New to Tucson, Mary Jan Bancroft launched Make Way for Books 25 years ago to help children in need learn to read and have access to books at home.
Bill Finley Special to the Arizona Daily Star If the 25-year history of Make Way for Books ever becomes a book, Chapter 1 might feature the woman behind it all, the one who provided that first inspiration for what the organization would become.You won’t find her name on the Make Way board list, but she should be on the timeline.
It was Bancroft who networked with Tucson’s preschools and daycare providers. She wrote the grants, asked for donations and bought the books.Working from the foundation she poured 25 years ago, Make Way now has 33 staff members, a budget of $2.5 million, and plans to expand service to communities throughout Arizona in the next five years.
“Early childhood education was a pretty new field back then,” Bancroft said. “We knew how much lifetime learning happened in a child’s first eight years. We didn’t know how much of that was happening before age 5.” Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed | Omny Studio Bancroft soon learned of a Chicago nonprofit called “Hug-a-Book,” which donated books to preschools and then taught the teachers how to use them.
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