A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started. He is going to sit where you are sitting, and when you are gone, attend to those things you think are important. . . . He will assume control of your cities, states, and nations. He is going to move in and take over your churches, schools, universities and corporations. . . The fate of humanity is in his hands. . .

–Abraham Lincoln

Community Partners

All of us have a stake in the future, in raising educated children who will inherit our roles. Supporting all our families in raising future readers extends beyond the scope of just one organization and is truly a community-wide effort. Ready 4 Reading collaborates with numerous vital community partners to deliver its messages, services. and books in the Children’s Early Reading Center and across Greenville County in homes, clinics, churches and schools.

• Alliance for Collaboration Hispanic Community
• Alliance for Quality Education
• Center Developmental Services
• Christ Church Episcopal
• DHEC WIC Clinics
• First Baptist Church Greenville
• First Steps Greenville
• Golden Rule Child Development Center
• Graduate Greenville
• Greenville Chamber of Commerce
• Greenville County Child Care Association
• Greenville County Library
• Greenville County Literacy Association
• Greenville County Recreation Commission
• Greenville County Schools Early Childhood Program
• Greenville County Schools Title 1 Parent Facilitators
• Greenville County Schools Lifelong Learning–Child Care Training
• Greenville County Schools Lifelong Learning–ESOL
• Greenville Hospital System–Director Children’s Hospital
• Greenville Kiwanis Club
• Hispanic-American Women’s Association
• Mauldin High School
• Mauldin Middle School
• New Carolina Competitiveness Council
• Phillis Wheatley Association
• Pleasantburg Rotary Club
• Rotary District 7750
• Rotary Club of Easley
• Rotary Club of Greenville
• Rotary Club of Simpsonville
• SC Head Start Statewide Collaboration Office
• SC Commission on Minority Affairs
• SC Department of Education
• Simpsonville Methodist-Trinity Women’s Circle
• Small Smiles Dental Clinic
• Sterling Community Umbrella Group
• Sunbelt Human Advancement Resources Head Start and Early Head Start
• United Way Upstate Child Care Resource and Referral Center
• United Way of Greenville
• USC Upstate
• University Center of Greenville