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The nonprofit organization was founded in 1989 [1] by Sharon Darling as the National Center for Family Literacy. [2]The mission of the NCFL is "to eradicate poverty through educational solutions" and resources that "empower" families. [1]
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The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy is a non-profit organization, headquartered in Washington D.C., supporting literacy as fundamental to the success of both families and the U.S. economy. The foundation promotes access to resources to build a stronger, more equitable America through literacy. [1]
Reading Is Fundamental, Inc. (RIF) is the oldest and largest non-profit children's literacy organization in the United States.RIF provides books (print and digital) and reading resources to children nationwide with supporting literacy resources for educators, families, and community volunteers.
In partnership with the Barbara Bush Foundation, The National Center for Families Learning and Reading Is Fundamental, the Dollar General Literacy Foundation has been investing in literacy and ...
The National Literacy Act of 1991 [4] and the results of the National Adult Literacy Survey of 1993, [5] which found that one in every four adults lacked basic literacy skills, also brought attention to the issue of low adult literacy rates in the U.S. The national recognition of a need for adult literacy initiatives helped it earn funding for ...
Gov. Bill Lee, from left, and former Gov. Bill Haslam laugh at a joke told by former Gov. Phil Bredesen at the Governor’s Early Literacy Foundation 20th anniversary celebration at the Country ...
The Literacy Myth: Literacy and Social Structure in the Nineteenth Century City (Academic Press, 1979). Graff, Harvey J. ed. Literacy and social development in the West: A reader (Cambridge UP, 1981), scholarly studies of many countries; Guzzetti, Barbara, ed. Literacy in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Theory, and Practice (ABC-CLIO, 2002)