A number of outstanding nonprofits and charities combat the many challenges to reading. With a variety of missions and methods, each of these organizations works tirelessly to help spread reading and literacy around the world.

• Literacy International Association: Based out of Newark, Delaware., the LIA seeks to “empower educators, inspire students, and encourage leaders” all towards the mission of greater literacy. To do this, they partner with more than 300,000 teachers and researchers across 86 countries.
• Reading is Fundamental: RIF promotes literacy, specifically among children across the United States. The group provides school reading materials, a summer reading program, and online reading tools. Founded in 1966, RIF is headquartered in Washington D.C.
• Room to Read: Room to Read aims to change the lives of children worldwide through literacy education, especially in third-world nations. The nonprofit began in Nepal in 1998 by bringing books to low-income communities. As of 2016, the group had helped more than 11 million children.
• Reach Out and Read: This nonprofit seeks to give young children a foundation for success by adding reading into pediatric care and helping families to read books together. Started in 1989 in Boston, the group annually helps more than 4 million families in the U.S.
• Jumpstart: Located in Boston, Jumpstart focuses on early childhood education to break the cycle of poverty in the United States. Since its founding in 1993, the group has impacted the lives of more than 100,000 children nationwide.
• LitWorld: With the motto ‘Be the story’, LitWorld encourages and empowers kids around the globe to love literacy by learning to tell their own stories. The nonprofit hosts a number of clubs and camps, and also runs the annual World Read Aloud Day.
• Everybody Wins! What if businessmen and women could help promote a child’s future by reading aloud to classrooms during their lunch break? That was the idea that inspired Arthur Tannenbaum to start Everybody Wins! in Atlanta during 1997.
• First Book: Since 1992, First Book has given books and reading materials to needy American children. Over that time, the group has distributed an astounding 175 million books in an effort to promote equal access to quality education.
• Association for Library Service to Children: The ALSC is the “world's largest organization dedicated to the support and enhancement of library service to children.” With a network of over 4,000 librarians, the nonprofit provides programming and continuing education to promote childhood reading.
• National Right to Read Foundation: The Foundation promotes better “experimental, empirical research in reading instruction.” Its goal is to improve reading education for all students in the United States. The organization was founded in 1993 in Warrenton, Va.
• Barbershop Books: Alvin Irby noticed that young African American boys weren’t reading, and it was causing them to fall behind in school. His solution to this dilemma was to provide reading spaces in community barbershops were black men were congregating. This gave the boys a chance to read surrounded by role models and to reclaim their identity.
• We Need Diverse Books: The organization “strives to create a world in which all children can see themselves in the pages of a book.” Their goal is to increase the diversity of characters in kids books and get these books into the hands of every kid. Because kids are more likely to enjoy reading when they relate to the characters in each story.