Target Gives Major Support to Operation Outreach-USA

Thanks to our newest sponsor, the Target Corporation, over 6,500 students in 45 schools throughout the country will benefit from the Operation Outreach-USA program! Target’s generosity will supply books and curriculum materials to schools near their store locations in communities in Arizona, Delaware, Illinois, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia. “With Target’s major focus on education funding, it was a perfect fit with the Operation Outreach program,” said Operation Outreach President, Judy Golden. Headquartered in Minneapolis, MN, the Target Corporation donates over $2 million per week to charitable causes throughout the US.

The Operation Outreach Program at Work in Ohio

Operation Outreach President Judy Golden (left) and Connie McKamey, Executive Director of the Iams Foundation, recently visited the Patterson-Kennedy Elementary School and Jefferson Montessori School in Dayton, Ohio. Both schools are recipients of the OO-USA program, thanks to the P&G Pet Health Division, makers of Iams brand pet foods.

“Helping” them on their visits was a therapy dog, Great Dane “Blue,” who patiently listened while the kids read to him. View a video of this event, produced by Communicore of Dayton, OH, by clicking here.

Also on the itinerary for this trip was the presentation of an award to Operation Outreach by the P&G Live Learn and Thrive program. Click here to learn more.

Buckhead Rotary Club Honored for Best Literacy and Education Project

Congratulations to the Buckhead Rotary Club of Atlanta, GA for receiving its district’s award for Best Literacy and Education Project. Operation Outreach – USA partnered with this Rotary club to bring the OO-USA program to all 469 children of the Garden Hills Elementary School. Through the generosity of the Club and an anonymous donation by an Atlanta foundation all children, grades K-5, received the full OO-USA program, including two books per child, curriculum materials for classroom use, and bilingual parent guides for sharing at home.

During the years since it first contributed to the OO-USA program in 1996, the Buckhead Rotary has reached over 4,000 students and teachers at the Garden Hills Elementary School.

Buckhead Rotary Club President Lee Nunn summarized the project by saying, “This is one of the finest projects I’ve been involved in during my time in Rotary. When I talked to the children about their books and saw how delighted they were with them, I was very proud to be a Rotarian.”

Rotary Clubs throughout the country provide the Operation Outreach – USA program to schools in their communities. Click here to learn how your Club or organization can become part of this nationwide literacy and character education effort.

Goldsboro CDJ Promotes Literacy

Goldsboro Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep is sponsoring a national literacy program at Brogden Middle School. The program, Operation Outreach-USA, provides books for students and lesson plans for the teachers to help integrate the books' themes across the curriculum.

The presentation was made by Goldsboro Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep Dealer Hal Howard (right) in the school gymnasium. Dr. Earl Moore, Principal, and Gloria Burney, Curriculum Specialist,received the materials on behalf of the school's sixth grade students and faculty. This is the fifth year Goldsboro Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep has participated in the program. Carver Heights Elementary, Dillard Middle, Tommy's Road Elementary and School Street schools were previous recipients. Howard and the dealership donated $1,300 to provide the materials for the entire sixth grade class.

Teachers will use the books' themes and characters to generate discussions about responsibility, respect, determination and citizenship. The books will be used by the sixth graders in classroom instruction and to keep and take home to build personal libraries. Accelerated Reader quizzes to the books are also included to help schools assess their students' comprehension and retention.

Chrysler dealers nationwide support Operation Outreach-USA. "To achieve success you must stay in school and learn to read," Howard told the students. "Reading is the gateway to your future and all of us at Goldsboro Chrysler want to be a part of your success."

Operation Outreach-USA has reached nearly 900,000 students in schools in all 50 states. Click here to learn how your business or organization can become part of this nationwide literacy and character education effort.

Operation Outreach–USA Co-Founder Malcolm T. Stamper Dies

We announce with sadness that Mal Stamper passed away. The former President and Vice-Chairman of the Boeing Company and leader of the 747 jumbo jet project, Mr. Stamper co-founded Operation Outreach-USA in 1991 with Judith Golden, the organization’s current President.

“Mal’s passion for children and his drive to help them succeed and become good citizens was unparalleled,” related Ms. Golden. “His dream to put books into the hands of every child in the United States and beyond was contagious. He will be sorely missed. Operation Outreach–USA will honor his memory by seeing that his vision is realized.”

Mr. Stamper made his home in Seattle, WA, where his family-run business, Storytellers Ink, published the 39 children's books used in the Operation Outreach program.

For more information about Mr. Stamper’s life, family and work, please read this Seattle Times article. (May require free registration.)

Malcolm T. Stamper Legacy Fund

In honor of our founder, Operation Outreach-USA has established the Malcolm T. Stamper Legacy Fund. Mr. Stamper loved children and worked tirelessly to help all children lead happy lives. Giving children the gift of literacy through books that they would own and that taught character and good citizenship was his passion.

Memorial gifts to the Fund will be restricted to providing the OO-USA program to elementary schools with large at-risk populations, starting in Detroit, where Mr. Stamper spent his childhood, and in Seattle, where Mr. Stamper resided with his family.

All contributors will receive annual updates on the use of the fund and the impact that their gifts are having on the lives of young people.

Gifts can be sent to the MTS Legacy Fund, c/o Operation Outreach-USA, 10 Cochituate St., Natick, MA 01760 or via the web through the Network For Good. Click on the “Donate Now” button on the left. Checks should be made payable to Operation Outreach – USA.  Please indicate that this gift is for the Stamper Legacy Fund.