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Changing Children's Lives With the Gift of Literacy

Changing Children's Lives With the Gift of Literacy

Imagine a young child receiving a book in the mail every month until the age of five. What better way to say reading is important? Children enrolled in the Ferst Program receive a new book every month in the mail until their 5th birthday. There is absolutely no cost (ever) to registered children in participating areas! The program is made possible through the partnership with local, all-volunteer Community Action Teams (CATs).

Ferst Readers is a 501C3 organization whose funding is provided through private donations, corporate sponsorships, and grants. Contact us to help with a local program or get a new one started in your area so that we may work together to bring the gift of literacy to every child from birth-5 years old. Partnering together, we can help prepare every child for success in school and in life.

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  • For Parents

    The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children. Read More >>>
     

  • Program Overview

    Our Mission: Strengthening communities by providing quality books and literacy resources for children and their families to use at home during the earliest stages of development. Read More >>>

  • Get Involved

    Approximately 61 percent of low-income families do not have a single piece of reading material suitable for a child. Find out how you can help. Read More >>>
     

Supporters

$200,000 
The J. B. Fuqua Family

$100,000
Dollar General-Lead Corporate Sponsor

$20,000 to $40,000
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Inc.
The Home Depot Foundation
Atlanta Charity Clays, Inc.
J.W. Fund
The Lewis Hall and Mildred Sasser Singletary Foundation, Inc.
Tull Charitable Foundation
Georgia-Pacific and Georgia-Pacific Foundation
Community Foundation of South Georgia, Inc.
Pittuloch Foundation

$10,000 to $15,000
Imlay Foundation, Inc.
Williams Family Foundation of Georgia, Inc.
Bloomingdales, Inc.
Artie & Lee Richards
Atlanta Hawks Foundation, Inc.

$5,000- $9,999 
McMaster-Carr Supply Company
Lenora & Alfred Glancy Foundation, Inc.
Wish You Well Foundation
Jeanne Ferst
Peter Abreu
Mike Grimsley
The O'Keefe Family
The Devereaux F. & Dorothy M. McClatchey Foundation, Inc.

$1,000- $4,999
Meredith Corporation
John & Wilhelmina Harland Charitable Foundation
Asset Management Partners, Inc.
Mary & Francis Abreu Charitable Trust
Gay Knox Vaughn
Lois & Lucy Lampkin Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Alexander G. Morehouse
Celeste Becker
Joe Jones
Bev & Don Chapman
Mrs. Smith Griffith
11 Alive Community Grant
CIBC
Dixie Industrial Finishing Co., Inc.
Mattie Marshall Foundation
Rotary District 6910
Mrs. Deen Day Sanders
Walton EMC
Diane Steinman
Ann Murray
Judie Meeks
Alice Jane Wasdin

In-kind Donors

Atlanta Braves
Atlanta Hawks
Blue Tailed Studio
Copper Mountain Consulting
Dream Team Technologies
Flambeau, Inc.
Georgia Public Broadcasting
IBM
James Madison Conference Center, Madison
Killer Whale Productions
Knock Out Inc.
Metropolitan Literacy Network
Peachtree Publishers
Printing Finishers
Reflections Printing
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Thank you for visiting Ferst Readers!

Ensuring that children develop early literacy skills is one of the most important things we can do - as parents, as teachers - and as a society.

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