Storybook Treasures was awarded a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Good Neighbor Grant in April 2021. Storybook Treasures is an early reader literacy organization which creates and delivers structured lesson plans to Pre-Kindergarten through third grade classrooms throughout Loudoun County and Virginia.

Denise Corbo, Founder, was inspired by her experience as an early childhood educator to create reading programs for her students that would engage them in a variety of ways and inspire them to grow into avid readers. Bringing stories to life and putting real books into the hands of each child is the basis of a program that has since been recognized as a component in higher scores on SOL testing in the schools and classrooms that have enrolled in the Storybook Treasures program.

When asked about the importance of this funding, Corbo explained, "the grant from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation allows us to expand the experiential learning program into more classrooms in the Loudoun community, putting books into the hands of more Loudoun County students."

Storybook Treasures is currently fundraising to meet additional goals that would help them improve distribution of materials to the students, such as securing a van for book distribution.

Storybook Treasures currently serves schools and communities in five states. They were recently tapped to provide their immersive literacy experience to the elementary students of an entire school district in Florida which will more than double the number of students currently served to 14,000 enrolled students.