Our Partners
Our coalition of mission-aligned nonprofits collaborates with educators and community leaders to achieve a common goal: equipping all North Texas students with the essential skill of reading.
We use a collective impact model that aligns efforts across organizations to tackle early literacy at scale.
Leadership Council
The Leadership Council is comprised of Read Up’s anchor organizations. As part of the coalition’s governing body, they play a central role in shaping the coalition’s strategy and sustainability.
These high-impact literacy providers not only deliver services aligned with Read Up’s vision and contribute to the collective effort like Literacy Allies—they also guide collective decision-making, engage in joint fundraising, co-design shared standards and lead efforts to strengthen coalition-wide impact. Leadership Council members are fully committed to shared accountability, aligned action and long-term systems change.
Beacon Hill changes the odds for students with high-quality, high-impact learning opportunities that create pathways to success. Based in Dallas/Fort Worth, the organization offers in-school, afterschool, and summer reading and math tutoring, other academic enrichment programs, and parent education in underserved neighborhoods. Beacon Hill’s formula for success is bringing the highest quality, proven learning strategies to schools and neighborhoods with the greatest need, delivered by professional tutors with a vested interest in the local community.
Readers 2 Leaders equips students for success through the power of reading. The Dallas-based nonprofit provides tutoring in classrooms, after school and at its Booktown Learning Center, plus equips the community with powerful and proven ways to teach reading. Knowing no one organization can stem the literacy crisis in our community alone, Readers 2 Leaders provides coaching, consulting and education opportunities to others leading children to literacy–from parents and program leaders to current and future educators.
Reading Partners North Texas mobilizes communities to provide students with the proven, individualized reading support they need to read at grade level. Their volunteer-driven model engages trained community volunteers to support students in developing mastery of key reading skills using an evidence-based curriculum rooted in the science of reading. Reading Partners brings high-quality literacy education programs to students and communities nationwide and has been a part of the Dallas-Fort Worth educational landscape since 2012.
Literacy Allies
Literacy Allies are mission-aligned organizations that deliver high-quality literacy programming and collaborate as part of Read Up to improve student outcomes across the region.
Literacy Allies contribute to the collective effort by using shared metrics and resources, coordinating services, and participating in aligned professional learning. Their partnership helps expand Read Up’s reach and reinforces our shared commitment to early literacy.
Catch Up & Read believes in the power of literacy to break the cycle of poverty. Since 2009, the Dallas-based organization has equipped first through third grade students in under-championed communities to read on grade level by training teachers in evidence-based instruction and providing targeted, in-school and after school tutoring.
Key Investors in Read Up
We are deeply grateful to our funding and community partners, whose philanthropic support powers Read Up’s work and represents a lasting investment in the strength and future of the North Texas community.
