Let’s Get Children Reading
A Worldreader community funding opportunity to get children reading in US communities
Worldreader is pleased to announce the Let’s Get Children Reading Grant recipients
Worldreader has an ambitious goal of getting 75,000 children ages 3-12 reading over the next two years to improve reading comprehension and social-emotional learning. To reach this goal, the Let’s Get Children Reading Grant was opened in March 2023 to US organizations working to solve the learning crisis by promoting family reading and building the reading confidence of parents and caregivers to support their child’s learning.
With Worldreader’s free digital reading experience, BookSmart, children and their caregivers have the required tools to build their reading skills through high-quality books, activities that reinforce reading skills in fun and interactive ways, and celebrations of their success.
Together we can get children and their families reading at least 25 books a year
Grantees join a community of organizations working together to build a world of readers. The selected organizations will receive a total of nearly $170,000 in funding, which will help them implement reading programs focused on a range of areas, including improving access to bilingual reading materials, building reading comprehension and emotional intelligence, and fostering a love of reading among children.
Grantees will have access to Worldreader’s complete BookSmart reading experience as a tool to promote reading in and out of school.
Awarded organizations
One-year seed grants valued between $3,500 and $7,500 have been awarded to the following 27 organizations. The Let’s Get Children Reading Grant is made possible by generous corporate funding granted to Worldreader with the goal of engaging children and their families in reading.
Worldreader will award one-year seed grants to the following organizations:
- Atlanta Habitat for Humanity
- Baker-Zachary Alumnae – Delta Sigma Theta
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago
- Boys & Girls Club of Elgin
- Burst Into Books
- Cahokia Unit School District #187
- Centennial Academy
- Chicago HOPES for Kids
- East Nashville Hope Exchange
- Ethos Classical
- Florida Alliance of Children’s Councils and Trusts (FACCT)
- GEEARS: Georgia Early Education Alliance for Ready Students
- Georgia Head Start Association
- Genoa Elementary
- HeartBound Ministries
- Kids Above All
- LaAmistad
- LaundryCares Foundation
- New Song Community Learning Center/New Song Academy #322
- Play Smart Literacy
- SGA Youth & Family Services
- SPAN Parent Advocacy Network
- The Black Book Project
- The Literacy Cooperative
- Tutoring Chicago
- VOCEL
- West Harvey-Dixmoor District 147
To learn more about Worldreader and how your organization can use BookSmart to support family reading contact us.
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