Indy Reads

Indy Reads is honored to have received the LISC Indianapolis Love Thy Neighborhood award in the Education category! Watch our video to hear from Indy Reads students, graduates, and Chief Executive Officer, Ruba Marshood. In addition, you can VOTE NOW for Indy Reads as the People's Choice award winner this year. Visit https://lnkd.in/dhTvqyGP to vote for us and we can win an additional $5,000! Thank you for your support, and happy reading!

It was a beautiful day at the SECC Event - Charity Spotlight at the Statehouse Market! Our sincerest thanks to Jeff and Dawn, Indy Reads volunteers who have also served in our Community Classrooms and bookstore, for their time at the fair today. To learn more about Indy Reads and to get involved, visit www.indyreads.org. Happy reading, and we'll see you soon! #DoGoodReadMore #LiteracyForAll

Indy Reads is honored to have received the LISC Indianapolis Love Thy Neighborhood award in the Education category! Watch our video to hear from Indy Reads students, graduates, and Chief Executive Officer, Ruba Marshood: https://lnkd.in/gfN4ycEx In addition, you can VOTE NOW for Indy Reads as the People's Choice award winner this year. Visit https://lnkd.in/gQZhttBM to vote for us and we can win an additional $5,000! Thank you for your support, and happy reading!

Indy Reads is honored to have been selected as a nominee in the Education category for LISC Indianapolis’ Love Thy Neighborhood Awards! LISC Indianapolis created the Love Thy Neighborhood Awards in 2017 to encourage the transformation of neighborhoods throughout the Indy region into authentic and vibrant places profoundly attractive and livable for both residents and visitors. Each year, 12 organizations or projects are recognized as finalists for their role in impacting livability, opportunity, vitality, and education in their neighborhoods. Videos featuring all nominees will run TONIGHT at 7pm in a special segment on WISH-TV's facebook page (https://lnkd.in/g33fMtrU). Now, we need YOUR help to take home the $5,000 People’s Choice Award. Voting will remain open through Tuesday, September 17th at 11:59 pm. Voting will begin at 8pm TONIGHT here: https://lnkd.in/gCf4Cauv. Congratulations to all the nominees and thank you for your support!

TOMORROW at 6pm, you're invited to share your poetry, song, dance, and all forms of storytelling at our monthly Poetry & More Open Mic! This public stage is open to all ages, all languages, and all forms of art. Join us to share your stories and art on Wednesday, September 11th! Read more: https://ow.ly/R3z550Tka31 #DoGoodReadMore #LiteracyforAll

The Indy Actors' Playground meets again TONIGHT at 7pm! Join us for this monthly cold reading by local actors hosted by Lou Harry. The Playground features a rotating cast of great actors running through the plays they've always wanted to perform. Details here: https://ow.ly/Go9r50TjskU #DoGoodReadMore #LiteracyForAll

We have a full weekend of almost-Fall fun upcoming at Indy Reads! Join us on Saturday for Drag Story Hour, an author reading with Robert Rebein, and a new workshop with writing group Pen to Paper. On Sunday, we are hosting our first Family History Showcase! Join us 11am-5pm to create a family history piece, or to browse displays from other participants! As always, practice English for FREE in our ELL Conversation Circles at 3pm. Spanish Conversation Circles will follow at 4pm. Visit www.indyreads.org/events for more information. Happy reading; we'll see you soon! #DoGoodReadMore #LiteracyForAll

Today is the International Day of Charity! Visit Indy Reads TOMORROW, 11am-7pm to donate your gently used books. Proceeds from book sales at Indy Reads help keep our adult education classes tuition-free for our students. Thank you for your support; happy reading! #DoGoodReadMore #LiteracyForAll

Our sincerest thanks to The Clowes Fund, Inc. for selecting Indy Reads as their most recent grantee spotlight! We are honored for their continued support as we advance social equity through education. "ADVANCING SOCIAL EQUITY THROUGH EDUCATION (Fall 2024). For more than 40 years, Indy Reads has been working towards its vision of 100% literacy for all. Each program year, Indy Reads serves more than 400 adult learners in its tuition-free High School Equivalency (HSE), English Language Learning (ELL), Literacy Foundations, and workforce certifications Community Classrooms. Indy Reads also operates a community bookstore in Fountain Square that hosts more than 250 events annually and makes the joy of reading accessible to all. Since 1984, Indy Reads has maintained a commitment to serving the most beginning-level learners with the Literacy Foundations program. As 1 in 6 Hoosiers cannot read above a fifth-grade level, this unique program meets a critical need in the central Indiana adult education sector. Across all of Indy Reads’ programs, 95% of students are immigrants, people of color, and/or living below 200% of the federal poverty line. In its 2023-24 program year, Indy Reads served adult learners from 48 different countries who speak 35 different languages." Read the entire spotlight here: https://lnkd.in/gbKE7JnS

Indy Reads' bookstore is CLOSED today in honor of Labor Day. Our classes and office are open. To have books delivered right to your home, visit indyreads.org/shop. We will see you again tomorrow, 11am-7pm! #DoGoodReadMore #LiteracyForAll