Literacy OUTREACH
ROOM TO READ believes World Change Starts with Educated Children®, Room to Read is creating a world free from illiteracy and gender inequality. We are achieving this goal by helping children in historically low-income communities develop literacy skills and a habit of reading, and by supporting girls as they build skills to succeed in school and negotiate key life decisions.
The Children’s Book Project
gives books to children who need them for equity in literacy, learning, and life.
They aim to create a more socially just world by providing books for free to under-resourced children. The Children’s Book Project is committed to closing the opportunity gap and lifting up our community by raising readers.
BURLINGAME Public Library Teen Blog Bulingamereads Youth Leaders in LIT Founder, Marycora Pattison is on the team that maintains this Instagram blog which is filled with weekly book reviews by teens for teens! Follow them on IG @burlingamereads
LITERATURE CONNECTS
David Nihill, Marycora Pattison, Fintan O'Toole and Catriona Crowe at the Consulate General of Ireland in San Francisco Hinterland West reception. 2022
One of Ireland's most respected and leading public intellectuals, Fintan O'Toole presenting on his latest work, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
Catherine Flynn is an Associate Professor in the English Department at UC Berkeley and Director of Irish Studies. She is one of the world’s leading Joycean scholars, and spoke on her new centenary edition of Ulysses from Cambridge University Press.
CLOSING THE LITERACY GAP
YLIL & SI Raise $1500 for Literacy Youth Leaders in LIT: Advocates for Literature & Literacy led a two day fundraiser to bring awareness to closing the literacy gap. St. Ignatius College Preparatory Students raised $1500 which was donated to the Children’s Book Project in San Francisco to aid in their mission to provide books to the underserved in the Bay Area. VIDEO HERE
It’s ‘Alarming’: Children Are Severely Behind in Reading
March 8, 2022 The fallout from the pandemic is just being felt. “We’re in new territory,” educators say.Children are behind, and teachers trained in phonics, like Garensha John, are in short supply. Ms. John leads a first-grade class at Capital Preparatory Harbor Lower School in Bridgeport, Conn.Credit...Christopher Capozziel
Children's Book Project: Our Hero of the Week: As we celebrate the countless contributions of women and girls to society during Women's History Month, we call out Marycora, who pre-sorted and delivered 783 beautiful books collected in the recent St. Ignatius HS #BookDrive
Thank you, Marycora, @siyouthlit, and the St. Ignatius HS community, for your support of our mission to give books to children
PHILANTHROPY AT WORK
VOLUNTEER THIS SUMMER
SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY Volunteer Opportunities
SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY Volunteer Opportunities
SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY Volunteer Opportunities
Summer Youth Volunteers is a program for rising 8th-12 graders to support Summer Stride--the Library's all-ages learning program--for 10 hours or more during June, July, and August.
Summer Stride kicked off June 1, and applications for Summer Youth Volunteers opened in late April. Not all locations were able to participate this year, and most locations are currently full.
Here are the locations still currently accepting applications (last updated June 5, 2023 (9:36 AM)
ORGANIZE A BOOK DRIVE
SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY Volunteer Opportunities
SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY Volunteer Opportunities
The Children's Book Project of San Francisco is always in need of books to provide to underserved Bay Area children! You could make a difference by organizing a SUMMER BOOK DRIVE! People are happy to help children who need books by donating new books and like-new books that their family have outgrown. The CBP is grateful for members of the community, like you, that are willing to lead a book drive that could potentially bring in anywhere from 50 to 5,000 children’s books. The CBP distributes over 10,000 free books every month to children who need them, so your drive is crucial to fulfilling their mission!
PUBLICATIONS
FREE LITERACY RESOURCES
SIMONTEEN
AMERICANLITERATURE.COM
ROOM TO READ
SIMONREADS is Simon & Schuster Publishing House FREE resource for Young Adult/ Teen readers. Full teen novels and video tidbits to engage with a YA audience.
ROOM TO READ
AMERICANLITERATURE.COM
ROOM TO READ
Room to Read purchases millions of children’s books to distribute around the world and our free online digital library, LiteracyCloud.org, hosts thousands of titles in 33+ languages, providing primary school students with the resources and guidance they need to build a strong foundation in literacy.
AMERICANLITERATURE.COM
AMERICANLITERATURE.COM
AMERICANLITERATURE.COM
A comprehensive digital library of world literature from Frederick Douglass to Oscar Wilde.