Support the Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundationโs mission to help all Houstonians learn to read
The Foundation is celebrating 10 years of carrying out Barbara Bushโs mission to ensure all adults and children are given the opportunities needed to learn to read. You can help by supporting their many outreach programs including My Home Library, the UH Cougar Tutor program, Camp Adventure, the Curiosity Cruiser, Success Through Adult Reading, and George and Barbara Bush Family Places. To help, go to www.barbarabushhouston.org
Houston Rockets, Reliant and Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation hosting annual book drive
HOUSTON โ Throughout the month of March, the Houston Rockets and the Rockets Womenโs Organization are partnering up with Reliant for the fifth annual โHTX Reads Book Drive,โ benefiting the Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation. This year Houstonians can support childhood literacy virtually by texting โBookDriveโ to 91999, or visiting bushhoustonliteracy.org/bookdrive. In addition to donating money or books, Houstonians are encouraged to celebrate National Read Aloud Month by making reading with their children a daily habit and using #HTXReads when sharing photos on social media. Watch as Lauren Kelly chats with Julie Baker Finck, President, Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation, Felicia Stone, Houston Rockets Womenโs Organization, and Leanne Schneider, Director Of Community Relations at Reliant about how you can support this wonderful event.
โShe would love this dayโ: Neil Bush says Barbara Bush would be โthrilledโ with just-announced Houston city literacy effort
HOUSTON โ Neil Bush, founder and co-chair of the Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation, said his mom be โthrilledโ seeing that an effort to combat illiteracy among children and adults was announced in Houston on Tuesday. โSheโs been a passionate advocate for literacy just generally, but specifically for adult literacy. Adult literacy is critical for breaking the intergenerational cycle of low literacy and poverty in this city.โBarbara Bush died at the age of 92 in April 2018. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, along with the Mayorโs Office for Adult Literacy and the Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation, announced the joint initiative to increase adult literacy rates in the city with the opening of the Mayorโs Office for Adult Literacy. In addition to Turner, the newly-announced director of the Mayorโs Office for Adult Literacy Federico Salas-Isnardi spoke, as well as Bush, Cat Tramuto Tobin, manager at Deloitte.
Creating a stronger Houston through the power of literacy
HOUSTON โ Houston is facing a literacy crisis. According to research from the Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation, one in three Houston-area adults canโt read or write beyond a fourth-grade level. Illiteracy has become a multi-generational issue impacting all areas of the economy, but there is a strategic plan in place to change Houstonโs literacy landscape. Nearly 30% of Houston-area third-graders fail to meet the minimum reading standards. The goal is to enrich the lives of more and more Houstonians through the power of literacy.