- International Book Project, Inc.
Promotes global friendship and world literacy through book distribution projects.
www.intlbookproject.org
- National Center For Family Literacy (NCFL)
Works with educators and community builders through an array of services to design and sustain literacy programs that meet the most urgent educational needs of disadvantaged families.
www.famlit.org
- Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education (SCALE)
SCALE supports campus-based literacy programs locally, statewide, and nationally through their Literacy Action Networks. In these programs, college students serve as literacy tutors or teachers in their community.
www.readwriteact.org
- National Literacy Trust UK
Independent charity dedicated to building a literate nation.
www.literacytrust.org.uk
- Experience Corps
Offering adventures in service for Americans over 55, who serve as tutors and mentors to children in urban public schools and after-school programs, where they help teach children to read and develop the confidence and skills to succeed in school and in life.
www.experiencecorps.org
- Movement for Canadian Literacy
National organization representing literacy coalitions, organizations, and individuals from every province and territory.
www.literacy.ca
- I.T.A. Foundation
Promotes literacy by use of the Initial Teaching Alphabet.
www.itafoundation.org
- Room To Read
Builds libraries and schools and provides scholarships to underprivileged children in Cambodia, India, Nepal, and Vietnam.
www.roomtoread.org
- Compassion Beyond Borders
Supports schools in India and Afghanistan, provides scholarships to students in Mexico, Guatemala, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and to Tibetan refugees, finances women's literacy training in Nepal, Afghanistan, and Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan, supports health clinics, and more.
www.compassionbb.org
- Centre for Language and Literacy
Provides a focus for the research, professional development, and curriculum development activities of staff in the Faculty of Education.
www.education.uts.edu.au/centres/cll
- Books for Africa
Registered nonprofit charity that ships donated books and PCs to libraries in Ghana.
www.uakron.edu/src/DataServ/SocServ/Summit/Books_for_Africa.html
- ArtsLiteracy Project (ArtsLit)
Dedicated to developing the literacy of youth through the performing and visual arts. Based in the Education Department at Brown University, ArtsLit gathers an international community of artists, teachers, youth, college students, and professors with the goal of collaboratively creating innovative approaches to literacy development through the arts.
www.artslit.org
- National Even Start Association
Provides a national voice for Even Start family literacy programs, school-community partnerships that help break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy by integrating early childhood education, adult literacy or adult basic education, and parenting education into a unified family literacy program.
www.evenstart.org
- American Literacy Council
Provides resources and assistance to persons and organizations involved in promoting literacy in the United States.
www.americanliteracy.com
- Books of Hope
Books created specifically to meet the healthcare education needs of Africa's rural and disadvantaged communities as a means of overcoming low levels of literacy.
www.booksofhope.com
- Verizon Reads
Umbrella organization for Verizon's national literacy platform.
www.lifesplaybook.com
- Global Literacy Project
Collecting, sorting, shipping, and distributing books for use in Africa and the Caribbean.
www.glpinc.org
- National Institute for Literacy (3)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Organizations/National_Institute_for_Literacy
- ASHA@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Education/Literacy
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