We are excited to announce the author lineup for our 2024 New York Celebration of Reading! Join Brooke Shields, Jessamine Chan, and Kirsten Miller along with special guests Lauren Bush Lauren, Abigail Quammen, and Ali Velshi as we celebrate reading and raise support for our nationwide literacy programming. Learn more about the event here: https://lnkd.in/ezJXKPBH • • • Macmillan Simon & Schuster HarperCollins Publishers FEED Projects MSNBC #newyork #newyorkcity #nyc #newyorkevents #nycevents #fundraising #nycgala
Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy
Philanthropy
Washington, D.C. 3,300 followers
"Literacy is everybody's business. Period." — First Lady Barbara Bush
About us
Over the past 30 years, the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy has raised and provided more than $110 million in support to create or expand adult and family literacy programs in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Adult literacy is a sweeping, silent crisis in our country. Today, there are tens of millions of American adults who cannot fill out a job application, read to their child, understand simple medication labels, or use a ballot to vote. This crisis is largely ignored, historically underfunded, and woefully under-researched, despite being one of the great solvable problems of our time. Barbara Bush chose literacy as her life’s work based on a simple, but powerful belief: “If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we would be that much closer to solving so many of the problems plaguing our society.” The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy holds ready solutions with high impact outcomes. We are committed to fulfilling the legacy of Barbara Bush, the First Lady of Literacy, by working towards an America in which all adults have the opportunity to read, write, and comprehend in order to navigate the world with dignity.
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http://www.barbarabush.org
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- Industry
- Philanthropy
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Washington, D.C.
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1989
- Specialties
- Literacy, Education, Innovation, and Advocacy
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Washington, D.C. 20044, US
Employees at Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy
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We're thrilled to announce the launch of the Barbara Bush Centennial – a national, yearlong celebration marking the 100th anniversary of our founder’s birth. Featuring special events across the country and the launch of a new family literacy network, we look forward to honoring Barbara Bush's extraordinary legacy of literacy and reaffirming our shared commitment to carrying on the work that she began. Read more here: https://rb.gy/rxy0l1
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We are excited to announce the appointment of Elliott Gaskins as the Barbara Bush Foundation's new Chief Development Officer. Elliott brings expertise from years of service at some of the nation’s premier nonprofit institutions, along with a passion for impacting lives, to our work to address the challenge of low literacy in the United States. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eZZBxmPf
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We're proud of our reading mentoring programs, ReadSquad and Book Explorers, which pair volunteer mentors with struggling readers in grades 1-3. Learn more in our Reading Mentoring Programs 2024 Impact Report and discover how these programs are boosting literacy skills in students across the country: https://rb.gy/6u5txy
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If you're attending the 2024 ProLiteracy Worldwide Conference on Adult Education, be sure to join Pam Cote, our Senior Director of Literacy Programs and Partnerships to learn about the Barbara Bush Foundation's innovative strategies and effective resources to support practitioners, adult learners, and families.
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It was an honor to share the stage with Sec. Hillary Clinton and our partners from Too Small to Fail of the Clinton Foundation and the United Way of Pennsylvania for the formal announcement of this exciting partnership to support literacy in Pennsylvania. See the video of the announcement below. #CGI2024
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When #firstladies and their foundations join forces, this happens:
Barbara Bush and Clinton Foundations Join Forces in New Literacy Campaign
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We're proud to partner with Too Small to Fail, the early education initiative of the Clinton Foundation, and the United Way of Pennsylvania, to reach families across Pennsylvania with information and tools to support early literacy. Barbara Bush Foundation President Andrew Roberts joined Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and our partners at the Clinton Global Initiative 2024 Annual Meeting for the announcement of this bold commitment to empower parents and children with as many early learning opportunities as possible. Read more here: https://rb.gy/164yvv #CGI2024
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According to a study commissioned by ALL IN: The Adult Literacy and Learning Impact Network, policy influencers in Washington, D.C. believe there is a wide variety of obstacles to boosting adult literacy, ranging from low awareness of the scale of the issue to limited investment. Learn more about policy influencer perspectives on literacy in ALL IN's DC Policy Influencer Survey Report: https://lnkd.in/esqfqynG #AEFLWeek
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