Better World Books and the National Center for Family Literacy can help you wrap up great gifts this holiday season while racking up much needed support for literacy.

The Read Together— Catch a Dream project is the latest successful program that NCFL has built through its long-term relationship with the federal Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). “The stepping stone to overcoming the intractable and systemic obstacles for American Indians can be summed up in two words— family literacy,” NCFL president and founder Sharon Darling said.

NCFL is partnering with the Points of Light Foundation’s “We Are Family” project, an all-star remake of the popular Sister Sledge hit. The project is designed to benefit organizations that assist families, including those who were displaced by the hurricanes of 2005.

In a nearly empty gymnasium at Chattahoochee Valley Community College, Gina Di Napoli-Davis sat on the floor sorting through about 1,000 books she collected for a book drive to benefit the National Center for Family Literacy.

“March of the Penguins” teaches that families can succeed even during the harshest journeys — so does Washington, D.C., educator Mark Faloni. That’s why Hallmark Channel, which will present the U.S. television premiere of the 2006 Academy Award-winning movie, “March of the Penguins,” announced today that it is honoring Faloni for his work in family literacy.

Testifying to the power of family literacy, Raynice Brumfield of Washington, D.C., spoke words of encouragement to about 100 people gathered recently for a press conference to celebrate the Toyota Family Literacy Program (TFLP), the latest effort to increase literacy in the city's southeast section.

Twenty-three teams recently competed in the fourth annual Louisville Technology Acronym Bee (LTAB) raising a record $17,000 for the Louisville-headquartered National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL).

Successful partnerships produce meaningful results. Like getting more than 10,000 books into the hands of Gulf Coast region children seeking a sense of normalcy after the Hurricane Katrina devastation.

A challenging economy and a growing awareness of the nation’s literacy crisis has prompted a surge of interest in literacy-related volunteerism.  Noting the continuing trend, NCFL identified a need to study and measure the effectiveness of volunteers in the family literacy setting and to provide programs with enhanced tools to maximize their capacity to work with volunteers.