Books for Keeps and Creature Comforts Partner up to Increase Athens Literacy Rates
Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
Books for Keeps, a nonprofit to increase literacy rates among Athens elementary students, created a literacy mentor program in 2009. The initiative caught the attention of popular Athens hotspot, Creature Comforts, so the two organizations formed a partnership a couple of years ago to target low literacy rates at a local elementary school.
In 2021, the brewery decided to focus on one issue: early literacy rates among third grade students. The program, called Get Comfortable, aims to increase the percentage of Clarke County third grade students reading at grade level from 20% to 60% by 2027.
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