For the School Readiness Playgroup, a program providing preschool experiences for children ( birth to 5 years) that includes parent engagement and support.

For the Oakland Leaf Family Literacy program that includes the Rise and Shine reading program (before school family reading time) and Family Reading Night.

To purchase curriculum and materials for transition kindergarten classrooms, aligned with the California Preschool Foundations (social-emotional, language and literacy, etc.), and Common Core Kindergarten Standards. They will also provide training for teachers and provide families with materials and instructions for home learning activities.

For Raising a Reader Oakland, a reading readiness program that engages parents in daily book sharing routines and provides teacher support.

For the Oakland Early Literacy Initiative, a partnership with health organizations in Oakland that works with doctors to provide parents guidance on how to support their children’s early literacy development. The program also provides brand new, developmentally and culturally-appropriate books for children at their well-child pediatric visits.

For Reading Partners Oakland, a program that recruits and trains community volunteers to provide individualized literacy instruction to students in kindergarten to 5th grade who have fallen behind grade-level in reading.

To support an after-school literacy and enrichment  program at Brookfield Elementary School in Oakland.

A program that serves children in preschool classrooms, helping them develop the language, literacy, and social skills they need for school readiness.

For a reading readiness program that engages parents in daily book sharing routines and provides teacher support.

For Reading Partners Oakland, a program that recruits and trains community volunteers to provide individualized literacy instruction to K to 5th grade students who have fallen behind grade level in reading.