Our Partners

Literacy Trust is one of six organizations chosen to work with the Leon Lowenstein Foundation to move the needle in education in various pilot programs across the United States. With this funding and support, Literacy Trust is working with a Bronx school to expand reading intervention programming as well as other professional development and programming to change literacy outcomes across the school, both in intervention and through high leverage whole class literacy teaching practices.

Members of the New York City Council have discretionary budgets to apply to programming in their district that benefits their communities. For several years, Council Member Joe Borelli of Staten Island, as well as the Staten Island Delegation composed of three council members, have generously funded reading intervention programming in the borough.

The NYC Young Men’s Initiative, run out of the Mayor’s Office, seeks to improve outcomes for young men of color in NYC from cradle to career. By partnering with 50 elementary schools in YMI priority neighborhoods, Literacy Trust offers reading intervention professional development and intervention support to schools serving high numbers of students of color from high-poverty neighborhoods, from Harlem to East New York to the South Bronx.

The Staten Island Foundation focuses on improving education, health, community services, and the arts for the Staten Island community, specifically on the North Shore. Literacy Trust is honored to receive funding from the Staten Island Foundation to support literacy intervention in elementary schools on the North Shore.

The TD Bank Charitable Foundation has invested in Literacy Trust’s high impact tutoring model in Manhattan schools during school year 2022-2023 and Brooklyn schools during school year 2023-2024. Through this funding partnership, TD Bank is building capacity for literacy intervention in our school partners by directly supporting professional development for teachers and paraprofessionals, and providing more literacy intervention opportunities for students across the borough.

With the generous support of the Laura B. Vogler Foundation, Literacy Trust has begun a pilot program in partnership with AmeriCorps to recruit and train Senior volunteers to deliver high-quality literacy instruction to NYC students. The program aims to create meaningful volunteer opportunities for older adults while providing striving readers with the literacy intervention they need to become successful readers.

The NYC Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) supports New York City youth and their families by funding a wide range of youth and community development programs, including programs for literacy services. Through a generous grant from Council Member Borelli and the City Council Staten Island delegation, Literacy Trust is proud to partner with DYCD to serve several schools in Staten Island.

The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation has been a multi-year funder of Literacy Trust’s mission to create more fluent, self-confident readers across the highest-need schools. Literacy Trust is grateful for the support of the foundation across the years.