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First Book President Kyle Zimmer with students in Delaware

First Book Leadership

Executive Team Kyle Zimmer President, CEO, and Co-Founder In the late 1980s, Kyle Zimmer, then a practicing attorney, was volunteering at a soup kitchen in Washington, D.C. Realizing that the kids she was working with had no books in their lives, she set out with two friends to build a... Read more

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First Book In the News

2024 One School District Just Pulled 1,600 Books from Its Shelves—Including the Dictionary EdWeek, January 24, 2024 Recent research suggests that other teachers have also been negatively impacted by attempts at book censorship. In a 2023 nationally representative survey by First Book Research & Insights, a nonprofit educational research organization, researchers polled... Read more

Partner Case Studies

Molina Healthcare Healthy Mind, Healthy Body In partnership with Molina Healthcare, First Book developed “Healthy Mind, Healthy Body,” a comprehensive effort to provide new, high quality resources focused on social and emotional development—an area identified by First Book’s membership of educators and program leaders as a top health education priority,... Read more

Honors & Awards

2021 Gold Halo Award Engage for Good First Book won the 2021 Engage for Good Gold Halo Award for the Empowering Educators program that supports courageous conversations on race in the classroom. Read More 2020 Gold Halo Award, Silver Halo Award Engage for Good First Book and New York Life... Read more

image of a classroom of kids holding up books. In the bottom left corner is text that says, 'March For What Matters. Support diverse books!' Underneath the text is a red button that says, 'I'll March for What Matters'.