About Us

Reading Partners is a nonprofit literacy organization that recruits and trains community volunteers to provide one-on-one reading tutoring to students in under-resourced schools across the country. Our highly-effective program has helped thousands of children master the fundamental reading skills they need to succeed in school and beyond.


Be a hero. Become a volunteer tutor. You can make a difference in a child’s life with just one hour a week. Become a Reading Partners tutor and spread the gift of literacy, the gift of opportunity. Learn more.

“Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.”


-President Bill Clinton