LEAP Grant applications are live! Our Literacy and Education in Action Program has raised over $400,000 for libraries and nonprofit organizations in support of grassroots literacy efforts in communities around the world.
LEAP was designed to fund specific high-impact education and literacy projects that target under-served populations, with the recipients chosen by our Literacy Council as well as our online community. Here are the funding details:
LEAP for Nonprofits
Total distributed: $20,000
Maximum amount awarded per recipient: $5,000
Selection process: 2 selected by Better World Books Literacy Council, and 2 selected by online community vote (that means you!)
Learn more and apply
LEAP for Libraries
Total distributed: $40,000
Maximum amount awarded per recipient: $15,000
Selection process: Winners selected by Better World Books Literacy Council
Learn more and apply
If you’ve got a project in the works to bolster your community with literacy support that will make a long-term difference, we’d love to be a part of it. And so would our consumers, as LEAP Grants are just one part of our social impact made possible by the thousands of libraries who use BetterWorldBooks Library Discards & Donations Program.
if a Library system has a nonprofit, can an application be submitted for both LEAP for Nonprofits and LEAP for Libraries?
~K
I am the librarian at a Stephen E Kramer Middle School in Southeast Washington, DC. This fall, i am tasked with creating a reading program to promote literacy to a student population that reads two grades or more below grade level. Through organizations like Better World Books, I have assembled a collection of books for the students to choose from (though I could use more), but am really stuck on finding incentives for the students. My framework will be a competition between classrooms to read the most books between November and December with wining classes in each grade. I would love to have basketball tickets or something to give out to the winners, but I have no budget to make that happen.