Read Indeed

01/06/2025

We're back!!!! It's been quiet on Read Indeed's end during the last few years as our founder, Maria attended college and graduate school at Notre Dame and Ryan traveled as a missionary and began his undergraduate studies at the University of St. Thomas. Now Maria is back in the Twin Cities, starting law school in the fall and she's eager for Read Indeed to expand its literacy mission of providing books for children who have no books in their homes. To date, Read Indeed has donated nearly 4 million books since Maria founded the organization back in 2008!

To kick things off, Read Indeed is partnering with Annie Hayes Wellness (https://www.anniehayeswellness.com) during January and February to collect funds to help Read Indeed purchase books for low-income kids in the Twin Cities.

We are so excited to see what the future holds for our organization If you'd like to donate to Read Indeed, please visit https://www.givemn.org/donate/Read-Indeed

01/30/2024

Fifteen years after Maria founded Read Indeed, she is getting read to graduate from Notre Dame's graduate school in May, move back to Minnesota....and she is looking forward to what the future holds for Read Indeed! Stay tuned!

10/28/2022

Read Indeed is celebrating another big book donation! Thanks to a huge donation of more than 60,000 books from The Child's World, a children's book publisher in Mankato, MN, we are able to provide lots of books to the Salvation Army for distribution to children in need during the upcoming Christmas holiday!

04/25/2022

Read Indeed has been busy filling Little Free Libraries throughout the Twin Cities with the books that are continually purchased by and donated to our organization! Congrats to our founder, Maria Keller, who is heading to graduate school at the University of Notre Dame. Our president, Ryan Keller, is taking a gap year to work as a Catholic missionary with NET Ministries before heading to college. Read Indeed will continue its mission, albeit in a smaller way, until Maria and Ryan can take the helm once again.

02/24/2022

So many books, so many kids in need! Read Indeed is continually providing books to students who have no books in their homes. To learn more about our organization, visit www.readindeed.org

12/20/2021

Read Indeed continually receives more and more requests for books as the pandemic continues and students have limited access to books in their homes. If you are looking for a nonprofit for a year-end contribution, please consider Read Indeed as the need is great. Thank you!

When Maria was 8 years old, she learned how many kids throughout the world don't own a single book. As an avid reader, Maria became determined to change that! Since 2009, Read Indeed has gathered and gifted more than 3.3 MILLION books to needy kids.  Our organization...

12/02/2021

10/27/2021

Thanks so much to Brown Wilbert for their incredibly generosity!

09/07/2021

A HUGE shoutout to The Child's World, Read Indeed's favorite children's book publisher in North Mankato. They are completing their donation of 106,000 NEW books that will go directly to underprivileged children being served through the Salvation Army's programs! The Child's World has been partnering with Read Indeed for more than 13 years. Thank you so much! Salvation Army North The Child's World

08/27/2021

This is jaw dropping.

The MN Dept of Education released the 2020 test score results for students in K-12. Only 6.37 percent of students in 1st-12th grade are proficient in reading in Minneapolis.

Please help Read Indeed get books to these kids to build their home libraries and get them reading. All donations to Read Indeed are tax deductible. Click on the link below to donate. Thanks!

https://www.mightycause.com/organization/Read-Indeed

07/13/2021

Read Indeed partnered with Capstone Publishers to provide hundreds of books to Henry Torres from Value of Five at a recent soccer event. All the kids were able to take a bag of new books home! Thanks to Capstone for their incredible generosity! And thanks to Henry for continuing to get books to kids!

06/30/2021

Things are getting busy at Read Indeed again! We are going to be receiving about 200,000 BRAND NEW books over the next 3 months from some of our favorite publishers! Thanks so much to these literary partners!