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READAmerica is a nonprofit reading advocacy foundation. Believing that the family is any nation's most powerful education institution, READAmerica's sole purpose is to encourage reading in the families of America. "At the moment a parent starts reading to a child there is a victory."
Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) is the nation's oldest children's literacy organization, currently serving more than 3.7 million children at 5,000 sites in all 50 states and the U.S. territories. RIF's grass-roots network of 202,000 volunteers is a key ingredient in developing the literacy of young people. RIF ensures that children have books in the home, provides activities to stimulate reading interest, encourages reading for pleasure, develops intergenerational programs to make books and reading an important focus of family life, and makes a variety of publications available to educators, families, and others interested in encouraging children to read and learn.
The Reading Recovery Council of North America (RRCNA), a nonprofit association of trainers, administrators, teacher leaders, and teachers, works to enable all children to achieve early literacy success. RRCNA supports dissemination of Reading Recovery and Desubriendo La Lectura (Reading Recovery in Spanish), a research-based early intervention program that delivers accelerated instruction for children who experience difficulty in their first year of reading. RRCNA forms wide-ranging partnerships to enhance collaborative research, professional development, and the expansion of literacy education. RRCNA members span all tiers of education and the community throughout 48 U.S. states, Department of Defense Dependent Schools in Europe and Asia, and five Canadian provinces.
The Reading Foundation is a nonprofit corporation that encourages parental accountability in literacy by creating pervasive community expectations that parents read 20 minutes a day with their child from birth through third grade and school accountability that ensures 90 percent of children read at least at the third grade level by the end of the third grade.
The organization supports partnerships with associated school districts through a seven-year media campaign, creation of grass roots reading volunteer groups in each community to support the parent and school accountability goals, and clearinghouse activities that coordinate national, (READ*WRITE*NOW!), state, and local resources.
For more than 125 years, Ringling and Barnum & Bailey Circus has worked not only to entertain America's children but also to educate them. Realizing the unique ability of the circus to tap into a child's imagination, the Educational Services Department has created a multifaceted program for use in grades K-3. Teaching resource packets are offered free of charge, and additional resources are made available for purchase. The Educational Services Department also offers workshop seminars designed to teach educators how to incorporate the theme of circus across the entire curriculum.
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