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About Us
We are a non-profit company working with NCAA athletes and universities to motivate kids to have fun reading, by:
There are many benefits from your involvement in the Reading With Our Future Fans literacy program, but none more important than reaching and teaching one child at a time to read!
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." -- Dr. Seuss
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." -- Dr. Seuss
Reading With Our Future Fans started at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. The Iowa Student Athlete Advisory Committee adopted Reading With Our Future Fans as a community service project. The athletes took "behind-the-scenes" pictures of their lives as student-athletes, for the purpose of creating books for beginning readers. What began as a project to motivate and excite a single, struggling six-year old reader, who happened to love the Iowa Hawkeyes, evolved into a growing program ready for deployment by NCAA universities and colleges across America.
Our dream was to make the books widely available to kids and schools, while maintaining total compliance with NCAA regulations. Reading With Our Future Fans sought the council of the Ice Miller Law Firm in Indianapolis, Indiana, to prepare a proposal of the Reading With Our Future Fans program approach. The NCAA reviewed our literacy program and provided compliancy guidelines enabling us to use photographs of athletes with remaining eligibility. Following this guidance, Reading With Our Future Fans can reach and teach kids across the country.
Our vision and mission are to motivate our youngest readers to reach their highest literacy potential by providing non-fiction books that excite, and promote literacy through college sports. Reading With Our Future Fans is dedicated to enlightening our young readers to the fundamentals of practice, teamwork, performance, and good sportsmanship, while showing the student athlete's commitment to academic excellence.
Our dream was to make the books widely available to kids and schools, while maintaining total compliance with NCAA regulations. Reading With Our Future Fans sought the council of the Ice Miller Law Firm in Indianapolis, Indiana, to prepare a proposal of the Reading With Our Future Fans program approach. The NCAA reviewed our literacy program and provided compliancy guidelines enabling us to use photographs of athletes with remaining eligibility. Following this guidance, Reading With Our Future Fans can reach and teach kids across the country.
Our vision and mission are to motivate our youngest readers to reach their highest literacy potential by providing non-fiction books that excite, and promote literacy through college sports. Reading With Our Future Fans is dedicated to enlightening our young readers to the fundamentals of practice, teamwork, performance, and good sportsmanship, while showing the student athlete's commitment to academic excellence.
About the Author
Ann Bell is the founder of Reading With Our Future Fans.org, Inc. (RWOFF), a non-profit organization, making books about college sports widely available to beginning readers. Charitable investments are used to provide free books to kids-in-need. RWOFF received guidance from the NCAA, to expand its literacy program across America. Ann is a Reading Recovery teacher in the Iowa City Community School District in Iowa City, Iowa. She has a Master of Arts degree in Developmental Reading from the University of Iowa, is a certified K-12 Reading Specialist, and holds an Elementary Education certification with Reading Endorsements from the University of Iowa. Ann has a Bachelor of Science degree in Health and Physical Education from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She has four children, all of whom are University of Iowa graduates.
"Meet the children where they are; love them; learn from them; teach them; and they will say, 'we learned to read ourselves' " - Ann Bell, Founder of Reading With Our Future Fans
"Meet the children where they are; love them; learn from them; teach them; and they will say, 'we learned to read ourselves' " - Ann Bell, Founder of Reading With Our Future Fans
About the Team
Christi Youngquist is the Director of Operations at Reading With Our Future Fans.org, Inc. She started out working for RWOFF on a volunteer basis while she was a student at the University of Iowa. She graduated from Iowa with a degree in Political Science and concentration in Entreprenuership in 2007. Christi is receiving her Masters of Business Administration.