- Reading Is Fundamental (3)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Organizations/Reading_Is_Fundamental
- First Book
A national nonprofit organization with a single mission: to give disadvantaged children the opportunity to read and own their first new books.
www.firstbook.org
- National Institute for Literacy@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Independent/National_Institute_for_Literacy
- Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Literacy program providing a book a month for registered preschoolers.
www.imaginationlibrary.com
- Ezra Jack Keats Foundation
Includes information about the author, his characters, and the foundation's efforts to promote children's literacy.
www.ezra-jack-keats.org
- Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, The
Dedicated to establishing literacy as a value in every family in America.
www.barbarabushfoundation.com
- Pratham
Network of non-government organizations dedicated to promoting primary education for disadvantaged children.
www.pratham.org
- Read In Foundation, Inc.
Promotes global literacy and the use of telecommunications technology in education. Sponsors an annual project connecting authors and kids through chat rooms.
www.readin.org
- BookPALS
All-volunteer literacy program in which professional actors visit public elementary schools in local neighborhoods to read aloud to children every week.
www.bookpals.net
- National Right to Read Foundation (NRRF)
Seeks to eliminate illiteracy through promotion of phonics instruction.
www.nrrf.org
- Beginning With Books
Focuses on increasing the number of children who are lifelong readers through programs for low-income families.
www.beginningwithbooks.org
- California Literacy
Statewide nonprofit organization providing leadership to new and existing literacy programs and their students, through training, resources, consultation and advocacy.
www.caliteracy.org
- National Jewish Coalition for Literacy
Coalition of national Jewish agencies and organizations committed to help all america's children learn to read by the end of 3rd grade. NJCL's affiliates mobilize and train volunteer tutors who offer one-on-one help in public schools.
www.njcl.net
- Motheread
Nonprofit organization offering training, literacy clsses, curriculum development, and projects.
www.motheread.org
- Foundation for California Early Literacy Learning
Staff development program designed to help preK - 6 teachers improve their teaching of reading and writing.
www.cell-exll.com
- Laubach Literacy New Brunswick
Volunteer organization offering confidential, free literacy training.
www.nald.ca/llnb.htm
- Exercise the Right to Read
Organization raising funds to provide books for school libraries and disadvantaged children through marathon running.
www.exercisetherighttoread.org
- Children's Literature for Children
Nonprofit educational organization dedicated to teaching children to read books within a sequential, structured school program.
www.childrensliterature.org/home.html
- If I Can Read, I Can Do Anything
National reading and literacy club for Native American children.
www.gslis.utexas.edu/~ifican
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