Partner Organizations

Scholastic Literacy Partnerships is proud to have forged partnerships with many organizations promoting children’s literacy across the country.  We’re proud of the work their doing sharing the gift of books.  From parent education programs to employee volunteer programs, Scholastic Literacy Partnerships salutes the great work of these organizations.

	The mission of Families in Schools is to involve parents in the education of their children as skillful, knowledgeable, and effective partners, capable of ensuring that they receive the quality of education to which they are entitled and must have in order to achieve life long success.
	Motheread, Inc., a private, non-profit literacy development organization established in 1987, works throughout the United States to integrate literature-based curriculum and training into literacy, early childhood education, and family support programs.
	The National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) is recognized worldwide as the leader in family literacy development. NCFL works to ensure that all families at the lowest ends of the literacy and economic continuum have opportunities to expand their education and improve their economic and social well-being through quality literacy programs.
	The Parent-Child Home Program is a nationally-replicated, 40-year-old, early literacy home-visiting program that helps families facing social and economic obstacles prepare their children to enter school ready to learn. The research-proven model bridges the ‘preparation gap’ by encouraging quality parent-child interaction using books and toys.
	Parents as Teachers is a nonprofit organization that invests in children from the beginning by helping all parents realize the important role they play in their child's development. Parents as Teachers offers parents customized child development information throughout pregnancy until their child enters kindergarten to ensure each child is developing on track and ready to learn. For more, visit
	Raising Readers, a health and literacy program funded by the private Maine Libra Foundation, is designed to reach Maine children by taking advantage of the strong relationship between parents, children, and their health care providers.  Each newborn in Maine receives a canvas bag with two new hardcover books, and another new hardcover book at each regularly scheduled well child visit through age 5. Since its inception in 2000, Raising Readers has touched over 100,000 Maine children with more than 600,000 books through almost 400 medical practices and hospitals statewide.
	Wachovia Corporation, a financial services company headquartered in Charlotte, NC, developed Reading First® in 1997. Every year, Wachovia employees read to children in primary education classrooms once a week for 20 weeks, then donate the books to the classrooms. Since its inception, Reading First®  has established over 12,000 partnerships with local elementary school classrooms. In partnership with Scholastic Inc., we donated almost 90,000 books to classroom libraries in 2004.