OneCommunity Reads, Una Comunidad Leyendo!
This Community Solutions Initiative was part of the Arkansas Campaign for Grade-Level Reading and funded by the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation from 2013-2014. It launched Feed Your Brain (FYB), Alimenta Tu Cerebro and expanded Parents Taking Leadership Action, Padres Tomando Liderazgo en Acción (PTLA).
The goals of the campaign were to increase grade-level reading by third grade, increase parent-community engagement, reduce chronic absenteeism and summer learning loss, and to make reading a part of the home culture. These two programs have since expanded and serve families at multiple schools in Springdale and three Fayetteville Housing Authority locations.
The initiative is now associated with Excel by Eight and is featured under their heading Previous Work.