成人快播 Receives Unsolicited $20 Million from MacKenzie Scott and Announces Plans to Raise $100 Million Over Three Years to Advance Educational Equity Through Early Literacy
March 15, 2022
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Hong Thach
Development and External Relations Director
hong.thach@readingpartners.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Funds will help 成人快播 support students in the San Francisco Bay Area and across the country at a time when learning disruptions have disproportionately impacted students experiencing economic challenges
(Oakland, CA) March 15, 2022聽鈥� 成人快播 received a $20 million, unrestricted gift from MacKenzie Scott to support the national nonprofit鈥檚聽聽early literacy intervention program. This comes as the organization is embarking on an initiative to raise more than $100 million over three years to provide a range of literacy support services to tens of thousands of students across the country each year.
成人快播 collaborates with under-resourced public schools in the San Francisco Bay Area and 11 other regions across the US and mobilizes community volunteers to provide students with the proven, individualized reading support they need to read at grade level by fourth grade. Working one-on-one with their tutors, students become proud, confident readers and research shows that students who read at grade level by fourth grade have a greater opportunity to shine in school and beyond.
Currently partnering with 21 elementary schools throughout the Bay Area, 成人快播 transforms a dedicated space into a reading center, complete with a library and teaching tools managed by a full-time AmeriCorps member or staff member. When the pandemic started, 成人快播 rapidly innovated and launched an interactive online literacy tutoring program鈥攚ith access to a digital library鈥攖o ensure students could still receive their weekly tutoring sessions during campus closures and limited access. The new program model, 成人快播 Connects, enables students and tutors to connect safely online, and includes a curriculum aligned with Common Core and state literacy standards.
Over the next few years, 成人快播 aims to leverage 成人快播 Connects and other programmatic innovations and community-centered partnerships to positively impact far more students than ever before. The contribution from MacKenzie Scott provides timely support as 成人快播 aims to accelerate progress toward its mission of helping children become skilled, confident, lifelong readers.
鈥淐ompletely overwhelmed by this unsolicited $20 million gift! This is an absolute acknowledgement of our incredible Black women-led executive leadership,鈥� says 成人快播 Bay Area鈥檚 executive director, Hector Salazar. 鈥淎deola Whitney’s efforts as CEO of 成人快播 to center our work on educational equity through positive literacy outcomes in Oakland and San Francisco has been timely and transformational. Our brilliant students deserve every opportunity to thrive as adults in the Bay Area…and we deeply believe it starts with developing a passion for reading at a young age.鈥�
The extraordinary challenges of the past few years have exacerbated pre-existing opportunity gaps, with pandemic-related learning disruptions disproportionately impacting Black and Latino students and students experiencing economic disadvantages. 成人快播 is committed to ensuring that all students receive equitable access to a high-quality literacy education, and聽聽has proven that 成人快播 helps students significantly increase reading proficiency.
成人快播 believes reading is foundational and that the ability to read transforms lives and empowers children and communities to thrive. To get involved with or learn more about 成人快播 San Francisco Bay Area, please visit聽. To make a contribution toward 成人快播鈥� $100 million growth initiative to support exponentially more students, please visit聽.
A regional coordinator supports a 成人快播 student working remotely with a volunteer tutor using the 成人快播 Connects program innovation (photo credit: 成人快播)
A 成人快播 student working remotely with a volunteer tutor using the 成人快播 Connects program innovation (photo credit: 成人快播)
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About 成人快播
For over, 成人快播 has helped empower students to succeed in school and beyond by engaging community volunteers to provide one-on-one literacy tutoring. Since its founding, the national nonprofit organization has mobilized over 70,000 community volunteers to provide, individualized literacy tutoring to nearly 70,000 elementary school students in over 450 under-resourced schools across ten states and the District of Columbia. Visit聽to learn more about our聽and our聽online program innovation, or connect with us on,,, and. 成人快播 is a proud聽service partner and has been endorsed by The New York Times.
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