Soho Center for Arts and Education, Inc.

Helping America's Children and Families

aka Soho or Soho Center   |   Madison, VA   |  http://www.sohobooks.org

Mission

The Soho Center is a 48 year old nonprofit offering free, innovative, cost-effective programs that benefit over 200,000 children each year. Soho's major focus is to enhance children's literacy, school readiness, and school success. Soho's Book Giveaways provide millions of dollars of new, high quality children's books each year across Virginia. Please see - http://www.child2000.org/books. Soho's National Children's Literacy Website gives the public tips to help children love reading and learn to read well. Please see - http://www.child2000.org/literacy Soho also helps individuals and families access reliable health, safety, and nutrition information and resources with our Virginia Health Information Project - http://www.vahealth.info Soho's main website - http://www.child2000.org

Ruling year info

1987

Principal Officer

Ms. Jeanna Beker

Main address

1564 West Hoover Rd

Madison, VA 22727 USA

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EIN

13-2943318

NTEE code info

Children's and Youth Services (P30)

Other Youth Development N.E.C. (O99)

Education N.E.C. (B99)

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Programs and results

What we aim to solve

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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.

Population(s) Served

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).

Population(s) Served

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.

Population(s) Served

Where we work

Our results

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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Charting impact

Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Financials

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Soho Center for Arts and Education, Inc.

Board of directors
as of 03/31/2020
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board chair

Jeanna Beker

Soho Center

George Beker

Jeanna Beker

Margaret Page

Kathy Frase