#BooksNotBarsOR Programs
Literacy
Our literacy work is critical to disrupting intergenerational poverty and ending the school to prison pipeline. We bring the joy of reading to all kids by providing culturally specific books and in some cased building culturally specific libraries to serve our youth. We are instilling the love of reading and making literature more accessible to our youth.
During COVID we held fundraisers in a Book Drive campaign and were able to buy and mail brand new books to over 500 kids.
#BooksNotBarsOR
Page Turner Program
We are inspiring a passion for reading by partnering with adults nation wide to record themselves reading kids’ favorite books. We distribute the recordings, so youth throughout Portland can be read to at any moment.