Our Literacy Partners

Books For Africa’s simple goal is to end the book famine in Africa, serving as the largest shipper of donated textbooks and library books to the African continent, and has shipped over 40 million books since 1988. These books are now available in the libraries and school classrooms of rural neighborhoods, and in the hands of children who have never even held a book before.

The National Center for Family Literacy’s mission is to create a literate nation by leveraging the power of the family. Through groundbreaking initiatives, the NCFL fuels life improvement for the nation’s most disadvantaged children and parents. More than one million families throughout the country have made positive educational and economic gains as a result of the NCFL’s work, which includes training more than 150,000 teachers and thousands of other volunteers.

Room to Read has developed a holistic, multi-pronged approach to help children in the developing world to give the lifelong gift of education. Room to Read has helped to build schools, bilingual libraries, and computer labs, publish local language books, and fund long-term girls’ scholarships. Since its inception in 2000, Room to Read has impacted the lives of over 1.7 million children.

Orange County School of the Arts (OCSA) is an award-winning academic institution that provides a creative, challenging, and nurturing environment that offers bright and talented students unparalleled preparation for higher education and a profession in the arts. Founded in 1987, OCSA has grown from a small after-school arts program into one of the premier arts schools in the nation. This innovative public charter school embraces and encourages artistic creativity and academic excellence, and produces lifelong learners who matriculate to top-tier colleges, universities, and conservatory programs.

World Vision has a vision for every child to be regarded as a precious gift to the world – and to have access to education and learning in order to attain functional levels of literacy, numeracy, and essential life skills. When children can read, they can better advocate for their rights and help provide for their families. World Vision Zambia has for the past thirty-five years contributed to increasing access to quality education for vulnerable children within the 40 Area Development Programs (ADPs) spread across all the ten provinces of Zambia. Specifically, more than 100 classroom blocks have been constructed, over 3,000 desks have been supplied to schools, over 40,000 academic course books and readers have been supplied reaching approximately 100,000 registered children.