Innovators

Innovators

Explore ACR GCD’s community of more than 80 innovators to learn more about their creative solutions to get all children reading.

Featured Innovators

ILC Africa
Introducing 400 Talking Books into 50 Early Childhood Development centers in rural Malawi to contribute to pre-literacy skills of children ages 4-6 years old.
Competition
Ready2Read Challenge
Amount Awarded
up to $300,000
Winner Status
Winner
Rochester Institute of Technology/National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Competition
Ready2Read Challenge
Amount Awarded
up to $300,000
Winner Status
Winner
The Asia Foundation
Providing children and their family members in Nepal with an evidence- and UDL-based approach that sparks curiosity and increases oral language and pre-reading skills
Competition
Ready2Read Challenge
Amount Awarded
up to $300,000
Winner Status
Winner

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Save the Children Malawi
Accelerating children’s reading by training teachers and non-literate parents on activities to do at home to improve their children’s language skills
Competition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
Save the Children Sri Lanka
Improving reading skills of children with special needs using by providing teaching and learning materials and assessment tools to teachers and resources and training for families
Competition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
Sesame Workshop Initiatives India Pvt. Ltd.
Conducting ‘Learn to Read, Read to Learn’ workshops to assist teachers in using innovative and digital learning materials and to help children improve their oral reading fluency
Competition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
Step by Step Benevolent Foundation
Influencing the Armenian education system by developing and testing a set of informal literacy assessments to better inform future literacy instruction
Competition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
University of Nairobi ComTech
Using an early grade reading instruction curriculum (EGRIC), in print and electronic format, to provide teachers with high quality reading instruction materials and resources in English and Kiswahili
Competition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
Urban Planet Mobile
Delivering daily SMS reading lessons to adult caregivers through mobile devices to help develop their child’s literacy
Competition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner

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