Approximately 80 percent of children living in economically disadvantaged communities lose reading skills over summer breaks due to a lack of access to books and other educational resources.
The 2025 summer literacy grant from Dollar General Literacy Foundation will support our 30+ Igniting Superheroes Summer Camp interns, who are working with students from all over Buncombe County in multi-sensory literacy instruction. THANK YOU!
Our 16th Annual Authors for Literacy Fundraiser, held on May 29, 2025, was a huge success! Here are some snapshots of the evening, courtesy of the talented Jesse Kitt…
We’re delighted to spotlight one of our Platinum Corporate Sponsors this month: Aeroflow Health! We had the pleasure of speaking with Joy Payne, Sr. Corporate Marketing & Content Specialist, about…
Thank you to The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina for providing us with a grant to support young and adult programming in Black Mountain and Swannanoa! 🙌📚 The Community Foundation…
🎉 A big thank-you to the TD Bank Charitable Foundation for generously supporting our Youth Literacy Program! 🙌📚 The TD Charitable Foundation, the giving arm of TD Bank—America’s Most Convenient…
With funding from the Pisgah Investments Foundation, we launched thirteen new ESOL classes at five different locations around Buncombe County. The introduction of these community-based ESOL classes has been nothing short of extraordinary. Since…
Grant announcement! 👏 📚 We are honored to announce that our Adult Literacy and ESOL programs were named as 2025 Proliteracy National Book Fund grant recipients! We were selected as…