Read Pinellas

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READ Pinellas’s goal is to reach everyone in our community, but we need your help to get there. By investing in our work and learning, you can help build a community in which everyone receives the education they need to reach their full potential. Now, please help us and our partner organizations make it a reality.

Why Join

Everyone is born with the potential to succeed, but over 80,000 adults in Pinellas County are functionally illiterate.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. As a member, you can make a difference in the lives of disadvantaged adults by helping them gain the literacy skills and the self-sufficiency that will enable them to fully participate in our local and  global economy.

One of READ Pinellas’s goals is to work in cooperation with individuals and local groups to help put everyone on a path to success. So, when you become a member, you make a direct impact on the life of a child, a mother, a grandfather, the entire Pinellas County community.

Gift of Hope

We believe that literacy is not a gift given just to certain individuals; it is a foundational human right that brings hope, economic ability, gender equity and a pathway out of poverty that everyone is entitled to.

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Please help your community by becoming a member today.

WE NEED YOUR HELP

Literacy can transform a life. Thanks to the generous support of corporations, foundations, community organizations, and thousands of individuals across Pinellas County just like you, we are helping to enable such transformations every day.

Membership allows us to fulfill our mission and put everyone on the path to discovering the inspiring array of people, places, and ideas that await them inside the world of reading.

Congratulations Graduates

Read Pinellas wants to congratulate all the recent and up coming graduates. Thank you for all your hard work.click here, to learn more about our services and how we are striving to increase literacy in our community .

Literacy Statistics

Read Pinellas promotes a rich and thriving learning experience. Here are some quick statistics and student numbers:

• 15% of the United States population has specific reading disorders.
• 46% of American adults cannot understand the labels on their pharmaceutical prescriptions.
• 50% of U.S. adults are unable to read an eighth grade level book.
• 33% of U.S. high school graduates never read a book after high school.
• 80% of U.S. families have not purchased a book this year.
• 50% of books started are never read to completion.
• 70% of adults have not been in a bookstore in the past five years.
• 15% of U.S. students are dyslexic.