JAX Exchange - Winter 2025 - Magazine - Page 57

The Sacramento Literacy Foundation’s mission is to help all children in our community read at grade-level. The Literacy Foundation is Sacramento’s ‘local literacy convener’, a literacy funder, and literacy program provider. We directly impact community members at different levels with a vision that all children and all adults develop the literacy skills needed to fully participate in our economy and democracy.

This year we made great strides with our core goals. Our first goal: putting culturally relevant, high-quality books in the hands and homes of Sacramento’s most under-resourced children, resulted in growing our total books distributed to 115,000 books in 23,000 homes. Our second goal: advocating for evidence-based reading curriculum and teacher training for all classrooms, had amazing gains with the passage and funding of the Science of Reading Bill, AB 1454. And, our third goal: expanding funding for children’s literacy programs, is realized through our endowment campaigns which are ongoing.

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