About Us
Project READ is a coalition of public and private organizations working
together to build skilled workers, strong families, and healthy communities.

Through Project READ, over 35 literacy and basic skills providers, 83 schools
and tutoring sites in Montgomery, Greene, and Preble counties, and over 55 businesses and
community partners are committed to building literacy in the
Miami Valley.  Since July 1990, Project READ has been located at Sinclair
Community College in Dayton, Ohio. Project READ relies solely on grants
and individual gifts for financial support.


During the last year (FY07) Project READ:

  • Connected 1048 adult learners to free learning opportunities (GED, English for
    Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), basic, and workplace literacy)

  • Referred 430 adults to volunteer programs, tutor training, or literacy-based          
    volunteer activities

  • Collaborated with community and business partners in presenting over 28
    community and family literacy awareness events, including the READing Festival, the
    GRIMMY Awards, READing Jamboree, and the Concert for Literacy reaching more
    than 10,000 people with the literacy message

  • Distributed over 7,000 new books to adults and children in the Greater Dayton Area
    donated by publishers and through volunteer-driven book drives

  • Literacy*AmeriCorps Dayton Service Members contributed 12,250 hours of literacy
    education services to the Greater Dayton community, teaching more than 450 adults in
    GED, ESOL, or basic skills development classes, and provided literacy tutoring             
    for 455 youth

  • 632 Miami Valley READS volunteers tutored 1,774 students - A recent study of this
    school-age student tutoring program showed that 71% of youth in the program achieved
    reading gains

Check the links below to learn more...

Community Literacy Board 2008
Coalition Members
Community & Business Partners
Participating Schools
Project READ is sponsored by the Ohio Department of Education, Montgomery County, City of
Dayton, Sinclair Community College, United Way of the Greater Dayton Area, gifts from businesses
and foundations, private contributors, and its member organizations.

Project READ is an active member of the Ohio Literacy Network.
Project READ, c/o Sinclair Community College, 444 W. Third St. Rm.6121, Dayton,OH 45402