Clinton Global Initiative Denver Colorado.

Hillary Clinton has taken on a collaboration with too small to fail project business, medical and non profit partners launch. New national effort at CGI America to help close the word gap. They are promoting literacy starting an infants first days, their doctor's visit and there on; books that a parent may need to read to their child aloud so that they can teach their child understanding from a very young age. The effort takes a multi-pronged approach toward equipping parents with the best tools to ensure that their children are prepared to learn as they enter school.

Too small to fail the AAP-an organization representing 62,000 pediatricians-will share messages across their networks and media platforms about the importance of talking, reading out loud and singing to children from birth in order to build vocabulary and promote healthy brain development.

To jump start the partnership, Scholastic has donated 500,000 new, age-appropriate children's books for distribution through Reach Out and Read, the nonprofit organization that works with 20,000 medical providers nationwide to promote early reading and give books to families at pediatric visits.

Reach Out and Read will also distribute a toolkit to be developed by the AAP. with support from Too Small to Fail, which will equip pediatricians with resources to educate parents on how to use everyday activities to improve communication with their infants and toddlers.