Major Grants Awarded to Read to Succeed Buffalo

Despite a difficult economy, three prominent local foundations
collaborate to promote literacy

Read to Succeed Buffalo recenetly announced that it has received a major financial commitment of $454,074 from three prominent local foundations.

In an unprecedented arrangement, the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, The Margaret L. Wendt Foundation and The John R. Oishei Foundation have pooled their resources in a Funders Collaborative to award the nearly half-million dollar gift. It is expected that the grant will make a substantial impact on efforts to improve literacy by supporting the operating budget of Read to Succeed Buffalo.

New Documentary Highlights Issue of Low Literacy

Read to Succeed Buffalo worked with filmaker Loren Sonnenberg to create the documentary Raising Literacy, Lifting Community about the issue of low literacy in Buffalo. The documentary was produced through Squeaky Wheel and funded by the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo. To learn more about the crisis of low literacy, play the video below.

Raising Literacy, Lifting Community and other literacy-related videos are also available on Vimeo.