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About Us

Our Mission

Read to Me Project helps under-served children achieve kindergarten readiness and a lifetime of literacy by empowering school age brothers and sisters to read to their young siblings at home. We also raise public awareness about the literacy crisis and the need for language development and pre-reading skills during a child's first five years of life.

Our Vision

Every child entering kindergarten prepared to succeed.

Annual Reports

Read to Me Project’s Annual Report for the prior July 1 to June 30 fiscal year is published every September.

990 Tax Return

Independent Financial Reviews

2020-2021 2019-2020 2018-2019
2017-2018 2016-2017

Our Staff

Julia Foster

Executive Director

Julia Foster

Executive Director

Julia Foster brings over a decade of experience working in nonprofit organizations around Monterey County. She deeply believes in the power of literacy and the lifelong opportunities that it brings. Most recently, Julia was the Executive Director for the Foundation for Monterey County Free Libraries. As a self-proclaimed “people person", Julia is passionate about connecting with those around her and building relationships. She holds a BA in Translation and Interpretation from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a MA in International Public Policies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.

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Mary De Groat

Director of Development and Marketing

Mary De Groat

Director of Development and Marketing

Mary De Groat is a marketing communications executive with more than twenty years’ experience creating and directing consumer and business-to-business brand and content marketing strategies in global corporate, state government and local non-profit business environments.

Amanda Evans

Program Director

Amanda Evans

Program Director

Amanda Evans has more than fifteen years of broad business experience in both local and international corporate and non-profit environments and has held leadership positions in training and development, communications and program management. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada and an advanced certificate in training program design and facilitation from UCSC.

Every dollar can make a big impact

Please help change the low-literacy situation in our communities. Every dollar and helping hand can make a big difference.

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