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.

We continue to set goals for Book Giveaways - and we meet them. For instance, we have expanded our Book Giveaways in the past 5 years from giving away 10,000 books to giving away over 300,000 each year.

We continue to get feedback and regular updates from numerous nonprofit organizations and child-related sites that partner with the Soho Center to distribute books and offer reading-related programs.

Our donors continue to support and expand our efforts on behalf of children and families across Virginia.

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.