Genoa Elementary School is proud to announce that we have been selected as a recipient of Worldreader’s Let’s Get Children Reading Grant. The grant program is designed to support community-based nonprofit organizations dedicated to getting children and their families reading a minimum of 25 books a year.
The Let's Get Children Reading Grant was opened in March 2023 to US organizations working to solve the learning crisis by promoting family reading and building the reading confidence of parents and caregivers to support their child’s learning. After a rigorous selection process, Worldreader announced that Genoa Elementary School has been selected as a grantee.
"We are thrilled to announce the grantees of the Let's Get Children Reading Grant. According to the 2022 National Assessment of Education Progress, 65% of children in the United States cannot read or understand a simple story. We believe reading can and should happen anywhere and we make it easy to do that using BookSmart. The grantees we have selected are using creativity to engage readers everywhere from laundry mats and prison visitor centers to schools and homes, doing crucial work to help solve the crisis, and we are proud to support their efforts." – Kristen Walter, Worldreader Director of US Programs
Genoa Elementary School joins a community of 27 grant recipients working together to build a world of readers. The grant program has an ambitious goal of getting 75,000 children ages 3-12 reading over the next two years to improve reading comprehension and social-emotional learning.
We are grateful for this extraordinary funding opportunity, which will help implement reading programs focused on a range of areas, including improving access to reading, building reading comprehension and emotional intelligence, and fostering a love of reading among children. The full list of grantees can be found here.