Support My Community
Read Charlotte is all about collaboration and coordination. The entire community can play a role in helping thousands of kids in reading.
Join the fight for literacy in Charlotte-Mecklenburg!
GET INVOLVED
Read Charlotte is a community-wide children’s reading initiative uniting parents, educators and community partners to improve children’s literacy from birth through third grade.
Help your PreK-3rd grade kids
stay on track with a FREE Reading Checkup! With this tool, Mecklenburg County families receive targeted recommendations for specific reading skills to focus on at home, while choosing from activities that meet the child’s needs.
GET A READING CHECKUP »
Become a volunteer tutor
with HELPS, Augustine Literacy Project and/or Heart Math! These are currently virtual opportunities to support children as a volunteer tutor.
VOLUNTEER »
Donate
to support our efforts to build home libraries for kids and eliminate the book desert across Mecklenburg County.
DONATE »
Help your PreK-3rd grade kids
stay on track with a FREE Reading Checkup! With this tool, Mecklenburg County families receive targeted recommendations for specific reading skills to focus on at home, while choosing from activities that meet the child’s needs.
GET A READING CHECKUP »
Become a volunteer tutor
with HELPS, Augustine Literacy Project and/or Heart Math! These are currently virtual opportunities to support children as a volunteer tutor.
VOLUNTEER »
Donate
to support our efforts to build home libraries for kids and eliminate the book desert across Mecklenburg County.
DONATE »
Become a Tutor
Consider becoming a reading or math tutor in Charlotte-Mecklenburg. Current tutoring opportunities are all virtual.
Donate to Read Charlotte
Contributions to Read Charlotte help build home libraries for children, support community education efforts, strengthen family engagement or support the Transformation Fund, which invests in evidence-based literacy programs.
Become a Checkup Champ
Dozens of organizations are partnering with us to bring the Reading Checkup tool to families across Mecklenburg County. Let's partner and bring this evidence-based resource to thousands of PreK-3rd grade children.
Nominate a Reading Hero
Read Charlotte recognizes ordinary people in Mecklenburg County doing extraordinary things to improve children’s language and literacy (birth through third grade).
Donate Books
Donate gently used books to Promising Pages or make a donation to help us buy new diverse and inclusive books through our partnership with Reading Is Fundamental.
Donate Literacy Kits
Help us provide families with Literacy Kits to support their use of the Reading Checkup at home.