Tagged: reading rainbow

December 23, 2015 @ 3:49 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Back in Spring 2014, famous children show Reading Rainbow captured over $5 million on Kickstarter to reboot the series for the next generation. Now, nearly two years later, Reading Rainbow’s COO, Sangita Patel, is ready to sit down and share his thoughts about the show’s success – and the criticism… Read More

August 20, 2015 @ 10:09 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

BauBax, the self-dubbed world’s best travel jacket, has joined the Top 10 most funded Kickstarter campaigns of all-time by passing Reading Rainbow, which raised just over $5.4M in 2014. Already the most funded clothing item ever, BauBax has two weeks remaining in its campaign to… Read More

May 13, 2015 @ 11:14 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Beloved children’s brand Reading Rainbow launched SKYBRARY, the all-new web-based digital library of hand-curated children’s books and story-driven educational video field trips, created for kids ages 2-9. Designed to entice and excite children’s natural sense of curiosity about their world, SKYBRARY delivers an adventure-based unlimited book reading and… Read More

March 6, 2015 @ 8:37 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes announced LeVar Burton will be honored with the Innovator’s Award at the University of Southern California’s Bovard Auditorium. The event will take place during the 20th annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, one of the nation’s largest public literary festival,… Read More

February 20, 2015 @ 7:53 am By Erin Hobey  |  

To paraphrase Alicia Keys, those cats are on fire.  Exploding Kittens Kickstarter campaign came to an booming finish last night hitting $8,782,571 from 219,382 backers…and secured a record in Kickstarter history.   Booming Cats is “The Most-Backed Kickstarter Project of All Time,” dethroning  Bring Reading Rainbow Back for Every Child, Everywhere! campaign…. Read More

February 12, 2015 @ 8:41 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Nearly seven months after finding success on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, RRKIDZ, home of Reading Rainbow, has landed a new executive. Linda Benjamin has joined leading children’s media company as President of Global Strategy and Business Affairs. The news was announced by company co-founders Mark Wolfe and LeVar Burton.   Benjamin, most recently Executive… Read More

January 5, 2015 @ 2:47 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Celebrating the new year with a big bang, Kickstarter has announced it passed half a billion dollars in backer’s funding over the past 12 months. Kickstarter revealed, “3.3 million people from nearly every country on Earth pledged more than half a billion dollars (that’s 1,000 a… Read More

July 22, 2014 @ 8:58 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a few weeks following the closing of his “Reading Rainbow” campaign on Kickstarter, former host of the PBS children’s series LeVar Burton discusses his initial reaction to the project’s launch and success on the crowdfunding platform. Over 105,000 backers pledges a total of $5.4… Read More

July 2, 2014 @ 5:12 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Well, it’s OVER! The “Bring Reading Rainbow For Every Child, Everywhere” campaign has finally reached the finish line on Kickstarter and raised a total of $5,408,816 from 105,857 backers! Just days before it reached the stretch goal, the campaign’s organizer and former host, Mr. Burton stated, “If… Read More

July 1, 2014 @ 4:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With less than 24 hours until its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter comes to a close, “Reading Rainbow” has broken the all-time record of backers on the crowdfunding giant’s platform.  On Tuesday, the campaign reached over $4.8 million and has a total of 98,298 backers, which beats… Read More

June 30, 2014 @ 12:30 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

LeVar Burton’s “Reading Rainbow” crowdfunding campaign is now in the top five most successful Kickstarter projects of all time. The project is receiving the latest round of support from unexpected sources – the top four highest earning campaigns ever.  Pebble, OUYA, Pono and “Veronica Mars” announced that they… Read More

June 27, 2014 @ 1:15 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Adding more excitement to LeVar Burton’s “Bring ‘Reading Rainbow’ Back for Every Child, Everywhere” crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, the host of the children’s television series announced the project is getting some help from director/actor Seth MacFarlane.   According to Mr. Burton’s recent update, the “Family… Read More

June 25, 2014 @ 3:17 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Exciting news for “Reading Rainbow” fans! The PBS show’s crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter has reached $4m from over 83,000 fans. The project has a week left until it comes to a close on the platform and its hoping to reach $5M. As previously reported, not only… Read More

June 6, 2014 @ 12:56 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a little over week since the launch of his crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, LeVar Burton’s “Bring Reading Rainbow Back for Every Child, Everywhere” project has surpassed its original $1M goal and is now seeking $5M. Not only has it continued to be successful, the… Read More

May 29, 2014 @ 4:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just eleven hours after the launch of its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, former PBS children’s series “Reading Rainbow” surpassed its initial $1,000,000 goal. LeVar Burton, who hosted the show from 1983 to 2006, decided to launch the campaign through the crowdfunding giant to bring the show… Read More