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Article: MOVERS & SHAKERS - Business people on the move
- Article from:
- The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
- Article date:
- September 19, 2009
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Reach Out and Read, a nonprofit organization that works with
doctors and nurses to promote early literacy, named Earl Martin
Phalen of Quincy as its new chief executive officer. Phalen will
work out of the organization's national headquarters in Boston. As a
student at Harvard Law School in 1992, Phalen founded Building
Educated Leaders for Life, a nonprofit organization that tutors and
mentors schoolchildren who have fallen behind their peers. As CEO of
that organization for 15 years, Phalen grew it from a local
community service project serving 20 students to a national
nonprofit that educates more than 12,000 children annually.
"I am honored by the opportunity to become the CEO of Reach ...