Robert Wilder
2010
- Cellpoems
- 826 Valencia
- Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop
- Mount Olive Baptist Church
- United Through Reading
2011
- Burton Freeman for My Own Book
- Kore Press
- Electric Literature/Electric Publisher
- YARN, the Young Adult Review Netowrk
2012
- Bookends: A Television Program for Teens Who Like to Read
- Lilli Leight
- Literacy Chicago for Reading Against the Odds
- Street Books
- Inger Upchurch for Real Men Read Storytime and Mentoring
2013
- City National Bank for Reading Is the Way Up
- Little Free Library
- The Uni Project
- The Uprise Books Project
- Worldreader
2014
- Blue Star Families' Books on Bases
- Books For Kids
- Chicago Books to Women in Prison
- Hopa Mountain's Storymakers Program
- Las Comadres Para Las Americas
