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Helping volunteers connect, collaborate, and celebrate volunteerism! We believe that giving back can create meaningful, long lasting change in your community.

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We love this new @NPR article about Alvin Irby and his Barbershop Books program! His nonprofit provides books to barbershops to help get kids excited about reading outside of the classroom. https://t.co/7E1m9ElkRL

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Help others reach their literacy goals by volunteering at a local library or a friends of the library group!
Some of our nonprofit partners are hosting volunteer opportunities within their libraries like @woburnlibrary, @RobbinsLib, and @Rozzielibrary
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Literacy can help break the school-to-prison pipeline. Students who need extra assistance in the classroom are often punished, rather than helped. Programs like Project Literacy are working to end this cycle.
Learn more https://t.co/TObKo0hKGB.
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Puppies and dogs can help improve reading skills! https://t.co/PPNLIjKFF3

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Literacy is empowering! Studies show that literacy boost rates of self-confidence and self-esteem.

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Reading allowed to those who can no longer read for themselves can provide them with stress reduction, mental stimulation, memory! Volunteer at your local nursing home or hospice to read aloud to seniors.

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Investing in literacy can yield large economic returns. According to UNESCO, economies are increasingly based on knowledge, rather than physical or natural resources. The more people with access to knowledge, the greater its likely economic benefits. #LiteracyMonth #GiveBackTime

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Literacy can be so much more than reading and writing!

To learn about other forms of literacy, check out this blog on AdvancingK12 https://t.co/B6O5JvfgQp

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Books break the shackles of time—proof that humans can work magic." —Carl Sagan

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"A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is...

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speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another...

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Based on a UNESCO study, literacy can reduce global poverty.
“If all students in low-income countries left school with elementary reading skills, 171 million people could be lifted out of poverty.”
For more information, visit https://t.co/wEnfsOHCQ9

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Learn about different cultures through reading!

Try "By Day, By Night" by Amy Gibson

Or check out some of the stories in the New York Library's "Around the World in 80+ Children's Books" https://t.co/1LxbwTqXSu

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Are you looking to help others with their reading skills or literacy goals? Look for a local nonprofit that specializes in tutoring or literacy! We can help you find an organization in your area like @sowma, @BostonPartners, or @Tutoring_Plus!

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UNESCO estimates that the infant mortality decreases 9% for every year of education attained by their mothers.
This is because girls and women are able to educate themselves about reproductive and maternal care if they are able to read.

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Set aside 30 minutes today to read a book! Finish one that has been on your nightstand for weeks, crack open a new novel, or head to your local library and pick a random book off the shelves.

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Use reading to enhance your foreign language skills and vocabulary!

Introduce kids to other languages with "My Language, Your Language" by Lisa Bullard.
Or, try reading a novel in a foreign language by using your own, or a libraries, e-reading app!

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Reading and literacy can help everyone take comfort and pride in who they are. Find examples in this collection of LGBT Pride Literature https://t.co/VaqXnbKN23

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in 1865, Oscar Wilde was sentenced to two years of hard labor after his relationship with Arthur Douglas was made public. Upon release, he stated in his unpublished work, De Profundis, "It is only by realising what I am that I have found comfort of any kind."