Our holiday website giveaway was a smashing, splashing, reindeer-are-dashing hit! More than 14,000 votes were cast to decide which of three St. Louis nonprofits—Annie’s Hope, Together We Can or Ready Readers—would win a shiny new website as part of our Give with Integrity holiday promotion. 14,000 votes. That’s, like, almost the population of Clayton!

Ready Readers, a reading program for students in low-income communities, won the contest with more than 7,000 votes, and we’re happy-and-we-know-it excited to build them a site as amazing as their work. Think we’re exaggerating? Check this: Each Ready Readers volunteer adopts a preschool class for the school year, visiting that class weekly to read aloud and give the students new books. Amazing, right? Yeah, that’s what we thought. Now clap your hands!

The website redesign is revving up with meetings and greetings, and Ready Readers has big plans for a more interactive, user-friendly approach. Friend us on Facebook to follow the makeover, and watch out—once the new site is up it will be impossible to resist donating time and books to this amazing cause!