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Established by current president Sharon Darling in 1989, the National Center for Family Literacy has pioneered educational initiatives that improve the lives of our nation’s most at-risk children and families.

By consistently finding new, progressive ways to reach and influence others, more than one million families have benefited from educational and economic gains as a result of NCFL’s work.

With the help of more than 150,000 teachers and thousands of other volunteers,
NCFL has used its evolving techniques to reach out and maximize the effectiveness of local programs and organizations. By working together, we’ve seen how important it is to build upon this community cycle of learning: from teacher to student, and most importantly from parent to child. When we capitalize on the strengths of families and the flexibility of the family literacy approach, NCFL is better able to respond to the changing needs and demographics of underserved populations. And not just on a community level. Literacy initiatives and programs have been seeing results on the local, state and national levels benefit from the efforts of NCFL.

To put it simply, family literacy works.