Oregon Department of Corrections, Coffee Creek Correctional Facility,
24499 SW Grahams Ferry Rd, Wilsonville, OR 97070

The Children’s Book Bank began when Founder and Executive Director Danielle Swope decided to find a way to give the stacks of books her children had outgrown.  Inspired by her own experiences as a Teach for America teacher and a parent, Dani wanted to ensure that her children’s books got into the hands of kids who might not otherwise have books of their own at home.  She contacted a local Head Start program that was happy to receive her family’s books and took her kids on a field trip to deliver them.  Within a week her phone was ringing off the hook with people looking for the “Book Lady”

SocialJusticeBooks.org is a project of Teaching for Change, a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide teachers and parents with the tools to create schools where students learn to read, write and change the world.

At Madison, all students will access an engaging and inclusive education defined by diversity and respect. All students will graduate from high school empowered with critical skills necessary for success in higher education, career, and community engagement.

Reading Is Resistance is a small, local, grassroots organization started by North Portland educators and parents Farnell Newton and Zapoura Newton-Calvert in 2016. This project, inspired by the national Teaching for Change Social Justice Books Project, is rooted in a deep love for teaching, curiosity about how to learn together as a multi-racial family, and commitment to anti-racist parenting and education.  

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Open School East is a 7th-12th grade school in East Multnomah County that helps kids excel academically, graduate, and go to college. We give our kids rigorous academics, teachers who believe in them, and a whole lot of relentless love and support. And it works. Our students advance an average of 2.5 grade levels in math and reading in their first year with us.

KairosPDX is a non-profit organization focused on delivering excellent, equitable education to underserved children, their families and their communities. Through innovative pedagogy, community collaboration and family partnership we are closing Portland’s persistent achievement gap in measurable, sustainable ways. Our mission is to eliminate the prolific racial achievement and opportunity gaps by cultivating confident, creative, compassionate, leaders who exceed expectations at each milestone ages 0-10. We do this through a three-pronged approach that includes: