Foundations
Program grants for the 12-month Literacy, Leadership & Community Book Initiative, with a defined objective set, a measurement framework and reporting against target.
Contributes · Restricted or general program funding
Partners
Three ways in, and all of them matter.
Readers Are Leaders is deliberately built to run on partnership rather than on a building and a payroll. That means what we need from you is specific — and it is never only money.
Fund
Foundations, corporations and major donors
Underwrite books, events and the measurement that proves they worked. Grant-ready documentation and a defined 12-month objective set are available on request.
Partner
Schools, publishers, bookstores and organizations
Host an event, supply books at cost or in kind, open a venue, or bring us to the young people you already serve.
Serve
Mentors, authors, educators and volunteers
Read with young people, speak at an event, help run a book drive, or mentor beyond the event itself.
What each relationship contributes
Be specific about what you can give.
A publisher’s remainder stock and a foundation’s program grant are not interchangeable, and neither is a mentor’s Saturday. Here is what we would actually ask of you.
Institutional funders
Corporations
Corporate philanthropy, employee volunteering at book drives, and sponsorship of individual literacy events.
Contributes · Sponsorship, matched giving, volunteer teams
Books and content
Publishers
Donated or deeply discounted title allocations, particularly contemporary age-appropriate fiction and non-fiction for children and teenagers.
Contributes · Inventory, remainders, author access
Bookstores
Collection points for book drives, fulfilment at cost, and hosted reading events.
Contributes · Distribution, venue, at-cost supply
Authors
Appearances, readings and conversations that let young people meet the person behind a book.
Contributes · Time, presence, signed copies
Community and education
Schools
Access to the young people who would benefit, space for programming, and educator insight into what students actually need.
Contributes · Access, venue, educator partnership
Educators
Curriculum insight, facilitation of discussions, and continuity between an event and a classroom.
Contributes · Facilitation, curriculum guidance
Community organizations
Co-hosted events, shared outreach, and referral pathways to families already in your care.
Contributes · Co-delivery, outreach, referrals
Mentors and volunteers
Event support, reading sessions, logistics, and longer-term mentoring relationships.
Contributes · Time and consistency
In developmentNo partner organizations are named on this site. We will publish partners only with their written permission, and only once a relationship is real — a logo wall assembled before that would tell you nothing true about this organization.
Start a conversation
Tell us what you have in mind.
There is no form letter at the other end of this. Say what your organization does and what you think you could offer, and you will get a specific answer about whether and how it fits.