Soho Center for Arts and Education, Inc.
Helping America's Children and Families
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
It is crucial for young children to have positive experiences with books so they can enter school ready to learn and succeed. It's also crucial for school-age children to learn to read and read well.
The Soho Center actively promotes children's literacy, school readiness, grade-level reading, and school success with our large-scale Book Giveaways (www.child2000.org/books) and our Children's Literacy Website (www.child2000.org/literacy).
Many of the children who receive Soho's books are low-income.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
State-wide Book Giveaways
Soho Center gives away millions of dollars of new, high quality children's books to support children's literacy, school readiness, and school success. Recipients include over 1,000+ Head Start classrooms, several children's hospitals, Boys & Girls Clubs, after-school programs, public libraries, home-visiting programs, summer feeding programs, early childhood programs, and other child-related organizations.
National Children's Literacy Website
The Soho Center created the National Children's Literacy Website to provide parents, grandparents, child care providers, teachers, and community volunteers with useful, easy-to-understand, easy-to-implement advice to promote children's literacy, school readiness, and school success. The site is completely non-commercial, providing helpful information to the public to benefit large numbers of children. Because children need to read (and read well).
Virginia Health Information Project
The Virginia Health Information Project (VHIP) provides the public with a 24/7 online website to access reliable health, safety, and nutrition resources and information. The VHIP website is completely non-commercial and provides an extraordinary range of reputable national, state, and county-specific information and resources to benefit children, adults, and seniors.
Originally funded and supported by two Virginia Attorneys General, the site provides the public with access to 14,000 health hot-lines in English and Spanish, a Health Library, information about prescription drugs, doctors, hospitals, and more. If it's about health, it's here.
The site is a public service to help all age groups access the most reliable health, safety, and nutrition resources and information - and it's one more way that the Soho Center helps large numbers of families.
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of books distributed
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
State-wide Book Giveaways
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
The Soho Center donated over 300,000 new quality children's books to children's hospitals, child care-related organizations and other literacy/education -focused programs
Number of books distributed to sick or disabled children
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
State-wide Book Giveaways
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Books donated through Book Giveaway program to several children's hospitals.
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
The Soho Center wants to continue to help over 200,000 primarily low-income children each year to love books, learn to read, and read well.
Soho also wants to help hundreds of child-related organizations to have the needed literacy resources to better serve children and families.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Soho identifies, secures, inventories, and temporarily stores hundreds of thousands of new, high-quality children's books. Soho then gives these books away to hundreds of child-related programs, 92 libraries, 1,000 Head Start classrooms, 3 children's hospitals, home-visiting programs, the USO, hundreds of Boys & Girls Clubs and after-school programs, and others.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
The Soho Center and its Director has 46 years of relevant and successful experience helping large numbers of children and families.
Our free programs and services help over 200,000 primarily low-income children each year.
And our annual administrative expenses are only 1%.
We are well positioned to continue our work - and, with additional support, wisely expand our efforts.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
The Soho Center celebrates 46 years of helping many hundreds of thousands of children, families, and child-related organizations.
We remain as committed as ever to offering free, cost-effective, needed programs and services that benefit large numbers of children and families.
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Soho Center for Arts and Education, Inc.
Board of directorsas of 03/31/2020
Jeanna Beker
Soho Center
George Beker
Jeanna Beker
Margaret Page
Kathy Frase