OUR LITERACY PARTNERS

We share with our Partners the vision of literacy development as a key component to empowering youth and strengthening the community. We are proud of the incredible efforts our Partners have made in promoting literacy and transforming their communities into text-rich environments.

  • All Stars – Sponsor a Class
    All Stars – Sponsor a Class

    All Stars – Sponsor a Class

    All Stars Helping Kids, founded by Hall of Famer Ronnie Lott, pools the resources of athletes, corporations, and individuals to support its mission of promoting a safe, healthy, and rigorous learning environment for disadvantaged kids in low-income communities. Through the Sponsor a Class program, sponsors are matched with classrooms to provide students with high-quality books for their home library and reading incentives. All Stars Helping Kids and Scholastic are working to ensure that each child has the opportunity to succeed in life by providing them with the most basic foundation for learning: books.

  • The Anquan Boldin Foundation
    The Anquan Boldin Foundation

    The Anquan Boldin Foundation

    Established in 2004, The Anquan Boldin Foundation is dedicated to expanding the educational and life opportunities of underprivileged children. The Anquan Boldin foundation conducts the eight week Q81 Summer Enrichment Program, which is designed to help students stay on track academically over the summer months. The Anquan Boldin Foundation has partnered with Scholastic to distribute books to deserving schools, as well as books for children in underserved communities.

  • BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY
    Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy

    BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY

    More than 25 years ago, Mrs. Barbara Bush founded the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy. Then First Lady, she started the nonprofit with a goal to empower families through literacy. The mission of the Barbara Bush Foundation is to advocate for and establish literacy as a value in every home.

  • Campaign for Grade Level Reading
    Campaign for Grade Level Reading

    Campaign for Grade Level Reading

    The Campaign for Grade Level Reading is a collaborative effort by foundations, nonprofit partners, business leaders, government agencies, and communities across the nation. Their goal is to ensure that more children in low-income families succeed in school and graduate prepared for college, a career, and active citizenship. The Campaign focuses on an important predictor of school success and high school graduation: grade-level reading by the end of third grade.

  • Families in Schools
    Families in Schools

    Families in Schools

    Families In Schools (FIS) recognizes the value of strong family-school partnerships in supporting student achievement. As such, the mission of FIS is to involve parents and communities in their children’s education to achieve lifelong success. We provide programs and professional development that foster authentic parent engagement by building the skills, knowledge, and confidence of both parents and staff on how to work together. FIS targets low-income and underserved communities, as access to quality education continues to be the pathway out of poverty and toward the American dream.

  • Kiwanis
    Kiwanis

    Kiwanis

    Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to improving the world one child and one community at a time. Kiwanis members stage nearly 150,000 service projects, devote more than 6 million hours of service and raise nearly $100 million every year for communities, families and projects. Scholastic has partnered with Kiwanis to create The Reading Oasis, which establishes designated reading rooms for schools in need.

  • The National Center for Family Learning
    The National Center for
    Family Learning

    The National Center for Family Learning

    The National Center for Family Learning (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.

  • National Summer Learning Association
    National Summer Learning Association

    National Summer Learning Association

    The National Summer Learning Association (NSLA) is the only national nonprofit focused on closing the achievement gap by increasing summer learning opportunities for all youth. NSLA offers expertise and support for programs, communities, and advocates for summer learning as a solution for equity and excellence in education. NSLA’s vision is that all children and youth have access to high-quality summer learning experiences to help them succeed in college, career and life.

  • NBA Read to Achieve
    NBA Read to Achieve

    NBA Read to Achieve

    Read to Achieve is a year-round, league-wide initiative supported by all NBA, WNBA, and NBDL teams, promoting the value of reading and on-line literacy. It is the most extensive educational outreach initiative in the history of professional sports. The program makes an annual donation of 200,000 books through a variety of reading events and book fairs, develops essay contests and online programs, and has created reading and learning centers throughout North America. Scholastic has recently released four NBA-themed titles to coincide with NBA Reading Month and has provided thousands of books for team bookmobiles and programs.

  • The Parent-Child Home Program
    The Parent-Child Home
    Program

    The Parent-Child Home Program

    The Parent-Child Home Program (PCHP) model, developed in 1965, is designed to build school readiness where it starts: the home. The PCHP’s nationwide network of program sites provides low-income families with the necessary skills and tools to ensure their children achieve their greatest potential in school and in life. The National Center assists underserved communities in replicating and expanding PCHP’s proven school readiness program that builds early parent-child verbal interaction and learning at home.

  • Parents as Teachers
    Parents as Teachers

    Parents as Teachers

    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.

  • Raising Readers
    Raising Readers

    Raising Readers

    Raising Readers, a health and literacy program funded by the 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 200,000 Maine children with more than 2.3 million books given at birth and well-child visits through almost 400 medical practices and hospitals statewide.

  • Raising a Reader
    Raising a Reader

    Raising a Reader

    Raising a Reader is a national nonprofit organization offering local agencies an evidence-based early literacy and parent engagement program that has demonstrated it can improve the reading readiness skills of children birth to age eight. By equipping children with necessary elements for lifetime success—especially literacy—children will enter school with a love of books and will be motivated and ready to learn.

  • Reach Out and Read
    Reach Out and Read

    Reach Out and Read

    Reach Out and Read gives young children a foundation for success by incorporating books into pediatric care and encouraging families to read aloud together. Doctors, nurse practitioners, and other medical professionals incorporate Reach Out and Read's evidence-based, three-part model into regular pediatric checkups:

    • Trained doctors and nurses speak with parents about the importance of reading aloud, starting in infancy.

    • At each regular checkup from 6 months through 5 years of age, the child receives a new book to take home.

    • Many Reach Out and Read program sites create literacy-rich environments that include gently-used books for waiting room use and/or volunteer readers to model for parents the techniques of reading aloud to young children.

    The program serves nearly 4.5 million children and their families across the nation, with a special emphasis on serving those in low-income communities.

  • Reading is Fundamental
    Reading is Fundamental

    Reading is Fundamental

    Reading Is Fundamental, Inc. (RIF), founded in 1966, motivates children to read by working with them, their parents, and community members to make reading a fun and beneficial part of everyday life. RIF’s highest priority is reaching underserved children from birth to age 8. Through community volunteers in every state and U.S. territory, RIF provides 4.5 million children with 15 million new, free books and literacy resources each year.

  • Toys for Tots
    Toys for Tots

    Toys for Tots

    The Toys for Tots Literacy Program offers our nation’s most economically disadvantaged children the ability to compete academically and succeed in life by providing them direct access to resources that will enhance their ability to read and communicate effectively. Together with Scholastic, the Toys for Tots Literacy Program extends the Toys for Tots mission of delivering hope by providing children in need with the gift of a book. The program delivers thousands of books to hundreds of thousands of less fortunate children. The Toys for Tots Literacy Program benefits not only local children in need, but also the libraries, schools, and existing programs that serve them.

  • Tuck's R.U.S.H. for Literacy
    Tuck's R.U.S.H. for Literacy

    Tuck's R.U.S.H. for Literacy

    Lauran and Justin Tuck founded Tuck’s R.U.S.H for Literacy to encourage children to READ, UNDERSTAND, SUCCEED and HOPE. Started in 2008, Tuck’s R.U.S.H. for Literacy has been committed to raising funds to donate books and other reading materials to support children in New York City and Central Alabama communities. R.U.S.H. for Literacy, together with Scholastic, aims to increase the number of books read per student during the school year and increase the number of books distributed to deserving students in New York and Alabama. By partnering with Scholastic, it is the Tucks’ hope that this initiative will encourage children to embrace literacy.

  • United Way
    United Way

    United Way

    United Way makes sure children and youth can start school ready to succeed, become proficient readers at a young age, stay on track in middle school, earn their high school diploma, and pursue a higher education. The Born Learning Campaign puts easy-to-understand, research-driven resources into the hands of families, caregivers, community leaders and policymakers, including:

    • Educational materials and products that make it simple and easy to understand child development and use “everyday moments” to help children start school ready to succeed

    • Public awareness and mobilization strategies and tools that support and accelerate a community’s early learning goals

  • Wells Fargo –  Reading First
    Wells Fargo –  Reading First

    Wells Fargo –  Reading First

    Since 1997, Scholastic has partnered with Wachovia Corporation—now Wells Fargo—to distribute books to children via its Reading First Program. Every year, Wells Fargo 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.

  • W.I.C - Women, Infants and Children
    W.I.C. Women, Infants and Children

    W.I.C. Women, Infants and Children

    The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides federal grants to states for supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age five who are found to be at nutritional risk.

  • YMCA
    YMCA

    YMCA

    The YMCA has created pilot programs with the aim of closing the academic achievement gap. These programs improve students’ educational readiness, engagement, and outcomes, while also helping them grow emotionally and physically. Programs include Early Learning Readiness, Summer Learning Loss Prevention, Afterschool, and Power Scholars Academy™. The YMCA also supports literacy development through Y Roads Literacy Centers, which assist youth between the ages of 16 and 24 who lack the reading, writing and/or math skills needed to enroll in a High School Equivalency (HSE, formerly GED) Tests Preparation Program.

  • YWCA - STEM/TechGYRLS Programs
    YWCA

    YWCA

    YWCA USA is on a mission to eliminate racism, empower women, stand up for social justice, help families, and strengthen communities.

    Established in 1858, they are one of the oldest and largest women's organizations in the nation, serving over 2 million women, girls, and their families as a voice for women's issues. They promote solutions to improve the lives of women, girls and people of color across the country.