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- Begin With Books
- Big Ideas@Berkeley 2014/15 Prize
- Big Ideas@Berkeley 2015/16 Prize
- Book Boost: Access for All Challenge
- EduApp4Syria Prize
- Enabling Writers Prize
- Grant Competition 2011
- Grant Competition 2014
- Leaders for Literacy
- No Lost Generation Summit Tech Prize
- Ready2Read Challenge
- Sign On For Literacy Prize
- Technology to Support Education in Crises & Conflict Prize
- Tracking & Tracing Books Prize
- UnrestrICTed Challenge
… results in Books in Underserved Languages.
First Winners of Library of Congress Literacy Awards Announced
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has chosen the winners of the 2013 Library of Congress Literacy Awards, a new program originated and sponsored by philanthropist David M. Rubenstein.
The Silent Crisis in Timor-Leste’s Development Trajectory
As International Literacy Day approaches, the matter of literacy remains an enormous challenge around the world, including in Asia’s youngest nation, Timor-Leste.
Monitoring And Evaluation: Keys To Improving Literacy In Africa
Worldreader’s large-scale projects always involve considerable monitoring and evaluation to examine how e-readers and access to digital books help children read more and read better.
Digitizing Education
An interview with Catherine Oliver Smith, COO and Co-Founder of ACR GCD innovator Urban Planet Mobile, on International Women's Day.
Whiz Kids / Bruktawit Tigabu
Whiz Kids Workshop shares their ACR GCD-funded innovation to create and distribute TV, audio and print materials to early grade students in Ethiopia.
The Asia Foundation and Fundasaun Alola Launch All Children Reading Project with Support from USAID
The Asia Foundation, in partnership with Fundasaun Alola, has launched the All Children Reading (ACR) initiative, an 18-month project generously supported by the United States Agency for International
Molteno Institute for Language and Literacy / Masennya Phineas Dikotla
Molteno Institute for Language and Literacy shares their ACR GCD-funded innovation to provide interactive edtech solutions to improve reading skills of early grade children in South Africa.
Ghana-based NGO wins international award
The Olinga Foundation for Human Development (OFHD), a non-governmental organisation based in Ghana, has won an international award.
Save the Children Malawi / Lexon Ndalama
Save the Children Malawi shares their ACR GCD-funded innovation to develop low-cost reading materials and engage families to improve child literacy in Malawi.
USAID Launches Reading Project for Young Students in Haiti
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched a project to promote reading among young students in Haiti.
Faces of the Grand Challenge
ACR GCD celebrates innovators from around the world that submitted more than 450 ideas to the 2012 grant competition to improve early grade literacy of children in low-resource contexts.
Malawi Timawerenga! We Can Read!
Timawerenga! We Can Read! responds to the critical need for sufficient quantities of low-cost, appropriate and effective mother-tongue reading materials for primary school students in grades 1 and 2.
Olinga Foundation for Human Development / Leslie Casely-Hayford
Olinga Foundation for Human Development shares their ACR GCD-funded innovation to implement a new phonic and syllabic approach for teaching children in Ghana to read in their local language.
USAID and Partners launch programme to improve early grade reading
The U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission in Ghana, Pat Alsup, launched the initiative with a forum where the All Children Reading Grand Challenge awardees for Ghana presented their winning concepts.
ACR GCD Innovator Spotlight Webinar: Lubuto Library Project & Georgia State University
Learn from ACR GCD-funded innovators Lubuto Library Project and Georgia State University about projects to improve reading outcomes for children in Zambia and South Africa.
A Helping Hand for Mother-Tongue Texts
Imagine how difficult it would have been for you to learn to read if, upon entering school, the only books available were written in a foreign language.
Ustad Mobile
Create and deliver interactive learning content with quizzes, text, images, audio, and video.
The Bollywood Solution: Making Reading ‘Inescapable’
Much of television programming aimed at young people has earned a dubious reputation for turning the minds of the world’s children into wastelands.
USAID All Children Reading Literacy Day Event
Learn from ACR GCD-funded innovator Lubuto Library Project about their creation of high-quality digital reading materials in local languages in Zambia.
Qué Funciona para el Desarrollo / Arturo Aguilar
ACR GCD-funded innovator Qué Funciona para el Desarrollo shares their innovation to create community libraries for children and workshops to help support children's reading in Mexico City.
