Multi-Year
Grant Recipient
We're All About Literacy!
#LongLiveLiteracy
Our Focus
Our goal is to provide opportunities to increase language and literacy skills for all children, ages birth-11 years old. In particular, some of our goals include:
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Increasing summer learning opportunities and decreasing summer learning loss
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Increasing kindergarten readiness skills
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Increasing grade-level reading by third grade
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Increasing early literacy skills
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Promoting family literacy
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Promoting healthy families
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Encouraging a love of reading and learning
Our Founding Partners
Ujima is one of the seven principals of Kwanzaa that means “collective work and responsibility." Our programs are developed through a collaboration between:​
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Bartley-Decatur Neighborhood Center
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Missouri State University's Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD)
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Springfield-Greene County Libraries
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Springfield NAACP
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Springfield Public Schools - Equity and Access