Reading Makes a Difference ™

This award-winning grant-underwritten program encourages character development at Title I schools by teaching compassion while students expand their reading skills. The centerpiece of the program is a Jester & Pharley Read-A-Thon which enables students to donate copies of "The Jester Has Lost His Jingle" and Jester & Pharley Doll to a local hospital. Click here to see which schools The Jester & Pharley Phund have visited.

• To encourage development of literacy skills with a Jester & Pharley Read-A-Thon and to provide a means for these students to express compassion
  
• To provide participating schools with supplemental teaching aids that inspire students to read, learn and create
  
• To give hospital patients inspiring Jester & Pharley books and dolls

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For additional information, please contact
Program Coordinator Clare Carron at clare@thejester.org