Reading In Motion was the Signature Grant Recipient of the 2007 Humana Chicago Benefits Program.
2006
Reading In Motion was the winner of the Andrew Family Foundation 3 year “Opportunity Knocks” Grant.
Reading In Motion was one of four beneficiaries of the 2006 Chicago Tribune Charities United Partners Campaign.
Reading In Motion was one of the three Finalists for the 2006 Humana Chicago Benefits Grant.
2005
Reading In Motion one of six beneficiaries of the 2005 Chicago Tribune Charities United Partners Campaign
Reading In Motion was one of three Finalists for the 2005 Humana Chicago Benefits Grant.
2004
Reading In Motion was one of seven beneficiaries of the 2004 Chicago Tribune Charities Donor Advised Giving Campaign for literacy.
2003
Reading In Motion received the
Arts & Business Council of Chicago’s ABBY Award for Arts/Business
Partnership with Quaker Oats.
Executive Director Karl Androes was
awarded the Benjamin Gingiss Service Award by the Illinois Humane
Society for exemplifying the Society's mission of benefiting disadvantaged
children in the State of Illinois.
2001
Reading In Motion received The
American Alliance for Theatre and Education’s Lin Wright
Special Recognition Award.
Reading In Motion was one of only
22 reading programs selected by the Chicago Public Schools to provide
service to its 200 lowest-performing schools.
2000
Reading In Motion was the recipient
of the Distinguished Public Service Award given by DePaul University's
Public Services Graduate Program.
Research on the correlation between
Reading In Motion's drama-based reading instruction and improved
reading comprehension test scores merited a juried article in The
Journal of Educational Research.
Two of Reading In Motion's research studies were
cited in a report by Harvard University, entitled "The Arts
and Academic Improvement: What the Evidence Shows."
1999
In 1999, the Illinois Theatre Association
awarded Karl Androes with an Outstanding Contribution Award for Reading In Motion's use of creative dramatics to teach reading.
1997
Reading In Motion received the Arts & Business
Council of Chicago’s Management Excellence Award (1997).
Reading In Motion Executive Director Karl Androes
accepts DePaul University's award, with Pat Ford of the Chicago Annenberg
Challenge (left) and former Reading In Motion board chairperson Diane
Yetter (right).
