Bridge to Literacy is a global movement that is designed to unite organizations with NABU towards a common goal: to eradicate illiteracy and empower children to thrive.

Bridge to Literacy is an initiative designed to unite like-minded organizations from around the world towards a common goal: to increase literacy and empower children to thrive.

Through the Bridge To Literacy program, partners work with NABU to:

Develop new ways to reach readers in their community

Build their network through peer-to-peer events with other literacy advocates.

For select innovative projects, NABU also provides microgrants to help make it easier for partners to launch and assess new projects.

Who is the Bridge to Literacy program for?

NABU works with organizations of all sizes that share a deep belief in the transformative power of literacy. Together, we harness our collective strength and expertise to develop innovative programs, initiatives, and resources that drive literacy forward.

We would love to learn about your organization and interest in advancing literacy in your community. By becoming a Bridge to Literacy partner, you can advance reading engagement in your community with the support of a network of like-minded advocates.

Shared Vision

Innovation and Networking

Access to NABU’s tools

Support

Why become a BTL partner?

Bridge To Literacy

Team up with NABU to give the gift of literacy to children! By taking the Build a Book challenge, you can help create one amazing, high-quality, culturally responsive mother tongue storybook for kids!

Tell your friends & family, post on social media, and share your love of reading!

That’s it! Fully created books are published and made available for free on the NABU.org app, which with daily use, increases literacy by 35%. Once you’ve completed and funded a book you will receive:

your profile on NABU’s digital landing page Wall of Fame

acknowledgment; (name + book on social media and newsletter)

access to exclusive offerings throughout the NABU community

Let’s change the world, one story at a time!

Did you know that around the world, 250M children are unable to read simply because they don’t have enough books in their mother tongue?

Team up with NABU to give the gift of literacy to children by creating your own personal fundraising campaign! By taking the Build a Book challenge, you can help create one amazing, high-quality, culturally responsive mother tongue storybook for kids!

Build a Book

NABU’s Creative Fellowship in Miami brought together a cohort of storytellers and artists of Haitian heritage to help create bilingual Haitian Creole Children’s books for children and families in Florida, and beyond. Fellows collaborated with our international team to develop their artistic abilities and contributed mother tongue books to the Haitian community. Applications are currently closed for the 2023 cohort.

To commemorate the conclusion of the Summer 2023 Creative Fellowship, we recently hosted a graduation ceremony in the NABU HP Creative Lab to celebrate our talented Creative Fellows. This graduation marked a huge milestone for our organization, as the Fellowship was specifically designed to produce high-quality books for Haitian children on a global scale. We are immensely proud to say that our Fellows have not only met but exceeded our expectations.


NABU takes immense pride in the books crafted by this cohort, recognizing the profound positive impact they will bring to children, educators, and learners to read, learn, and grow. This book collection is set to be published on the NABU App in the coming months.

Creative Fellowship

No matter how old you are, where you live, or whether or not you can give, you can help solve the global literacy crisis–and you can start right now.

Get Involved

Every act of support helps us get closer to achieving our mission. 

At NABU we have plenty to do and are always looking for a helping hand. Interested in volunteering for us? Click on the link below and let's work together!

Education is a fundamental human right. HP Inc. is proud to partner with NABU in supporting local illustrators and authors to increase relevant content creation and book production, ensuring children globally have access to enriching resources and content they need in their native language. HP creates technology that makes life better for everyone, everywhere. Through our product and service portfolio of personal systems, printers and 3D printing solutions, we engineer experiences that amaze. We focus on advancing Sustainable Impact, taking bold and comprehensive steps to drive climate action, protect human rights and accelerate digital equity backed with some of the most comprehensive goals in our industry. Partnering with organizations like NABU helps us deliver on our goal to accelerate digital equity for 150 million people by 2030. Learn more at www.hp.com/sustainableimpact.

With smartphone usage set to triple over the next 5 years, NABU is committed to making children’s books accessible to every child in the world by 2030. NABU’s diverse partnerships with government, education partners, and other nonprofit organizations support our efforts eradicating illiteracy for good.

UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, is the world’s leading children’s charity, and has been since 1946.

Every day, UNICEF helps children realise their full potential by providing access to clean water, life-saving vaccines, quality education and health care. UNICEF works to ensure every child is safe and protected from harm and is always there during times of emergency.

Alongside its partners, UNICEF works with families, communities and local organisations in more than 190 countries to protect and advocate for children and young people. UNICEF does this by leveraging highly sophisticated infrastructure, economies of scale, and working in collaboration with local in-country partners to deliver for every child, no matter what.

At UNICEF Australia, we’re supporting UNICEF’s global ambition while ensuring every child in need, here in Australia and across the Asia Pacific region, is healthy, educated and safe.

Bloomberg Philanthropies works to ensure better, longer lives for the greatest number of people by focusing on five key areas: the arts, education, the environment, government innovation, and public health.

Encompassing all of Mike Bloomberg’s giving, Bloomberg Philanthropies includes his foundation, corporate, and personal philanthropy as well as Bloomberg Associates, a pro bono consultancy that works with mayors in cities around the world.

NABU partnered up with the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) on a special adaption of a COVID-19 Health Collection book. This book addresses the anxieties and fears that may arise among children, parents, and caregivers during the pandemic. This is collaboration came about after a study conducted by AKF in Kenya, finding that children feel that life won’t be the same. The book seeks to open up the conversation for a joint solution between parents and their children. The Aga Khan Foundation East Africa (AKF EA) mission is to assist the poorest and most marginalized in society, with a special focus on women, girls, children, and the youth so that they can achieve a level of self-reliance and improved quality of life.

Partners

NABU artists create original stories, as well as, curate, translate, adapt, and re-illustrate stories from the world's best children's book authors. Contributions from ABC Lab creators ensure a diverse and well-balanced book collection for children.

It costs NABU $2400 a year to educate a local artist within the ABC Lab.

In the lab, artists translate their artistic abilities from physical to digital. They receive:

World-class creative training from a team of directors who have worked with world-renowned artists and authors

Enhanced professional development to become a published author or illustrator

An opportunity to join NABU’s in-house creative team to develop children’s books across underserved languages and cultures

Creative skills that propel career development and increased income opportunities

When you sponsor an artist, you’ll receive updates on their journey to improve their skills and a copy of one of their completed books.

In NABU’s Authentic Book Creation (ABC) Lab, local creators are trained to write and illustrate books in mother tongue languages in regions where they do not exist, ensuring that every child has free access to the essential books that they need to learn to read.

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