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Community Partnerships

ReadFresno works with other organizations to inspire a love of reading in children. By collaborating with organizations, non-profits, faith- and community-based organizations, and other institutions, the program which began with four schools in March 2005, has quickly expanded to twenty-nine by March 2008. 

Fresno County Office of Education
  • Grants
  • Referrals to Foundations
  • Public Service Announcements
  • Partnership in After-School Programs
  • Partnership in Preschool Programs
  • Laptop Computer
  • Print Services
  • Superintendent Powell’s Public Endorsement  
Fresno Unified School District
  • Staff Person
  • Grant
  • Book Carts
  • Fingerprinting
  • Partnership in After-School Programs
  • Assessment/Evaluation
  • Print Services
  • Mail Services
  • Superintendent Hansen’s Public Endorsement  
California State University Fresno
  • Resources from Service-Learning Department
  • Marketing Teams
  • Volunteer Readers
  • President Welty’s Public Endorsement  
Fresno Pacific University
  • Literacy Professors and Reading Specialists as Advisory Council
  • Book Drives
  • President Ewert’s Public Endorsement  
Other Literacy Organizations
  • Fresno County Public Library:  Parent Literacy Clinics; PR Events; Grant writing
  • Reading and Beyond:  Grant writing; Coordination of Services
  • Reach Out and Read:  Coordination of Services
  • Wise Old Owl:  Receiving Books from ReadFresno  
Other Non-Profits
  • Parenting Partners:  Grant writing; Coordination of Services
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters:  Grant writing; Coordination of Services
  • Barrios Unidos:  Grant writing; Coordination of Services; Volunteer Readers
  • First 5:  Grant
  • SALT Fresno:  Marketing ReadFresno
  • Every Neighborhood Project:  Giving Books to ReadFresno
  • MOPS & Teen MOPS:  Literacy Instruction
  • United Way of Fresno County:  Collaboration with Wide Range of Non-Profits
Faith-Based Community
  • Churches:  Volunteers; Book Drives; Use of Space for Parent English Classes
  • No Name Fellowship:  Recruitment of Church Partners
  • Child Evangelism Fellowship:  Cross Referrals and Recruitment
  • CARE Fresno & CARE Fresno County:  Plans to Share Books, Train Volunteers
  • One By One Leadership:  Housing; Fiscal Services; Partial Funding
 Fundraising Foundation
  • Friends of ReadFresno: 
  • Annual Party & Auction Business Leaders:  Procurement of Donations
  • Grant writers