Your gift of $30 dollars allows us to send packages of two donated books from our library to ten prisoners - a total of twenty books. Anecdotal evidence shows that books in prison are read by up to 25 people before the end of their useful life. So for just $30 you can help nearly 500 prisoners!

Your gift will provide new learning opportunities to impoverished children. This educational project helps train teachers in new teaching methods so they can educate children, especially girls, in poor areas of the Congo. Among other goals, this project distributes textbooks; chalk and blackboard paint, and gives schools the tools and materials they need to refurbish old school buildings. The education plan encourages girls to attend...

Your gift will bring 40 children brand new appealing and age-appropriate books to take home and keep.

Your gift will provide 25 children in an afterschool program with brand new books.

This gift will provide 10 at-risk preschoolers with a highly trained Jumpstart Corps member mentor for one full semester; each Corps members will be paired one-to-one with the same child for the duration of the program. While the program runs for one full school year, you can be a part of supporting an entire semester of this work. The results speak for themselves: children who...

Your gift will provide one full semester of one-to-one mentoring by a trained Jumpstart Corps member and an at-risk preschool child. For over a decade we’ve been bringing at-risk preschool children and caring adults together. Jumpstart fosters relationships that focus on building literacy, in combination with social and emotional readiness. A one-to-one setting ensures that education becomes the completely transformational experience it was meant to...

Your gift will provide one year of a national newspaper subscription for a library in rural Nepal. Join READ Global in its quest to change the world—one country, one village, one individual at a time. Your donation will bring national and international news to remote rural communities in Nepal. The newspapers will be delivered to one of the self-supporting library community centers in the READ...

Your gift of 200 new books will strengthen the reading ability of a classroom of children in need.

Your gift will put brand new books directly in the backpacks of 20 preschoolers in need for them to take home.

Your gift will put 20 brand new books in the home of a child in need.

Join READ Global in its quest to change the world—one country, one village, one individual at a time. Your contribution will outfit one of READ Global’s library community centers with a technology hub that includes three computers and basic software for word processing, spreadsheets and bookkeeping. Your gift of a technology center for a rural Nepal READ library will be provided by READ Global.

Trained on the basics of child development, including techniques for reading with children, and conflict resolution, Jumpstart volunteers work together in teams to implement a curriculum with young children twice a week for the entire school year. Each Jumpstart Corps member is paired one-to-one with an at-risk preschooler to ensure individualized attention. As part of their lessons with children each week, teams utilize a host...

Join READ Global in its quest to change the world—one country, one village, one individual at a time. READ’s self-supporting library community centers each include a Children’s Section with books, educational toys and furnishings designed just for the younger set. Your donation will help to stock the shelves with new books written just for children. Your gift of children’s books will be provided by READ...

Chosen by researchers and curriculum experts as rich, high-quality texts that will support children’s development of language and literacy skills, the books provided with your donation also touch on issues familiar to every child, such as the arrival of a new baby brother or sister, the excitement of experiencing new places and meeting new people, and the fun of spending time with friends! This basket...

Early literacy strategies that help parents support their child’s language development, and books for each child.

We like to bring books to our workshops as a reward to youth who show interest in writing or are scared to write because their literacy levels are low. Your gift will help The Beat Within distribute books on topics appropriate for young adults.