Read for Children: Be the Superhero in a Child’s Story!
Unleash Your Inner Superhero This May
This May, Next Door’s annual Read for Children event returns — and we’re calling on our community superheroes to help power a month filled with reading, imagination, and bright futures for Milwaukee’s youngest learners.
Read for Children highlights the importance of early literacy and provides a boost of resources for early learning in our classrooms and our families’ homes.
Last Year’s Highlights
See the extraordinary superheroes who read, donated, and championed early literacy in 2025. Their superpowers made real change — now it’s your turn to suit up!
Event Goals
- Read to children for 135,000 minutes
- Raise $135,000 for Next Door’s early literacy education
- Collect 1,000 new board and picture books for children ages birth to five
Ways You’ll Be Able to Join the Adventure:
Donate Early to Fuel the Mission
Your support helps strengthen early literacy programming Milwaukee children. Early gifts make an immediate impact and help launch our month‑long reading quest with momentum.
Sponsor
Help us reach our goal of raising $135,000 in support of Next Door’s Books literacy education through your sponsorship. Businesses and organizations can join our league of literacy champions by supporting Read for Children through event sponsorship — a meaningful way to uplift early learning while spotlighting your commitment to our community.
Sponsorship levels include $500, $1,000, $2,500, $5,000, $10,000 and $25,000 presenting sponsor.
Volunteer as a Reading Superhero
Opportunities to help us reach our goal of reading to children for 135,000 minutes will be posted soon. Check out our Volunteer page for more information or reach out to Missy at volunteer@nextdoormke.org with questions.
Stay Tuned, Heroes!
Mark your calendar now! Full event details, volunteer opportunities, and registration links will be shared soon.
Together, we’ll make this year’s Read for Children the most super one yet.