$6.5 million request would expand vital literacy programming for the youngest New Yorkers  The partners of the City’s First Readers (CFR) initiative and Council Member Jennifer Gutiérrez will host a rally on City Hall steps calling for $6.5 million in funding to support early childhood literacy programming in the Fiscal 2025 Adopted Budget. CFR harnesses […]

Photography by Matthew Sussman. Wow, what a night! Thank you to everyone who made LINC’s 2024 Spring Gala a huge success. We raised over $775,000 and counting to continue helping thousands of young children become lifelong readers! Watch the video we shared at the gala, featuring our incredible volunteer and LINC Very Involved Parent (VIP), Sandra Patricio. We were joined […]

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On Saturday, April 20, Literacy in Community (LINC) and Fidelis Care concluded our 4th annual Diversity Through Literacy campaign with resounding success at the Bronx Library Center!  LINC’s Diversity Through Literacy campaign recognizes the power of children’s literature to celebrate diversity in all forms and sharing different cultures is only one of the ways we do […]

A big thank you to our friends at Encantos for their continued support of the work we do to empower families as they build a strong foundation of early literacy skills with their children.  Encantos is a children’s educational and entertainment company with a purpose and a generous corporate partner. Encantos has donated hundreds of books […]

Please join us in welcoming our newest class of Very Involved Parents (VIPs), hailing from our LINC neighborhood in South Jamaica, Queens! On Wednesday, February 14th, LINC staff and caregivers gathered together in the library of P.S. 48Q The David N. Dinkins School for a graduation ceremony honoring a group of LINC volunteers who are […]

“I have known all my life that building and strengthening communities is one of the best ways to help children, my own and everyone else’s.”– Mimi Levin Lieber This year was marked with many milestones for Literacy in Community (LINC)!  We paid tribute to our founder, Mimi Levin Lieber, by embracing the word “community” in […]

April is Diversity Month and we are thrilled to launch our latest PIX 11 Public Service Announcement (PSA) as we begin our 4th annual Diversity Through Literacy campaign! Since 2021, Literacy in Community (LINC) has partnered with Fidelis Health Care to present Diversity Through Literacy, an annual campaign recognizing the power children’s literature has to […]

We know that families are busy and there isn’t always time to sit down and read a book, which is why City’s First Readers (CFR)* helps families find ways to bring reading activities into daily chores and provides a wide variety of free and fun literacy programs across the five boroughs. There is a CFR […]

Literacy in Community (LINC), an early childhood literacy non-profit, and Fidelis Care, a New York State health plan, announced its fourth year of the Diversity Through Literacy campaign. Started in 2021, Diversity Through Literacy is an annual campaign recognizing the power of children’s literature to celebrate diversity in all forms by representing unheard voices, embracing […]

On Wednesday, March 6 LINC’s dynamic Content & Delivery Team made history again with their annual Wear Your Crown virtual program. Wear Your Crown is a special event that takes place every March in honor of Women’s History Month and pays tribute to all of the women in our lives.  This year’s program included a bilingual […]

Literacy in Community (LINC) has proudly served as the facilitating partner of the NYC Reads Initiative since its inception in 2014. With the inspired support of the Pinkerton Foundation and the additional contributions of The Carmel Hill Fund, NYC Reads has successfully built a continuum of literacy programming, from infancy through 5th grade. Each of […]

Continuing a long and strong tradition of meeting over the Presidents’ Day weekend, the 53rd Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Caucus convened in Albany starting February 16th. LINC recognizes the essential role that our New York State legislators play in setting the city’s education agenda and we were there to remind policymakers that learning […]

On February 21st, LINC’s Community Engagement Specialist, Arisbel Villa and Director of Community Mobilization, Corey Saxton joined the Bronx Senate Delegation Budget Forum and urged New York State leaders to make early literacy and early education top programmatic and funding priorities for the upcoming budget cycle. Let’s create mandates and resources that will foster greater […]

Shortly after announcing her three-point plan to improve literacy levels in her 2024 State of the State address, Governor Hochul appeared at the Bronx Children’s Museum to highlight her child care and affordability proposals.  LINC’s Senior Director of Family & Community Engagement and Bronx resident, Albania Jimenez was there and spoke briefly with the Governor about […]

As we enter the Year of the Dragon, our East Harlem team enthusiastically breathed fire into the passions of young readers. On Thursday, February 8, with the support of our longtime collaborators at East Harlem Tutorial Program (EHTP), LINC delivered an unforgettable afternoon of stories, food, crafts, and music to dozens of families and two […]

On Friday morning, February 16, LINC families gathered at P.S.85 Great Expectations School in the Fordham section of The Bronx to be part of an explosive reading experience! P.S. 85 had just completed a monumental book challenge with their pre-K through second-grade students – reading one book per day for a total of 85 days. […]

On Wednesday morning, February 14, over 16 local Washington Heights families joined LINC and Fidelis Care for a new kind of Valentine’s Day celebration: Reading with Love! LINC’s joyful early literacy programs are always infused with love but yesterday, they honored the many different bonds and memories we form with others and the unique role […]

On Saturday, February 10, 2024, Literacy in Community joined over 300 attendees from 20 different grassroots organizations for Councilmember Carmen De La Rosa’s inaugural Uptown People’s Assembly–a groundbreaking event rooted in the principles of co-governance and participatory democracy.  Councilmember De La Rosa’s District 10 includes three LINC communities: Kingsbridge, Washington Heights, and Inwood, Seven LINC […]