成人快播

Funds will help 成人快播 support students in Baltimore and across the country at a time when learning disruptions have disproportionately impacted students experiencing economic challenges聽聽

(Baltimore, MD) February 28, 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 programs. The largest single gift to 成人快播 comes as the organization is embarking on an initiative to raise more than $100 million over three years to expand 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 Baltimore and 11 other regions across the US, mobilizing community volunteers to provide students with the proven, individualized reading support they deserve in order to read at grade level by fourth grade. Working one-on-one with their tutors, students become proud, confident readers and have a greater opportunity to shine in school and beyond.

Currently partnering with 15 elementary schools throughout Baltimore, 成人快播 transforms a dedicated space within each partner school into a reading center, complete with a library and teaching tools, to deliver its traditional in-person tutoring program. When the pandemic started, 成人快播 rapidly innovated and launched an interactive online tutoring program鈥敵扇丝觳� Connects鈥攖o ensure students could still receive their weekly one-on-one tutoring sessions during school closures. The new program model enables students and tutors to connect safely online and includes a curriculum aligned with Common Core standards.

The extraordinary challenges of the past few years have exacerbated pre-existing opportunity gaps, with pandemic-related learning disruptions disproportionately impacting Black and Latinx students and students experiencing economic disadvantages. 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 impact far more students than ever before and ensure equitable access to high-quality literacy education.

鈥淢acKenzie Scott鈥檚 transformational gift illustrates the trust she has in 成人快播 to close literacy opportunity gaps and achieve greater educational equity for students, not just in Baltimore, but across the country,鈥� says Jessica Kohnen, 成人快播 Baltimore interim executive director. 鈥淎s we enter our second decade serving students in Baltimore, we know it will take everyone鈥攙olunteers, partners, supporters鈥攚orking together to realize 成人快播鈥� vision for a future where all students have the reading skills to reach their full potential.鈥�

MacKenzie Scott鈥檚 gift to 成人快播 comes two months after the philanthropist and author donated $40 million to Morgan State University. The HBCU is a longtime community partner with 成人快播 Baltimore, with hundreds of MSU students providing volunteer tutoring to Baltimore City students throughout 成人快播’ ten-year history in Baltimore.

成人快播 believes reading is foundational and that the ability to read transforms lives and empowers children and communities to thrive. To learn more about 成人快播 Baltimore, become a volunteer tutor, or make a contribution, please visit聽.

A 成人快播 student working remotely with a volunteer tutor using the 成人快播 Connects program (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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