Read USA Inc.

“The form 990 is presented to the board of directors before the return is filed.”

“The read usa, inc board of directors, officers, and all employees are required to disclose annually, interests that could give rise to conflict. The executive director is responsible for reviewing the disclosures and maintaining compliance with the conflict-of-interest policy. Should any potential conflicts of interest be disclosed, the board member would be asked to refrain from participating in any deliberation or decision with regard to matters affected by the relationship.”

“The organization's governing documents are available upon request.”

“Based on research, read usa, inc. Is targeting breaking the cycle of generational poverty through programming that is laser focused on closing the literacy gap for children from under resourced communities. Research shows that two-thirds of low income homes have zero books and two-thirds of fourth grade children who struggle to read will end up in jail or on welfare. Read usa, inc. Is creating awareness and action towards this issue and turning the page on these statistics in a positive way.”

“Read usa also expanded their peer-to-peer reading tutoring intervention program employing, training, and supervising over 250 high school teens mostly from the mayor's youth at work partnership and hiring over 50 licensed educators within the school district providing enhanced pay and professional literacy instruction development. These teen tutors received training on the curriculum materials and professional work environment expectation and skills. They were then paired with nearly 800 elementary school students identified by the school district as below grade level readers for an intense daily 1 to 1 literacy tutoring session for 4 months in 12 duval county elementary schools. Pre and post assessment tests were analyzed by an independent source, the university of north florida, which showed to be highly effective in producing reading gains for both the teen tutors as well as the younger students they led.”

“Read usa expanded its multi-cultural literacy offerings through expanded partnerships with the jacksonville jaguars, the cummer museum of art and gardens, and others with additional book ownership opportunities for children as a well as many additional free digital resources, including read alouds by local and national leaders, many video creations by read usa as well as instructional videos and resources for educators and families.”