2018 Winners & Honorees

Library of Congress Literacy Awards Best Practices 2018 (PDF, 2.3 MB)

Winners

• David M. Rubenstein Prize ($150,000): Reading Is Fundamental, Washington, D.C.
• American Prize ($50,000): East Side Community School, New York City
• International Prize ($50,000): Instituto Pedagógico para Problemas del Lenguaje, Mexico City, Mexico

Honorees

Youth Literacy Programs

• America SCORES, New York City
• Mango Tree Literacy Lab, Lira, Uganda
• Reach Education, Inc., Washington, D.C.

Adult Literacy Programs

• Philadelphia Office of Adult Education, Philadelphia
• Project Read, Provo, Utah
• ProLiteracy Worldwide, Syracuse, New York

Multigenerational Literacy Programs

• Fundación A Mano Manaba, Jama, Ecuador
• Minnesota Literacy Council, St. Paul, Minnesota
• Umuhuza, Kigali, Rwanda

Programs for People with Learning Differences

• Learning Ally, Princeton, New Jersey
• Resources for the Blind, Quezon City, Philippines
• Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2), Washington, D.C.

Innovative Uses of Technology

• Sesame Workshop India Trust, New Delhi, India
• Transformemos Fundación Para El Desarrollo Social, Cundinamarca, Colombia
• World Possible, Irvine, California