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Our vision at MagLiteracy is to leverage the special power of magazines to increase literacy to improve the lives of children and families who have limited access to reading materials.

MagLiteracy, a national program, increases literacy by supplying new and recycled magazines to readers who have limited access to reading materials. We partner with community and humanitarian organizations such as food pantries, shelters, and job training and youth mentoring programs to find and meet literacy needs. Consumers, publishers and retail newsstands donate new and recycled good quality magazines or donate funds so we are able to provide them at no cost.

Deliver literacy to end poverty.

Your $19 donation delivers a Literacy Box of 25+ magazines to a literacy newsstand at community and humanitarian organizations such as food pantries, shelters, and job training and youth mentoring programs for people who have limited access to reading materials. It’s so easy and feels great, and you will change lives for good. Tell your friends. 100% of your gift supports literacy. Thank you!

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Help Us Increase Literacy

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You can be part of solving a problem larger than ourselves. In the United States, nearly 10 million children, or 13.7% of the population under 18 years of age, live in poverty, according to 2023 U.S. Census Bureau statistics. Studies show that children from low-socioeconomic status families are less likely to have experiences and resources to develop fundamental literacy skills.

The National Center for Education Statistics reports that as of 2019, one in five U.S. adults — about 43 million people — possess low literacy skills, defined as the ability to understand, evaluate, use and engage with written texts to participate in society, achieve one’s goals and develop one’s knowledge and potential.

A child unable to read is a child lost. Adults unable to read were once children who didn’t learn how. With your help today, we are changing this.

Literacy ends poverty of the mind, heart and pocket. Reading is where it all begins.

Magazines are the most powerful literacy engines on Earth.

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Why are magazines so special for literacy? Promoting literacy establishes a lifelong reading habit. Think about this — with titles for every reading age, enthusiasm, professional aspiration and language, magazines can match exact literacy goals — like teaching science and engineering; mentoring a teen who loves cars, sports or fashion; culinary job training; or comforting a family experiencing homelessness.

Studies show that holding print reading materials in your hands increases learning. Magazines are familiar and not intimidating. Articles are visual and engaging with writing that is easy to read.

Magazines educate and inspire, spur curiosity to encourage learning and promote literacy to establish a lifelong reading habit. People who love magazines and love caring for others give us our special literacy superpower by investing their time, talent and treasure as volunteers, magazine recyclers and financial donors.