United Through Reading Wins $5,000 Grant from Yelp Foundation Thanks to Your Votes!
January 28, 2016
We’re thrilled to announce that United Through Reading has received a $5,000 grant from the Yelp Foundation! Thank you for supporting us with your votes in the Yelp Foundation Gives Local grant contest, which allowed us to take the first place grant! Of many nonprofits considered for recognition, only three in the San Diego area were nominated to participate in the grant contest, which awarded $10,000 total to local nonprofits.
It’s an honor to have been nominated and to see such an outpouring of support. The Yelp Foundation’s mission is to address the needs of local communities including: access to information, education, local economic development, and freedom of expression. Thanks to this grant, United Through Reading will be able to further that mission locally by connecting our military families through the read-aloud experience and encouraging early literacy skills in military children.
About Yelp Foundation Gives Local:
The Gives Local grant contest encouraged community members in 75 U.S. cities to vote for the organizations they wanted to support with grants and drew more than 160,000 votes. Each winning nonprofit aligns with an area of the Yelp Foundation’s mission to address the needs of local communities including: access to information, education, local economic development, and freedom of expression. The contest awarded $750,000 total in grants in January 2016. Learn more about the Yelp Foundation at YelpFoundation.org, or visit the Yelp blog to learn more about the contest and see a list of all 2016 grant winners.