Why Become a Boon Donor
Our nation faces a literacy crisis. Millions of children—especially those from low-income backgrounds and children of color—are falling further behind each day. These children aren’t receiving the reading instruction they need (and that wealthier families can afford), which often leads to devastating consequences, not just for the students but for our country—including persistent poverty, higher unemployment, increased incarceration, and lower civic engagement.
Private philanthropy has a huge opportunity to improve this situation. Any donation, no matter the size, combines with others to help train a teacher or tutor a low-income student and help reverse the reading crisis.
Boon has a fundraising platform that combines donations from people across America to support and fund SOR Teacher Training Scholarships for training in the science of reading and Pledge Literacy Interventions, a program that offers free, expert, personalized instruction by Wilson Certified Level 1 & 2 teachers to children from impoverished and marginalized families who might not otherwise access such services.
By becoming a Boon Donor, you join a nationwide community of like-minded supporters of education—teachers, parents, and concerned citizens—who believe that effective reading is a vital gateway skill. It provides access to greater knowledge and stronger communication skills, which are essential for a student’s ability to succeed in the 21st-century workplace.
More Reasons to Give to Boon:
- Gifts from $5 to $100 are matched by other major donors who want your small gift to have a significant impact.
- Donors of all gift sizes can join a nationwide, large-scale, coordinated annual campaign that secures ongoing funding, raising significantly more money than ad hoc local or single-organization efforts.
- Pooled gifts strengthen our combined and proactive effort to end the reading crisis, increasing our influence, leadership, and impact.
- Boon’s leadership brings over 85 years of experience in making substantial charitable donations to nonprofit organizations.
- By partnering with well-known and respected organizations across the US, we not only achieve scale but also promote best practices in the science of reading, helping them gain more traction within the education community and beyond.
- We thoroughly vet and trust the organizations and professionals we fund, and we closely track their progress. Each training organization has a proven track record of success with both past and current scholarship training. Every Pledge tutor has honed their expert-level skills through hours of coursework, practicums, and experience as teachers and tutors, thanks to the rigorous demands of Wilson Language Training.
- Boon achieves a lasting impact by working on a national scale.
- Boon conducts ongoing research and analysis to continuously improve our efforts and address the reading crisis.
Your personal gift will help fund teacher training scholarships or free tutorial interventions for low-income students.
Boon’s online giving platform allows contributors across the country to come together and tackle our reading crisis by supporting individual teachers and students impacted by a broken education system—not “some day,” but “now.”
100% of donations to Boon’s two education programs go straight to those programs.
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