TOPIC: LITERACY (20)
AARP Experience Corps
http://www.aarp.org/experience-corpsAARP Experience Corps, an award-winning national program, engages people 50-plus in meeting their community's greatest challenges. Two thousand AARP Experience Corps volunteer members tutor and mentor in 19 cities across the country, providing literacy coaching, homework help, consistent role models and committed, caring attention
Barbershop Books
https://barbershopbooks.orgBarbershop Books is a community-based literacy program that creates child-friendly reading spaces in barbershops for boys ages 4-8. It leverages the cultural significance of barbershops in Black communities to help black boys identify as readers. This innovative approach connects black men and families to black boys’ early reading experiences. It also improves boys’ access to culturally relevant, age appropriate, and gender responsive children’s books, while increasing the amount of time boys read for fun.
Better World Books
http://www.betterworldbooks.comBetter World Books uses the power of business to change the world. We collect and sell books online to donate books and fund literacy initiatives worldwide. With more than 8 million new and used titles in stock, we’re a self-sustaining, triple-bottom-line company that creates social, economic and environmental value for all our stakeholders.
BookMentors
http://www.bookmentors.orgBookMentors is a nonprofit that connects teachers and students who need books with donors who want to give books. BookMentors is also a community of readers, writers, teachers, and publishers interested in sharing information about children's and young adult literature.
Books With No Bounds
http://bookswithnobounds.comBooks With No Bounds distributes books and other learning tools to students of all ages and strives to promote literacy, Aboriginal cultural sensitivity, and friendship… one book at a time.
Call Me Ishmael
http://callmeishmael.comCall Me Ishmael is a novel way to celebrate books and life by leaving a voicemail about a book you love and a story you’ve lived.
Everybody Wins!
http://everybodywins.orgToday, EVERYBODY WINS! affiliates are helping bridge the literacy gap for more than 9,200 public school students across the country. Our goal is to reach 100,000. The EVERYBODY WINS! equation is simple – one mentor, one child, one book at a time – but has a profound impact
First Book
http://www.firstbook.orgFirst Book provides access to new books for children in need. To date, First Book has distributed more than 90 million books and educational resources to programs and schools serving children from low-income families throughout the United States and Canada. First Book is transforming the lives of children in need and elevating the quality of education by making new, high-quality books available on an ongoing basis. First Book is uniquely positioned to become a leader in providing digital resources so that children in need don’t miss out.
InfiniScroll
http://www.curioushat.com/infiniscrollInfiniScroll is the open-ended storytelling tool for curious minds. The app breaks the rules of linear storytelling by creating a never ending magical visual exploration of the wonderful drawings by Francesco Chiacchio.
Jumpstart
http://www.jstart.orgJumpstart is a national early education organization that recruits and trains college students and community Corps members to serve preschool children in low-income neighborhoods. Our proven curriculum helps children develop the language and literacy skills they need to be ready for school, setting them on a path to close the achievement gap before it is too late.
Library For All
http://www.libraryforall.orgLibrary For All is a nonprofit that exists to unlock knowledge to those without access to books in developing countries, at a much lower cost than building physical libraries. Our Library platform delivers ebooks to low-cost devices such as tablets, mobile phones, and PCs, and is accessible in low-bandwidth environments via mobile phone networks. The Library provides access to educational content that is culturally relevant and available in local and international languages. Library For All aims to strengthen the educational ecosystem across the developing world, thus improving global literacy and global development initiatives.
Little Free Library
http://littlefreelibrary.orgIn its most basic form, a Little Free Library is a box full of books where anyone may stop by and pick up a book (or two) and bring back another book to share. You can, too!
Plain Ink
Plain Ink is a social enterprise harnessing the power of books, media and storytelling to support communities around the world to gain the practical skills, tools and insights needed to build a sustainable future.
We do this by producing and distributing culturally appropriate and stimulating literacy and learning materials, while also meaningfully engaging individuals, communities, local organisations and governments to actively contribute to shaping a better future. We use the money that we raise through our publishing activities in Italy to spark new educational activities in India and Afghanistan.
Reading Hamlets
http://www.readinghamlets.orgReading Hamlets is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization led by women, dedicated to ending the cycle of poverty through literacy, by providing books to children, with a special emphasis on girls, living in low income areas in rural Nigeria.
ReLIT NY
http://www.relitny.orgReLIT NY is a free book donation and reading program that collects your unwanted books and recycles them back to the public. You'll see us outside subway stations every month handing out hundreds of free books to anyone who wants a good read.
