The Best Deal You'll Ever Get on Black Friday: From LitWorld!

A donation today can an help us to reach significant goals, including:

1. Reach 100 Syrian mothers in a refugee camp in Jordan to become Read Aloud Ambassadors and give comfort to thousands of children living in dire circumstances.

2. Start new LitClubs in India, Peru, Nepal and Los Angeles, reaching thousands of children each week with the power of reading and stories.

3. Provide LitCamp to 500 new kids. Help them experience the joy of reading and friendship in the world's toughest places.

4. Support 120 moms in Rwanda, Kenya and Haiti to empower their futures with literacy.

5. Give girls in our LitClubs two additional years of support so they can get to secondary school and college too.

You and your friends and family can make a contribution in honor of a friend or family member for the holiday season. Donate at /give.

Join LitWorld On #GivingTuesday to Fund LitCamp for 500 Children

 

On Tuesday, December 3, 2013, LitWorld will celebrate our first #GivingTuesday, a social media campaign dedicated to giving that is becoming as universally recognized as “Black Friday,” “Small Business Saturday,” and “CyberMonday." #Giving Tuesday is a movement that celebrates and encourages the idea of giving back, and practicing better and smarter giving during the holiday season. 

LitWorld's #GivingTuesday campaign is centered around our LitCamp program. On December 3rd our goal is to raise enough money to send 500 children to LitCamp. It only takes $34.92 to send a child to LitCamp for one week, and it only takes one week to boost literacy skills while creating joyful, everlasting memories founded on the magic of story and the power of a supportive literacy culture. These memories build resilience and hope, and show children what transformational literacy looks and feels like, inspiring them to use their own stories to change the outcome of their future.

Starting today, share any of the sample social media posts below to spread the word to your family and friends. Together we can make this #GivingTuesday dream come true! 

Sample social media posts:

Dec 3 is #GivingTuesday and LitWorld is raising funds in 1 day to send 500 kids to LitCamp. Help spread the word! http://litworld.org/give

LitWorld is funding LitCamp for 500 kids on #GivingTuesday: Just $34.92 per child. Donate Dec 3 and spread the word! http://litworld.org

Kids deserve learning joy year-round. On Dec 3 make dreams come true, $34.92 sends a child to LitCamp. / #GivingTuesday

This Giving Season Help LitWorld Reach 10,000 More Children

 

LitWorld is a global movement powered by the stories of children, giving young people living in the most dire circumstances the chance to change their futures through our unique approach to literacy, centered around joy, hope and resilience.

Our goal is to raise $250,000 so we can bring 10,000 children into the LitWorld movement. Everyone who wants to belong to a LitClub or join a LitCamp should have this opportunity. Your contribution before December 31st will make this dream come true.

Please be this beautiful story with us: Donate today.

Shop With Purpose: Use AmazonSmile to Donate Part of Your Purchases to LitWorld

Amazon has just launched a new project, and we couldn't be more excited! AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support your favorite charitable organization every time you shop, at no cost to you.

When you shop on AmazonSmile, 0.5% of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases are donated to the charitable organization of your choice. Everything about the Amazon online shopping experience stays the same, including the shopping cart, wishlists and shipping options.

Support LitWorld by shopping at AmazonSmile. Here's how:

1. Head to smile.amazon.com and log in with the same email address and password as your regular Amazon account, or open a new account if you are a first time shopper. Note: Your purchases must be made through smile.amazon.com to be eligible for a charitable donation.

2. On your first visit to AmazonSmile, you will be prompted to select a charitable organization to receive donations from eligible purchases before you begin shopping. Type LitWorld in the search box. The search result will return "LitWorld International Inc." Click "select."

AmazonSmile will remember your selection, and every eligible purchase you make will result in a donation. You may also want to add a bookmark to AmazonSmile to make it even easier to return and start your shopping at AmazonSmile.

The Story of a Movement for the World's Girls

The stories you shared with us at LitWorld on the Day of the Girl have made our #standup4girls movement stronger than ever.

Click here to see photos from Stand Up for Girls celebrations around the world.

Click here to see our global community honoring the women and girls whose stories have changed their world.

Visit the Stand Up for Girls blog to watch videos and to read stories from global Day of the Girl events.

Your next big opportunity to Stand Up with LitWorld for literacy as a human right is World Read Aloud Day on March 5, 2014. Register today and check back in mid-November for free activity and event planning packages.

LitWorld Launches Story21: Technology for 21st Century Learning

LitWorld has launched a family LitClub program called Story21 with our partner in Harlem, Broadway Housing Communities, to provide tablet technology, mentorship, and guidance to families as they embark on the path to 21st century literacy. Using the LitClub model, Story21 will integrate the power of story and personal narrative with apps and technology to engage families in literacy growth.

We are tremendously grateful for generous donations from Storypanda and SNAP! Learning and Scholastic. SNAP! donated a subscription to their ebook collection, providing ebooks that children and their caregivers will read together to build lasting, joyful memories. Storypanda donated book apps that allow children to read and then creatively manipulate picture books. Scholastic donated an incredible 300 Storia eBooks from their trove of children's literature. We cannot wait to use both of these in our upcoming sessions. Visit the LitClub blog to follow our Story21 journey.

Today is the International Day of the Girl. Stand Up at Noon.

Stand Up for the woman or girl who inspires you.

Stand Up for the 66 million girls around the world who are out of school.

Wherever you are, rally your community, in person and online, and stand up together for your global sisters.

Stand Up for all the girls in our LitClubs around the world, who so hunger to read and write.

Stand Up for Malala Yousafzai, the girl who fights for education, and winner of the European Union Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.

Stand Up because recognizing that everyone in the world has a story is how peace begins.