READ Global Wins 2013 Lipman Family Prize – Wednesday, April 14, 2013 The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania announced today the winner of the second annual Barry & Marie Lipman Family Prize – READ Global, an international non-profit bringing together education, enterprise, and community development through libraries that create lasting social change in rural South Asia
READ Global Receives $4.7M grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – Wednesday, Oct 26, 2011 READ Global announces a $4.7M grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to strengthen the organization’s capacity for future growth.
READ Global Commits to Empowering Women and Girls at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting - Tuesday, September 21, 2010 READ Global announces Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Action to create educational and economic opportunities for women and adolescent girls in rural communities in Bhutan, India and Nepal.
READ Bhutan launched - Wednesday, November 05, 2008 READ Global signs historic agreement with Royal Education Council of Bhutan.
First READ India center opens - Thursday, May 01, 2008 Rural Education and Development (READ) Global will hold a special inauguration ceremony on June 7, 2008 in West Bengal to mark the opening of its first community resource library in India.
READ Global Receives $3M Replication Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Tuesday, January 01, 2008 The Andrew Carnegie of the Developing World Will Double Libraries Created.
READ Global to launch READ India in 2007 - Monday, January 01, 2007 READ Global has announced plans to replicate its successful rural development program in India by the end of 2007.
READ Nepal Is Recipient of 2006 Access to Learning Award From Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Tuesday, August 01, 2006 READ (Rural Education and Development) Nepal, a program of Lake Tahoe, Nevada-based READ Global, has received the 2006 Access to Learning Award from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Deborah Jacobs and Darren Hoerner from the Gates Foundation with READ India staff and members of the local Rajasthan community in February 2011.
Former President Bill Clinton and READ Global ED Tina Sciabica at the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting went on stage to acknowledge READ's commitment to women's empowerment.