Click on the graphic above to see a video from our 2025 Cool Kids Read campaign.
Thank you to Frosty and Christina Burns of the Schmidt Family Restaurant Group for helping us distribute free books during this year’s Cool Kids Read campaign!
The Kiwanis Club of Portsmouth hosts its annual Cool Kids Read service project in partnership with Shawnee State University. Cool Kids Read, first launched In the fall of 2021, was developed and implemented to promote literacy to second graders in Scioto County and encourage them to get excited about reading. We currently serve eight schools in seven districts.
The participants are members of the Kiwanis Key Clubs at Clay, Portsmouth, East, Wheelersburg, West, Green, and Notre Dame high schools as well as Builders Club members from Notre Dame and Circle K Club members from Shawnee State University. These are all service clubs sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Portsmouth.
Our most recent campaign in the spring of 2025 provided free books to more than 500 second-grade students at eight elementary schools. Kids who attend our Kids Day event on September 20, 2025, will also receive free books.
On April 26, 2023, the Kiwanis Club of Portsmouth received an award fromServeOhio through the Ohio Commission on Service and Volunteerism for our Cool Kids Read program. The award came with a $1,000 grant to support the continuation of the program.
The ServeOhio Awards, made possible through support from the American Electric Power Foundation, recognize outstanding people, groups, and initiatives in each region of Ohio who make great contributions to their communities through service and volunteerism.
Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated
to changing the world one child and one community
at a time. We meet every Wednesday from noon to 1:00 p.m.
at Shawnee State University's Morris University Center.
Today, our Key Club members at Green High School passed out free books to the second graders at Green Elementary as part of the Kiwanis Club of Portsmouth’s Cool Kids Read program! Thanks again to Frosty for coming from Wendy’s and the Schmidt Family Restaurant Group.
Our Key Club members from Portsmouth High School recently passed out free books to the second graders at East Portsmouth Elementary in Sciotoville as part of the Kiwanis Club of Portsmouth’s Cool Kids Read program! Thanks again to Frosty for coming from Wendy’s and the Schmidt Family Restaurant Group.
Cool Kids Read
Click on the graphic above to see a video from our 2025 Cool Kids Read campaign.
Thank you to Frosty and Christina Burns of the Schmidt Family Restaurant Group for helping us distribute free books during this year’s Cool Kids Read campaign!
The Kiwanis Club of Portsmouth hosts its annual Cool Kids Read service project in partnership with Shawnee State University. Cool Kids Read, first launched In the fall of 2021, was developed and implemented to promote literacy to second graders in Scioto County and encourage them to get excited about reading. We currently serve eight schools in seven districts.
The participants are members of the Kiwanis Key Clubs at Clay, Portsmouth, East, Wheelersburg, West, Green, and Notre Dame high schools as well as Builders Club members from Notre Dame and Circle K Club members from Shawnee State University. These are all service clubs sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Portsmouth.
Our most recent campaign in the spring of 2025 provided free books to more than 500 second-grade students at eight elementary schools. Kids who attend our Kids Day event on September 20, 2025, will also receive free books.
On April 26, 2023, the Kiwanis Club of Portsmouth received an award from ServeOhio through the Ohio Commission on Service and Volunteerism for our Cool Kids Read program. The award came with a $1,000 grant to support the continuation of the program.
The ServeOhio Awards, made possible through support from the American Electric Power Foundation, recognize outstanding people, groups, and initiatives in each region of Ohio who make great contributions to their communities through service and volunteerism.
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Kiwanis Club of Portsmouth
Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated
to changing the world one child and one community
at a time. We meet every Wednesday from noon to 1:00 p.m.
at Shawnee State University's Morris University Center.
Today, our Key Club members at Green High School passed out free books to the second graders at Green Elementary as part of the Kiwanis Club of Portsmouth’s Cool Kids Read program! Thanks again to Frosty for coming from Wendy’s and the Schmidt Family Restaurant Group.
Kiwanis partners with Shawnee State University’s Project Bear program and Scioto County Public Library to make #CoolKidsRead possible.
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Our Key Club members from Portsmouth High School recently passed out free books to the second graders at East Portsmouth Elementary in Sciotoville as part of the Kiwanis Club of Portsmouth’s Cool Kids Read program! Thanks again to Frosty for coming from Wendy’s and the Schmidt Family Restaurant Group.
Kiwanis partners with Shawnee State University’s Project Bear program and Scioto County Public Library to make #CoolKidsRead possible.
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