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Literacy for a Lifetime
Partnering
with Businesses for our Future
Literacy for a Lifetime™ is a matching grant
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.
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How it Works
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Donations are made to the educational
institution, which are then forwarded to EDC for the matching grant
portion. |
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Donations made to the educational
institution are tax deductible to corporations, individuals, and
foundations. |
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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. |
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The organization receiving the books
has full control over their selection of Usborne books, from an array of
over 1,400 titles. |
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The matching grant program can be used
as often as donations/grants become available. There is no cap on the
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Who are Potential Recipients?
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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.
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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.
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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
Debbie@UsborneCorner.com
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