Literacy to Liberation
Transforming Classrooms for Racial Equity
Racial inequity deepens when we fail to teach Black and Latinx students to read.
CLI is normalizing anti-racist pedagogy at the source.
Make a gift. Empower a child.
Children deserve the opportunity to achieve their dreams, and learning to read is a critical step in that journey. Help us provide Black and Latinx children the high-quality & culturally sustaining literacy instruction they deserve.
How will you investment bring transformative change?
Your investment will enable CLI and its partners to normalize anti-racist, culturally sustaining early literacy instruction and catalyze generational impact at the onset of every Black and Latinx child's literacy journey.
Inspired by what you've seen and want to support CLI? Contact a member of our Development Team to learn more about how your philanthropic investment can advance our literacy mission.
Literacy is practice of justice and joy, and we are committed to supporting children and teachers.
Our goal is that Black and Latinx children learn to read as a powerful act of identity, agency, and cultural joy.
CLI honed its validated, evidence-based approach through 30 plus years of innovation and service, improving teacher practice and Black and Latinx children's literacy outcomes. Our staff and board reflect diversity and inclusivity, and we are deeply committed to becoming an anti-racist organization.
50%
CLI Staff Leadership and Board are people of color
90,000+
Black & Latinx students served
Donate today
Make a gift. Your tax-deductible contribution fuels our work. With your help we can ensure teachers in under-resourced schools continue to have the training and resources they need to help students develop the reading skills essential to success. With your support, we can do more.
Inspired by what you've seen and want to support CLI? Contact a member of our Development Team to learn more about how your philanthropic investment can advance our literacy mission