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Film, Video 2025 Literacy Awards Recipients

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Title

  • 2025 Literacy Awards Recipients

Summary

  • The Library of Congress Literacy Awards honor nonprofit organizations that have made outstanding contributions to increasing literacy in the United States or abroad. This short video highlights the 2025 Library of Congress Literacy Awards winners and honorees. Learn more about the inspiring and innovative work of the Literacy Partners (2025 David M. Rubenstein Prize recipient), Literacy Mid-South (2025 Kislak Family Foundation Prize recipient), Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities’ Prime Time Family Reading Program (2025 American Prize recipient), Building Tomorrow (2025 International Prize recipient), and the following 20 organizations that are honored for their successful practices and emerging strategies in literacy promotion:

    • Book Harvest’s Books from Birth Program
    • CitySchools Collaborative
    • Digital Inquiry Group
    • Indy Reads
    • Knowledge Empowering Youth (KEY)
    • NABU
    • NPR’s Student Podcast Challenge
    • Philadelphia Writing Project
    • READ Global
    • Reading Assist
    • Richland County Public Library’s Education Studio
    • Scottish Book Trust’s Bookbug Program
    • SML Good Neighbors, Inc.
    • Start A Library Trust’s The National Read Aloud Initiative
    • WETA’s Colorín Colorado Emerging Strategies Honorees
    • Dyslexia Alliance for Black Children
    • Loxion Mobile Library
    • Start Lighthouse, Inc.
    • Teach for Change Nigeria’s Literacy Amidst Violent Conflict Initiative (LAVC)
    • Welcome Home Jersey City’s Literary Initiative

Event Date

  • Thursday, December 4, 2025

Running Time

  • 6 minutes, 4 seconds

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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