The Reading Team
Based in Harlem, the Reading Team is dedicated to enabling young children who are at high risk of reading failure to become strong and enthusiastic readers, writers, listeners, and speakers, and to develop the skills, habits, and behaviors that will support their success in school and in life. They accomplish this through a series of uniquely successful programs that immerse young children who are at high risk of reading failure in a rich and engaging learning environment before a lack of success in school dampens their natural enthusiasm for learning.
- Year
- 2024
- Purpose
- This year's funding will be used to off-set the costs of books, instructional and testing materials, supplies, and Literacy Coaches’ wages.
- Amount
- $6,000
- Year
- 2023
- Purpose
- The CCS grant will help pay for instructional materials, stipends for Literacy Mentors, and the ongoing costs of supplies to continue assisting children in the After-School Program (main site).
- Amount
- $5,000
- Year
- 2022
- Purpose
- The CCS grant will help pay for instructional materials, stipends for literacy mentors, and the ongoing costs of safety supplies including masks, hand sanitizers, disinfectant wipes, and potentially more single desks, to continue keeping our children infection-free at our after-school program (main site).
- Amount
- $5,000
- Year
- 2021
- Purpose
- The grant will support the After-School Program, ensuring that all the children who are new to the After-School Program will gain an average of more than 50 percentiles in reading ability and finish the school year well above grade level.
- Amount
- $5,000
- Year
- 2020
- Purpose
- The CCS grant will support the Preschool Satellite Program which will ensure children finish their pre-kindergarten years ready to learn and to grow in their literacy development when they enter kindergarten.
- Amount
- $4,000
- Year
- 2019
- Purpose
- Provided $4,000 to the Reading Team, which supported upgrades to their computer lab equipment used by children in their Preschool and After-School programs. The computer upgrades help the Reading Team enable the 700 children it serves become enthusiastic readers and writers, serving to reverse rates of reading failure among disadvantaged children.
- Amount
- $4,000