Reading Partners has been a part of the Colorado educational landscape since 2012, when Mile High United Way leveraged a federal Social Innovation Fund grant to help ensure more Colorado children could read proficiently by third grade.

We’ve paired thousands of community volunteers in low-income schools to help kids master basic reading skills and narrow their achievement gaps. Our one-on-one tutoring empowers students to succeed while simultaneously empowering volunteers to make a lasting difference in our community through individualized personal attention to each student in our program.

Reading Partners Colorado currently serves students in 13 schools in Denver. Visit our volunteer page to learn more about how you can become a reading partner.

Explore Reading Partners’ impact in Colorado:

• 2019-20 impact & innovation report: Tutoring shortened by COVID-19
• 2018-19 impact report: Last full year of student progress results

By The Numbers

  86% of K-2 students developing mastery of key foundational reading skills needed to read at grade level (2018-19)

13 Reading Centers (2019-20))  

685 Students (2019-20)

963 Volunteers (2019-20)