Literacy for a Lifetime

Partnering with Businesses for our Future

Literacy for a Lifetime™ is a grant matching program partnering Educational Development Corporation (EDC) with businesses, foundations, and individuals to support local educational institutions. EDC is the leading publisher of children’s non-fiction books. EDC is proud to have developed the Literacy for a Lifetime program to support educational funding on the local level.

Literacy for a Lifetime offers a 50% grant matching in books for every dollar contributed. For example, a $10,000 donation is matched with an additional $5,000 and the organization of your choice receives $15,000 in educational materials for their use.

Literacy for a Lifetime can be used as often as donations become available, has no cap on the amount that can be donated and is tax deductible.

The receiving organization has full control over the selection of books.

Literacy for a Lifetime Information
 

For more information, please email or
call Debbie at (304) 534-7841 or
toll free (800) 298-7139.

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How it Works

	Donations are made to the educational institution, which are then forwarded to EDC for the matching grant portion.
	Donations made to the educational institution are tax deductible to corporations, individuals, and foundations.
	Donations of $200 or more will receive a 50% matching grant from EDC with Usborne books. For example, a $1,000 donation will result in $1,500 in Usborne books to the receiving organization.
	The organization receiving the books has full control over their selection of Usborne books, from an array of over 1,400 titles.
	The matching grant program can be used as often as donations/grants become available. There is no cap on the amount that can be donated or matched.

Who are Potential Recipients? Schools Libraries Head Start Programs Non-Profit Organizations Educational and Literacy Programs Hospitals Areas affected by natural disasters Click Here for Ordering Instructions The Facts: 90%   The amount of reading you will do as an adult for informational purposes           (vs. leisure).  (Scholastic Research) 85%    Juvenile offenders who are functionally illiterate. (National Institute of Corrections) 60%    Adult prisoners who are functionally illiterate.              (U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute on Corrections) 46%    Adults in the U.S. who fall into the lowest two levels of reading, making them functionally                illiterate, unable to read and comprehend the front page of the newspaper.              (National Assessment of Adult Literacy) 49th    The rank of the U.S. among the 156 United Nation member countries in its rate of literacy.              (United Nations) 25        A national poverty indicator is having fewer than 25 pieces of printed materials in the home. It takes only one decision to help.  One person making a difference.  One child's life that is changed forever, one book at a time.

EDC offers a large selection of quality educational books for school age children.  Subjects include internet-linked books on history, science, geography, and foreign language.  Fictions books are available in early readers and chapter books, and many are available in Spanish.

 

Literacy For A Lifetime is a program that can grow your grant or donation dollars and get books into the schools, hands, and homes of children throughout the country!

 

 

Company Information

 

· Educational Development Corporation (EDC), a Delaware corporation with its principal office in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is the sole U.S. distributor of Usborne Books, a line of children's books produced in the United Kingdom by Usborne Publishing Limited.
 

· Educational Development Corporation is a publicly traded company on NASDAQ (EDUC). We are dedicated to providing the best educational children's books available in the marketplace. The Usborne product line encompasses over 1,300 titles incorporating history, science, nature, beginning and juvenile readers and foreign languages plus much more. They are lavishly illustrated, award winning, critically acclaimed and are in widespread use in educational institutions as well as in the home.
 

· EDC was recognized as one of Fortune Small Business Magazine’s Top 100 Fastest Growing Small Public Companies in 2003 and 2005. EDC has also been recognized by Forbes magazines as of the 200 Best Small Companies in America.

For more information about Literacy for a Lifetime, contact:

Debbie Burget
(304) 534-7841 or (800) 298-7139
UsborneCorner@aol.com

Click Here for Ordering Instructions

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