Improving Education manages a multi-school Networked Improvement Community through which teachers, administrators, and community members work together to redesign instruction and support for students to improve early literacy outcomes in PreK through second grade classrooms. Achieving reading proficiency by third grade is crucial to the future success of a student’s academic career, while 60 percent of low-income families report having fewer than ten books in the home. In speaking with parents across the city, Improving Education staff identified issues with access to books, inconsistencies of parenting routines, and a general lack of resources to support their child’s healthy growth. In response, Improving Education created Bedtime in a Box, which strives to provide not only the needed books, but to link reading to a bedtime routine that happens every night, prompting multiple positive effects on health and education. This grant provided working capital to expand supply and distribution of bedtime boxes.