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Every Child Deserves Their Own Story

Access to books and early reading are essential to helping children reach their full potential. Yet 10 million children in the U.S. cannot afford to have books in their homes.
With your help, we can inspire a love of reading by matching every child, regardless of their economic means, with the perfect books.

Join our mission to bring books to underprivileged children and help them become lifelong readers.

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Tax exempt via the Literati Fund 501(c)(3) through every.org

u.s. literacy by the numbers

  • 66% of kids in US reading below grade level
  • Only 1 book owned per every 300 low income households
  • -34% drop in lifetime income for non-proficient readers

OUR MISSION

Provide Children with Better Access to Books

The Literati Impact fund 501(c)(3) was started by Literati, Inc. to support the education of the most vulnerable school-age children by expanding the impact of the work we do today in schools.

In a survey of 100K kids, access to appropriate printed material was cited as the #1 reason for the literacy shortfall.
— Jeff McQuillan, The Literacy Crisis

Creating a steady stream of new, age-appropriate books has been shown to nearly triple reading interest in months.
— Louis Harris, Assessment of Impact of First Book Program

How You Can Help

Our Impact Programs

The right book can change everything. Let them choose it.

  • Sponsor a Student

    Help underprivileged students take home books from their school book fair.
    $150 sponsors 10 kids.
    Donate

  • Sponsor a Classroom

    Clear a teacher wishlist to enrich classroom libraries and give more students access to books.
    $600 clears one teacher wishlist.
    Donate

  • Sponsor a School Book Fair

    Transform schools into book-filled havens and allow every child to select books they love.
    $8K sponsors a book fair for 500 kids.
    Donate

Donations to the Literati Fund 501(c)(3) are tax exempt through every.org

Testimonials

  • I want to say thank you. I do not understand how you are doing what you are doing, but I think it is incredible. I am in tears as I write this; my son brought home a bag of books from the book fair today.

    — J.G. Parent at a Start Reading Now Book Fair

  • The students are beyond excited about this generous gift. The teachers are so impressed with the book selections. I was thrilled to see such high-quality literature representing students at Maxfield.

    — Ms. S. Teacher at Maxfield Elementary Start Reading Now event

  • This year’s celebrations saw beautiful gift boxes of books delivered to all 17,000 students across 49 Oakland elementary schools … to make a meaningful difference in the lives of Oakland students.

    — Chris Helfrich, CEO of Eat. Learn. Play.

Who We Are

Let’s inspire a lifelong love of reading—together.

Literati is a company made up of people sharing a common belief: early reading and access to books are essential to helping children reach their full potential. Since our founding in 2016, we have put more than 22 million books into the hands of kids, with over a million of those donated to schools and communities in need.

Yet this is not enough. Every year, Literati reaches 2.5M children through book fairs. We see, time and again, heartbreaking scenarios of students not attending the book fair because they can’t afford to buy books, or entire schools not hosting fairs because most of their students come from low-income families.

With our Impact Program, we hope to inspire a love of reading by matching every child, regardless of their economic means, with the perfect books—helping them to grow and become lifelong readers.

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A collection of Literati subscribers reading books.