This post is by Judy Lee of the Library of Congress.
The Library of Congress is proud to announce the Kislak Family Foundation’s generous gift to expand the scope of the Library’s Literacy Awards Program in 2024.
The program establishes a new annual Kislak Family Foundation Prize in the amount of $100,000 to recognize an organization in the United States or abroad with an outsized impact on literacy relative to its size or years of operation.
Additionally, the gift will allow the Library to double the award amount for the Successful Practices Honoree Prize. Beginning in 2024, each Successful Practices Honoree recipient will receive $10,000, a $5,000 increase from previous years. Up to 15 organizations may be selected.
The Kislak Family Foundation’s gift also establishes the Emerging Strategies Honorees Prize which will recognize up to 5 literacy initiatives that are in their early stages of development that demonstrate significant creativity and promise in their approach to promoting literacy. Each Emerging Strategies Honorees recipient will receive $5,000.
Finally, the gift allows the Literacy Awards Program to hold three regional conferences focusing on successful practices which will foster a sense of community, celebration, and information-sharing across past and present Literacy Awards winners and honorees.
More information about how to apply for the new award categories will become available here on or around January 8, 2024.
The Library of Congress is grateful to the Kislak Family Foundation for making this initiative possible.
About the Awards
The Library of Congress Literacy Awards Program honors nonprofit organizations that have made outstanding contributions to increasing literacy in the United States or abroad. The awards also encourage the continuing development of successful methods for promoting literacy and the wide dissemination of the most effective practices. They are intended to draw public attention to the importance of literacy, and the need to promote literacy and encourage reading.
Since 2013, the Library of Congress Literacy Awards Program has awarded more than $3 million in prizes to over 180 institutions in 39 countries, thanks to the generosity of philanthropist and Madison Council Chairman David M. Rubenstein. Administered by the Library’s Professional Learning and Outreach Initiatives Office in the Center for Learning, Literacy & Engagement, the awards seek to enable any not-for-profit organization or program to strengthen its involvement in literacy and reading promotion and to encourage collaboration with like-minded organizations.
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