Empower at-risk elementary students in Dallas, TX to break the cycle of educational inequality by ensuring they read on grade level by third grade—transforming futures and building lifelong success. Every year, over 2,500 children face barriers that threaten their academic confidence and future employment prospects. Your support provides vital reading interventions, personalized tutoring, and early literacy programs that turn struggle into strength, hope into achievement, and potential into reality.

Through innovative, research-based strategies, Catch Up & Read directly impacts children’s lives—helping them develop critical literacy skills that open doors to success in school, work, and community. Since 2010, we have served more than 10,000 students, partnering with local schools and community organizations to deliver proven programs that boost reading levels by an average of two grade levels within a year. Your donation helps us expand these efforts, reach more children, and ensure no child is left behind due to poverty or early learning gaps.

Together, we can create a future where every child in Dallas has the dignity of literacy, the hope of a brighter tomorrow, and the empowerment to realize their full potential. Your immediate support fuels this breakthrough—help us close the literacy gap, ignite confidence, and ensure that every child’s story ends with success. Join us today in transforming lives through the power of reading—because every donation is a lifeline for a child’s future.

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