Mission, Vision & Values
Values 🔑
Excellence 🎖 dedication to being the best one can be
Security🛡- always being able to acquire knowledge and navigate the world
Community 🏠 - enhancing mutually beneficial relationships
Anticipatory Joy 😸 - a positive attitude and orientation to the future
Love ❤️ - committed action for the well-being of others
Mission & Vision 👀
Read It and Leave It promotes children’s literacy in Harlem by providing positive reading experiences and distributing culturally conscious books to children. Through this program children acquire home libraries, inspiring a better relationship with books and literacy.
Under-served children are empowered to have a stronger life through an appreciation and love of knowledge through reading.
Richard Allington 2010
“The achievement gap that exists between low-income and high-income children can be narrowed or even closed simply by giving books to low-income kids. Just a dozen books selected by the child, at a total cost of about $50, can achieve the same improvements in school performance as $3,000 worth of summer school.”
More than 80% of all children who interface with the juvenile court system are considered functionally illiterate with more than 50% of all prisoners being functionally illiterate as well.
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For every $1 we receive, .75 cents is applied directly to programming and .25 cents supports programming via administrative/overhead.