All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development

It's time to join in the All Children Reading Grand Challenge!

Evidence shows that learning to read at an early age is one of the strongest indicators that a person will develop the skills they need to lead a healthy life, earn a productive salary, and contribute positively to the economic growth of a community. Yet millions of students today are finishing primary school without being able to read basic words. We need game-changing solutions that increase the availability and effectiveness of literacy teaching and learning materials and that improve education data for accountability and smarter decision-making. The opportunity before us has never been more clear: We need to harness the creative, practical, and inventive powers of the crowd- yes, that's you- to generate significantly better results for children. Here's how you can participate today.  

1) Submit your idea to address childhood literacy by applying for the challenge. Applications will be accepted through January 31st at 2 pm EST/19:00 GMT. Visit http://www.allchildrenreading.org/apply to learn about the application guidelines and eligibility requirements. You can download the Request for Applications (RFA) with full guidelines here. We have also attached a brief overview of the RFA (please use the entire RFA to guide your submissions). Organizations with winning submissions will be eligible for as much as $300,000, provided by USAID, AusAID, and World Vision.

The competition is open for submissions now until January 31st  at 2pm EST/ 19:00 GMT

2) Spread the word about the All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development competition! And encourage people to submit! Don't be shy. Share the challenge website and mission with your friends, families, media contacts, and colleagues via Facebook, Twitter (#allchildrenreading, #usaid), other social networking sites, your university connections, and regular community outlets. Your network may include people and organizations who can help us to achieve better results together.

Visit the website to learn more: www.AllChildrenReading.org    

Join the movement today to get All Children Reading!