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How to help

There are many easy and powerful ways to support MagazineLiteracy.org and to help kids and families learn to read and succeed. Wonderful people who volunteer time and money are the lifeblood of our mission. We need your help to reach more children.

• Volunteer. Help find and feed children and families hungry to read in your community.


• Donate funds. 100% of local sponsor donations are used to provide direct help to the kids and families in community literacy programs.


• Support the Kids Magazine Airlift to send your gift magazine to a child in a school or homeless or domestic violence shelter.


• Organize a KinderHarvest magazine drive to rescue donated or surplus magazines for use by literacy programs in your community.


• Be a Magazine Mentor - individuals, businesses, and organizations that sponsor children in classrooms, shelters, and other literacy programs in their own communities.


• Throw a KinderHarvest party for your friends. Ask them to bring their magazines to recycle for children and families in a nearby homeless or domestic violence shelter. Collect financial donations as well. 100% of your donations will be used to support local literacy programs.


• Visit VolunteerMatch to see more listings. There are opportunities across America. If you see a listing outside your area, contact us to get started in your town.


• Support these community literacy programs that need your help or find others in your community.


• Blog for literacy. Write about MagazineLiteracy.org in your blog. Read the Magazine Literacy Bee, to see what some of our volunteers are doing in their communities.


• Create a group action with your friends, family, or colleagues to raise funds for a literacy program.

• Imagine hungry children, sitting down to a nutritious meal at an after-school program, and then reading a wonderful kid's magazine with their volunteer mentors, or a family with no reading materials at home finding a magazine in the bag of groceries they receive from the food pantry.
  
  
• Imagine a mother and child at a domestic violence shelter, finding safety, settling in, and reading magazines to pass the time together. Then each child leaving with a magazine labeled to say it's their very own.
  
  
• Imagine a new foster family trying to connect with a battered child rescued from broken parents by sharing a magazine article about the constellations that will be in the sky that evening.
  
  
• Imagine an apprentice beautician enrolled in a community job training program flipping through the latest fashion and style magazines for inspiration.
  
  
• Imagine a displaced family moving into a new home built by their neighbors, stocked with necessities, with beautiful lifestyle magazines on their new coffee table, and delicious food magazines in their new kitchen.
  
  
• Imagine a community's rebuilt literacy center shelves, filled with brightly colored magazines of all kinds, after being blown down into a hurricane's knee deep water.
  
  
• Imagine what our campaign to end illiteracy can accomplish with your help and....