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The Denison University students who brought their strength and spirit to our Ohio Magazine Literacy Bank this week remind us how powerfully young people fuel our literacy moonshot. They filledContinueContinue reading “In the land of Johnny Appleseed, the Wright brothers and John Glenn, Denison University and area colleges fuel our literacy moonshot”

Separated by 500 miles but united in a love of reading, a National Geographic collector and a comic book collector met at MagLiteracy this month to share their treasured volumesContinueContinue reading “A Tale of Two Collections: Treasured Donations Support MagLiteracy Mission”

Greetings from Madison and our dedicated core group of volunteers — Ken Johnson, Kris Schwartz, Mark Krueger and Ginny Nachreiner. Here is a recap of recent donations we made to terrific local partner organizations to promote literacy among the children and adults they serve.

Building and filling our literacy pipeline is an enormous logistics lift that is only achievable with the commitment, investment and partnership of outstanding companies who believe in our mission.

More than a million magazines in Central Ohio are bypassing landfills to promote literacy in the state, nation and beyond.

Join us as we set the stage for a transformative year. Together, we can create a future where the power of the printed word elevates communities, sparks change and builds a more literate world.

At the end of 2024, MagLiteracy celebrated an incredible achievement 30 years in the making — placing Literacy Newsstands stocked with beautiful magazines for all ages into a supermarket-size food pantry market.

2024 brought a wave of remarkable momentum and progress at MagLiteracy, as we formed fruitful literacy partnerships, grew our volunteer ranks and launched impactful new initiatives for eager readers.

Your 2024 support lays a solid foundation for the kick off of our 2025 mission, empowering us to connect more magazines with children, families, veterans and educators who rely on us for access to impactful reading materials.

Sue is loading up her car trunk once again for a journey to deliver Highlights for Children, National Wildlife Foundation Zoobooks and other children’s magazines from the MagLiteracy.org Magazine LiteracyContinueContinue reading “A road trip into the Ohio Appalachian foothills to break child illiteracy. “

Across the entire magazine supply chain from paper to printer to publisher and consumer, MagLiteracy.org uniquely sits at the intersection of the enormous special power of print magazines for literacyContinueContinue reading “Enjoy summer magazine reading and pass it on”

Dear Friends – MagLiteracy.org is at an existential fork in our amazing journey – our moonshot. One path leads to achieving everything we set out to be. Please read throughContinueContinue reading “Can MagLiteracy.org Exist?”

Call to action: There is a children’s reading crisis in the USA that started before the pandemic and has been worsened by it. Most children in poverty have zero booksContinueContinue reading “America is facing a children’s reading crisis”

When meeting someone new, you look for common threads to begin a relationship. Preparing for a call with fragrance expert Shahzad HAIDER, I searched for that common ground. We knowContinueContinue reading “The nose knows”

Our hearts, spirit, attention, and support remain steadfast with the heroic and proud people of Ukraine. Andrii Vdovychenko is the CEO & Owner of Burda Media Ukraine. He has providedContinueContinue reading “Freedom.”

The Magazine Literacy Bank in Johnstown, outside Columbus, Ohio, receives magazines recycled by consumers, publishers, and newsstands for delivery to at-risk readers via our teams and literacy partners in Ohio, Mississippi, Wisconsin,ContinueContinue reading “Muskingum County Literacy Council expands our reach down the last mile”

The 2 Billion+ magazines printed each year for US readers would create a stack 37 million feet high, or 7000+ miles into space, 107 times further than Bezos or Branson.ContinueContinue reading “March Madness”

Thank you to all the volunteers and supporters who came out to the Magazine Literacy Bank at the Atrium Company warehouse in Johnstown, Ohio, just outside Columbus, Saturday. People droppedContinueContinue reading “A great day of volunteer recycling, sorting, packing, and machine learning at the Magazine Literacy Bank”

By Joe Hinds Odyssey Junior is one part of the larger University of Wisconsin formed at UW-Madison in 2015. The Odyssey Project gives adult students facing economic hardships, and otherContinueContinue reading “Odyssey Junior Program Nurtures Young Minds”