Bob’s Discount Furniture Employees Visit Inova Children’s Hospital Youth Patients
Furniture World News Desk on
3/25/2017
Cathy Poulin, public relations and community outreach director of Bob’s Discount Furniture, dresses up as the Cat in the Hat to read to patients of the Inova Children’s Hospital.
Bob's Furniture recently announced that Patients at Inova Children’s Hospital got a visit from the Cat in the Hat on Tuesday, March 21, 2017. As part of a year-long partnership with Reach Out and Read, the Bob’s Discount Furniture Outreach team visited patients at the hospital in Falls Church, VA to read Tish Rabe’s Oh, the Things You Can Do that are Good for You!.
The outreach team donated 100 new books by Rabe and 100 Cat in the Hat character hats to the hospital, along with a $1,000 gift card to Bob’s Discount Furniture.
More about Bob’s Discount Furniture: Bob’s Discount Furniture provides a wide variety of quality furnishings – including living room furniture, bedroom furniture, dining room furniture, office furniture and home accents – at everyday low prices. The stores also offer a unique and enjoyable shopping experience featuring cafes in each store with free gourmet coffee, ice cream, cookies and candy. Since 1991, Bob’s has built strong customer loyalty by offering the highest-value home furnishings at the lowest possible prices. With 76 furniture stores located throughout New England, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Illinois, and Indiana, the Manchester, Conn.-based company has become the 15th-largest U.S. furniture chain and proudly holds an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau. Bob’s is committed to supporting communities where its stores are located through a variety of charitable giving efforts. Bob’s Discount Furniture Charitable Foundation has anchored the company’s philanthropic work for more than 15 years. In addition, the Bob’s Outreach program was created as a separate entity to help schools and children-related charities. The company donates more than $2.5 million to charities through these programs each year. For more information, visit http://www.bobscares.org/.
More about Reach Out and Read: Reach Out and Read is an evidence-based nonprofit organization of doctors and nurses who promote early literacy in pediatric exam rooms nationwide by giving new books to children and advice to parents about the importance of reading aloud. Reach Out and Read builds on the unique relationship between parents and medical providers to develop critical early reading skills in children from birth. As a result of this literacy intervention, Reach Out and Read families read together more often, and their children enter kindergarten better prepared to succeed, with larger vocabularies and stronger language skills. Nationwide, Reach Out and Read’s 20,000 medical providers serve 4.5 million children and their families annually at 5,500 pediatric practices, health centers, and hospitals with a focus on those that serve low-income communities. For more information, visit www.reachoutandread.org.