CLP empowers communities with the tools to help every child become a confident reader.
We serve with humility, lead with evidence, and believe in the power of communities to transform children’s lives through literacy.
We produce world class media to help you inspire volunteers, raise money and expand your impact.
Literacy is a way to love our neighbors, empowering lives through knowledge, hope, and connection.
Learn what it means to be a Reading Buddy and explore how you or your group can help.
Add your literacy organization to our national database
Our goal is to connect literacy organizations with funding, volunteers, and tools to help them grow.
SENTENCED partners with Stephen and Ayesha Curry to share a powerful look at the childhood illiteracy crisis.
Our films and books reveal the literacy crisis and the pathways to hope.
READ inspires neighborly love through literacy.
A School Transformation Masterclass
View our gallery of short, informative films.
Ron Fairchild, President of the Smarter Learning Group, discusses strategies to disrupt generational poverty through early childhood education.
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When churches lead with literacy, whole communities are changed.
A ready-to-use kit to help you lead the way at your church.
How God's People Can Bring Justice Through Literacy
Churches make fantastic school-partners. Enjoy these church-specific processes and practices.
If your church cares about children, serving others, and healing, you're already a literate church. Join us to get started.
A literacy initiative grows churches by developing leaders, fostering outreach, and strengthening community reputation.
If you can spare time and read above a fourth-grade level, become a reading buddy today—kids are waiting.
Expand your volunteer base creatively: grandparents, stay-at-home parents, teenagers, and swing-shift workers.
Churches partnering with schools: teach reading, serve humbly, no agenda, over-deliver, and serve together.
Partner effectively with schools by following their lead, serving generously, engaging locally, and seeking discernment.
Successful church-school partnerships require humility, commitment, avoiding culture wars, and prioritizing children's literacy.
Get your church involved in literacy: inspire, appoint a champion, find a school, recruit mentors, stay active.
Engage your church in literacy mentoring by inspiring members, appointing leaders, partnering with schools, and staying active.
In every neighborhood in America, you can find two things: An elementary school and several churches.
Expand church-city partnerships: collaborate with pastors, build networks, engage superintendents, promote literacy.
Becoming a Literacy Organization or a Literacy Church is a powerful way to serve your community.
