OUR LITERACY PARTNERS

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

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

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.

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 (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

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.

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 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, 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.

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, 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

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.

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

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

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.

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.