Literacy takes flight in New Jersey with Boy Scout Eagle Project

Surya has been organizing a very successful Magazine Harvest as his Boy Scout Eagle Project in New Jersey – collecting over 1,200 magazines for new readers.  The magazines are being sorted, labeled, and bundled in USPS flat rate boxes for  delivery to new readers.  Surya and his team are creating a list of the magazines in each bundle, which are organized by topic for easy selection by literacy programs.

Magazine Bundles for New Readers

Magazines from dentists make new readers smile

My lifelong love for magazines started with reading Highlights at the dentist office – and I know I’m not alone in that experience. To this day, I can’t pass a Highlights without picking it up to look for hidden pictures.  So reading magazines in the dentist office is the seed that grew to become MagazineLiteracy.org and dentists continue to receive and share so many wonderful magazines in their waiting areas with their patients.  Let’s tap this enormous potential – putting a smile on the face of new readers, while your dentist brightens yours.

Organized literacy efforts among health professionals are not unprecedented. For example, Reach out and Read is an amazing program empowered by pediatric physicians.  Dental offices receive many wonderful magazines each month to share with readers in their waiting rooms and cycle through them as new issues come in.  We know from working with many dentist that they love the idea of giving the magazines a new life by sending them to our literacy programs.

Whether you are a dentist or a patient – contact us to help grow our “Make Readers Smile” project.   Every dentist can participate – strengthening the breadth and depth of our magazine literacy supply chain. In addition to supplying their own magazines, the visibility can encourage patients to be involved too – perhaps by recycling their own magazines to new readers and volunteering to build up our local literacy teams.

I’m smiling already!

Thank you Folio: for celebrating our magazine literacy work

We are so honored and thankful to Folio: magazine for recognizing our global literacy project in their Top 40 list this year.  Our work is made possible by the generous support and active involvement of publishers and every type of magazine industry stakeholder throughout the entire magazine supply chain, from printers to consumers.

There is a role for everyone to play in changing the world – one magazine at a time.  Become part of our story!