Seth MacFarlane to match up to $1M for Reading Rainbow Kickstarter

[trcollinson]

I don't know of many campaigns where they are trying to help so many kids with an actual, proven set of media. As a youth with dyslexia, Reading Rainbow helped me so much. Now, as an adult with children of my own, I am glad I can help it to be brought to millions of new children!

[MattGrommes]

I have to say I never in a million years thought I would be close to putting Seth "Family Guy, Dads, Boobs, etc." MacFarlane on my hero list but between Cosmos and this I'll drafting his induction letter soon.

[sitkack]

What if I told you Seth MacFarlane and Elon Musk are engaged?

[ISL]

For scale, when they say they can reach 12,500 classrooms, there are about 130,000 schools in the United States.

http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=84

[trcollinson]

That is true, however I think about 50% of the schools are elementary schools, which is the target market for Reading Rainbow. The interesting numbers I would like to see are which schools do not have the funding to buy this kind of a program already. For example, the school which my kids go to certainly could afford a site wide license for a reading tool like Reading Rainbow. They often do spend 10's of thousands on programs like that in a year. If handled properly, this program could easily snowball into being available almost ubiquitously in the US and other locations in the world.

[nsxwolf]

When I watched the original Reading Rainbow, I was about 2-3 years too old for the books it was showcasing, but the presentation always sucked me in anyway. Good stuff.

[tehdik]

Seth MacFarlane

[trcollinson]

Oops! Corrected :) thank you