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As members and avid readers, we know that literacy and learning go hand in hand. Reading opens young minds and expands imaginations to a world of opportunity and possibilities. For too many, everyday basics like books and reading often fall by the wayside.
Children and youth facing these environmental challenges, combined with low reading and literacy skills, experience effects on their ability to thrive, flourish, and keep up with their peers.
From October through December, we’re rallying to raise $100,000 from generous members and donors—building on our $50,000 budget to award $150,000 in grants to literacy programs across Arizona.
Your core gifts— sponsorships, donations, memberships, and matching opportunities—fuel our mission. Gifts to the Literacy Grant Challenge go directly to vetted community programs, expanding our reach and impact where it’s needed most.
Let’s turn the page together—every gift helps Arizona’s kids read, thrive, and succeed.
Giving to the Literacy Grant Challenge invests in Arizona's children and youth's academic and life success and emotional and intellectual development. Children who struggle with reading proficiency by third grade dramatically limit their education options, employment, and income potential, continuing the cycle of illiteracy.
Arizona's children are alarmingly behind, with only 39% of third graders reading at grade level and a state goal of 72%. Three out of every four fourth graders in Arizona cannot read proficiently. Only Nevada, Alaska, and Washington, D.C. have lower National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading score percentages. There is an urgent need for improvement.
If donating by check, including Donor Advised Fund, Foundation, QCD, please send to:
Literary Society of the Southwest
4980 S. Alma School Road, A2-510
Chandler, AZ 85248Helpful Tax Information and Address:
Legal Name: Literary & Prologue Society of the Southwest, DBA Literary Society of the Southwest
Legal Address: 4980 S. Alma School Rd., Ste A2-510, Chandler, AZ 85248
Federal Tax ID: 20-2868229
Type of Organization: 501 (c)(3) nonprofit
 | Literary Society of the SouthwestMISSIONCelebrate contemporary literature and authors and promote the cause of literacy in Arizona. VISIONBring the joy and lifelong benefits of reading to all!
| (480)658-0539 ยท Email us Federal Tax ID: 20-2868229 Type of Organization: 501 (c)(3) nonprofit
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