Description
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 2026 Library of Congress Literacy Awards winners and honorees. Learn more about the inspiring and innovative work of the Literacy Partners (2026 David M. Rubenstein Prize recipient), Projeto Uerê,(2026 Kislak Family Foundation Prize recipient), the Literacy Center of West Michigan (2026 American Prize recipient), Read Alliance, (2026 International Prize recipient), Nal’ibali Trust and the following 17 organizations that are honored for their successful practices and emerging strategies in literacy promotion:
• Fundación Flamboyán
• New Media Learning’s Reading Nation Waterfall and Book Ecosystems
• The Oneida Nation’s Oneida Reads, and
• United Way of Delaware’s Get Delaware Reading: Summer Program
• The California Writing Project, and
• The Economist Educational Foundation’s Topical Talk Initiative
• Everyman Theatre’s High School Matinee Program
• Play Smart Literacy
• World Relief Sacramento’s Afghan Women’s ESL Literacy and Integration Groups Program
• Fardah Roshan Academy
• Right to Learn Afghanistan’s Darakht-e Danesh Library
• Page Ahead
• Memphis Teacher Residency’s Memphis Literacy Institute
• Mesquite ISD’s Read Play Talk Initiative
• Prison Journalism Project’s Journalism as Literacy Program
• The University of Florida Foundation’s Books & Cooks program
• The University of Montana Western’s Dillon Community Story Stroll
For transcript and more information, visit https://www.loc.gov/item/video-13219/