- Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, The
 - Dedicated to establishing literacy as a value in every family in America. - Beginning With Books
- Focuses on increasing the number of children who are lifelong readers through programmes for low-income families.
- BookPALS
- All-volunteer literacy programme in which professional actors visit public primary schools in local neighbourhoods to read aloud to children every week.
- California Literacy
- Statewide nonprofit organisation providing leadership to new and existing literacy programmes and their students, through training, resources, consultation and advocacy.
- Children's Literature for Children
- Nonprofit educational organisation dedicated to teaching children to read books within a sequential, structured school programme.
- Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
- Literacy programme providing a book a month for registered preschoolers.
- Exercise the Right to Read
- Organisation raising funds to provide books for school libraries and disadvantaged children through marathon running.
- Ezra Jack Keats Foundation
- Includes information about the author, his characters, and the foundation's efforts to promote children's literacy.
- First Book
- A national nonprofit organisation with a single mission: to give disadvantaged children the opportunity to read and own their first new books.
- Foundation for California Early Literacy Learning
- Staff development programme designed to help preK - 6 teachers improve their teaching of reading and writing.
- If I Can Read, I Can Do Anything
- National reading and literacy club for Native American children.
- Laubach Literacy New Brunswick
- Volunteer organisation offering confidential, free literacy training.
- Motheread
- Nonprofit organisation offering training, literacy clsses, curriculum development, and projects.
- National Institute for Literacy@
- National Jewish Coalition for Literacy
- Coalition of national Jewish agencies and organisations committed to help all america's children learn to read by the end of 3rd grade. NJCL's affiliates mobilise and train volunteer tutors who offer one-on-one help in public schools.
 National Literacy Strategy (NLS)
- Supports teachers, trainee teachers, and others working to improve literacy in primary schools.- National Right to Read Foundation (NRRF)
- Seeks to eliminate illiteracy through promotion of phonics instruction.
- Pratham
- Network of non-government organisations dedicated to promoting primary education for disadvantaged children.
- Read In Foundation, Inc.
- Promotes global literacy and the use of telecommunications technology in education. Sponsors an annual project connecting authors and kids through chat rooms.
- Reading Is Fundamental (2)
- Reading Is Fundamental, UK
- Offers fun and games to encourage reading for children of all ages. Also includes top tips for grown-ups about books and reading.
- Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education (SCALE)
- National organisation that mobilises college students to address the literacy needs of this country.
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