LitWorld is a 501C3 nonprofit organization led by Executive Director Pam Allyn. We are working to cultivate literacy leaders worldwide through transformational literacy experiences that build connection, understanding, resilience and strength. LitWorld joins together with teachers, parents, community members, and children to support the development of sustainable literacy practices across the world. Since LitWorld's founding in 2007, we have reached over 40,000 people in at least 35 countries through advocacy efforts, most particularly World Read Aloud Day, and LitWorld Girls Clubs are currently launching in the US, Kenya, and Ghana.

LitWorld's mission grew from the work of Pam Allyn's other organization LitLife, which has been working to improve schools and learning practices on a national level since 2002, and her Books for Boys initiative, which has been transforming the lives of at-risk youth living in Dobbs Ferry's residential treatment center and school, The Children's Village, since 1999.

Through our programs and resources we use technology and literature to provide opportunities for individuals and groups to not only improve literacy skills, but develop depth of understanding and compassion, and build networks of community leaders who can implement and expand the work we have created. These programs and resources ensure that literacy is not just a responsibility and a necessity but a value and a joy.

What does LitWorld Believe?
All children have stories that matter. By telling and sharing their own stories, children become inspired to read and write. By learning to read and write, children gain the power to transform their lives. Children's stories then become a force for justice and change in the world.

What will LitWorld Accomplish?
By 2014: Help one million children learn to read.
By 2015: Implement our three-year literacy strategy in eight additional countries.
By 2016: Equip ten thousand literacy leaders to effect change that will impact ten million children.

These are words changing worlds.