Mission Statement: Growing Readers for Life!

CLN’s mission is to design and implement literacy-based programs to provide equitable opportunities for children to develop a love of reading and books. We are a volunteer-based nonprofit agency dedicated to closing the book and reading achievement gap to keep under-resourced students from falling further behind. We accomplish this mission through innovative programming at the early childhood and school-age levels.

 CLN’s Anti-Discrimination Statement:

Children’s Literacy Network condemns all forms of racism and discrimination and commits to leading from an anti-discrimination disposition by naming, addressing, and taking the necessary steps to eradicate all forms of oppression.

For CLN to achieve our mission to provide equitable access to books and develop a love of reading in all children we make an intentional and active commitment to racial equity. Communities of color experience striking social and economic disparities. The causes are rooted within a deeper historical context of trauma, inequality, and abusive institutional structures and barriers. Racial discrimination at all levels - individual, institutional, and instructional - has denied opportunities for communities to thrive on their own terms. An intentional and active commitment to racial equity is integral to CLN’s efforts to build a more just, inclusive, and prosperous region for all of our priority communities.