Mike Navisky Named Director of Development and Communication at Raising A Reader Massachusetts

Jamaica Plain resident Mike Navisky has been named Director of Development and Communication for Raising A Reader Massachusetts, a statewide, early literacy non-profit organization.

Mr. Navisky brings over 10 years of experience from Rafanelli Events, the Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston. He has also worked with numerous other not for profit organizations including Mass General Hospital for Children, the Boston Red Sox Foundation, Whittier Street Health Center and Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital.

Raising A Reader MA Executive Director Donna DiFillippo commented, “Mike brings an exceptional talent to our organization, and his enthusiasm and passion for our work has energized the entire staff.  I’m confident that with Mike’s leadership in communications and his creativity with events, Raising A Reader MA’s outreach will continue to grow beyond the nearly 10,000 children and families we are currently reaching across the state.”

Raising A Reader MA is an evidence-based early literacy organization dedicated to preventing the academic achievement gap by helping families of young children living in vulnerable communities develop, practice and maintain home-based literacy routines critical for school success. Our work, which both increases access to books and offers families tools and support for strengthening the culture of reading at home, is driven by 25 years of research that shows the single most significant factor influencing a child’s academic success is being regularly read to by a parent/caregiver before kindergarten. For more information: www.raisingareaderma.org.