The Maryland Family Literacy Initiative

The Foundation's Maryland Family Literacy Initiative supports nonprofit organizations, public school systems, municipal agencies and educational institutions working to improve family literacy rates across the state of Maryland.  Grantees are announced each spring at the Maryland Celebration of Reading, a special event sponsored by the Maryland Family Literacy Initiative.

2010 Maryland Grants Announced

The Maryland Initiative has awarded almost $470,000 in new grants to support family literacy programs across the State of Maryland.  Read the press release and learn about this year's grantees HERE.

UPDATED: Ambassador of Literacy: USS George H. W. Bush 

Doro Bush Koch, founder of The Maryland Initiative of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy is partnering the Foundation with the USS George H. W. Bush CVN77 to put on the first Celebration of Reading at Sea on May 1, 2010.  As the ship sponsor, Doro, decided that literacy would be a part of the fabric of this great ship as reading, and literacy in all its forms, are at the heart of what it means to be truly free. In short, reading is freedom. To read more about the Celebration of Reading at Sea and how the USS George H. W. Bush is serving as the Ambassador of Literacy, click HERE.

Were you at last year's "Celebration of Reading Maryland"?
View the 2009 "red carpet" interviews with Doro Koch Bush, Tricia Reilly Koch, guest authors, and more HERE.
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