The Innovations in Reading Prize was an annual award given to organizations and individuals who "developed innovative means of creating and sustaining a lifelong love of reading." The prize was awarded by the National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards. The Innovations in Reading prize was founded in 2009, and from 2009 to 2014, the National Book Foundation recognized up to five winners, who each received $2,500. Beginning in 2015, the Foundation began recognizing a single $10,000 prize winner each year, as well as four honorable mentions. In 2018, the Foundation began recognizing each honorable mention organization with a $1,000 prize. The final award was given out in 2020.
Innovations in Reading prize winners
2009 Fathers Bridging the Miles (A Program of Read to Me International) Maricopa County Library District James Patterson's ReadKiddoRead.com readergirlz Robert Wilder
2010 Cellpoems 826 Valencia Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop Mount Olive Baptist Church United Through Reading
2011 Burton Freeman for My Own Book Kore Press Electric Literature/Electric Publisher YARN, the Young Adult Review Network
2012 Bookends: A Television Program for Teens Who Like to Read Lilli Leight Literacy Chicago for Reading Against the Odds Street Books Inger Upchurch for Real Men Read Storytime and Mentoring
2013 City National Bank for Reading Is the Way Up Little Free Library The Uni Project The Uprise Books Project Worldreader
2014 Blue Star Families' Books on Bases Books For Kids Chicago Books to Women in Prison Hopa Mountain's Storymakers Program Las Comadres Para Las Americas 2015 Reach Incorporated 2016 Next Chapter Book Club 2017 Barbershop Books
2018
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Innovations in Reading Honorable Mentions 2015 African Poetry Book Fund Call Me Ishmael Lambda Literary MotionPoems 2016 The Harry Potter Alliance LGBT Books to Prisoners Limitless Libraries Traveling Stories 2017 Books@Work Great Reading Games from Learning Ally Poetry-in-Motion Reach Out and Read
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The Appalachian Prison Book Project Friends of the Homer Library Jewish Women International's Library Initiative Words Without Borders Campus
2019
West Philadelphia Alliance for Children (WePAC)
2020
DIBS for Kids
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