On June 16, 2023, we welcomed to the LINC community the newest graduates of our Very Involved Parents (VIP) program. 22 parents, caretakers, and role models joined our network of VIPs bringing the power of early literacy to their homes and neighborhoods. Designed as a four-part workshop series, the VIP program equips participants with knowledge […]

LINC recognizes Juneteenth – a day to celebrate African American’s contributions and reflect on the systemic injustices that are still rampant in our society today. Juneteenth marks the date, June 19, 1865, when approximately 250,000 Black enslaved people in Texas learned they had been liberated, released from bondage, nearly two and half long years after […]

Wow, what a night! Thank you to everyone who made LINC’s 2023 Spring Gala a huge success! We were joined by friends, colleagues, and supporters old and new to celebrate LINC Board member Jacqueline Kaiko and present the Mimi Levin Lieber Legacy Award to Diane Katzin and Richard Kurnit. A special thanks goes out to […]

On this special day, we want to express our deepest gratitude for the remarkable mothers among us. Your unwavering strength, compassion, and dedication inspire us all. Your ability to balance the demands of motherhood and work is nothing short of extraordinary. As you continue to nurture and guide your children, both at home and within […]

LINC is proud to stand with Speaker Adrienne Adams and many other early literacy advocates in championing the need to address critical shortcomings in New York City’s early childhood education system. Applications for 3-K increased by over 20% this year, and we cannot afford to disinvest from our children’s futures. Yesterday our Executive Director Shari […]

On Tuesday, March 21, LINC’s content and delivery team successfully presented Reading Begins with Hearing, the third session of LINC’s Learn N’ Play Workshops series for 4-5 year olds at PS89 in East New York, Brooklyn. These workshops are bilingual, given in both Spanish and English are met with enthusiasm from local children, like Dylan […]

On Saturday, April 29, over 50 families gathered at the Baisley Park Library in South Jamaica for a unique opportunity to read and roar like a dinosaur! That afternoon, NYCReads, the Queens Public Library, and the Lewis Latimer House Museum partnered to present A Spring STEAM Celebration and Dino Egg Hunt with special guest reader, […]

New York, NY March 24, 2023 – The New York City Reads Initiative, a collaboration of 11 organizations working together in East Harlem, East New York, and South Jamaica to improve outcomes for the children in their neighborhoods, and Brooks Olbrys, author of the children’s book series, The Adventures of Blue Ocean Bob, a picture […]

On April 6, LINC lost a true literacy advocate and role model for our families, Herman Pereira. Mr. Pereira was a pastor, a beloved member of the South Jamaica community, and a beacon for those who followed him both here in the United States and in his home country Guyana. As the father of LINC’s […]

It may have rained all weekend in New York City, but inside it was warm and cozy, and LINC families were thrilled to cuddle up with a new book. This past Saturday, April 29, LINC’s Diversity Through Literacy campaign took The Bronx and Staten Island by storm with guest authors and free books for children […]

It’s electric! LINC’s Diversity Through Literacy campaign has begun and the circuits are running! On Wednesday, April 26, children’s book author and illustrator, and LINC board member, Tracy Dockray lit up the room as she read Bright Dreams: The Brilliant Inventions of Nikola Tesla, her very own work, to over 50 online participants! The bilingual […]

NYCReads, a collaboration of 11 organizations working together in East New York, East Harlem, and South Jamaica, the Queens Public Library, and the Lewis Latimer House Museum are partnering to present Roar Like a Dinosaur, a Spring STEAM Celebration and Dino Egg Hunt at the Baisley Park Library in South Jamaica on Saturday, April 29. […]

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New York, NY April 14, 2023 – Literacy Inc. (LINC), an early childhood literacy non-profit and Molina Healthcare, a provider of managed healthcare services are partnering with Clean Rite Center to present Books and Bubbles, a reading program that promises to be loads of fun on National Laundry Day! The festivities will commence at 11:00 […]

I like the ocean I like the sea I like the water splashing on me. Alayna Brijlal lights up as she finishes reading her sight words before bedtime. Sight words are rhythmic and fun, and literacy leaders love them because they build speed and fluency, increasing reading comprehension. Alayna is one of three children in […]

Literacy Inc. (LINC) is partnering with Salesforce to improve our impact. Volunteer employee consultants help us leverage Salesforce’s cloud-based, customer-relationship manage­ment technology to grow our transformational early literacy programs in New York City. In addition to improving LINC’s outreach to parents and caregivers, our collaboration enables us to more effi­ciently and effectively monitor our impact […]

This past January, Literacy Inc. (LINC) and the 17 other partner organizations that comprise City’s First Readers (CFR) united in our quarterly “CFR Week” campaign to reach families with information about free resources, services, and early literacy programming available to them through CFR. The results of this coordinated effort were astounding: 1,500 families reached with […]

Petula Gay, the Director of the Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center (FOCH) in Staten Island, is more than a friend to Literacy Inc. (LINC). She is a true literacy leader and advocate. Petula has been a LINC Very Involved Parent (VIP) since 2022 and in that short time she has encouraged five of her […]

NEW YORK, NY, April 1, 2023– Literacy Inc. (LINC), an early childhood literacy non-profit, and Fidelis Care, a New York State health plan, announced its third 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 […]