Partner with Us

Room to Read received a grant in 2024 from Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropies, a trusted supporter whose unrestricted funding enabled us to meet needs where they were greatest. This funding has strengthened our ability to advance literacy and gender equality across multiple countries, supporting hundreds of thousands of children and opening doors to opportunities that will last for generations.

Through its e for Education initiative, Citi donates a percentage of the business proceeds traded electronically across its Markets franchise to education-focused non-profits and has raised over US$80 million since the inception. Since 2013, Citi has generously contributed over $9.5 million to Room to Read, the equivalent of teaching more than 190,000 children to read and write for a year.

In 2025, Echidna Giving made a five-year grant investment in Room to Read. EchidnaGiving is a leading thought partner for Room to Read in the areas of gender, innovation, analysis, learning and systemic change.

Through Goldman Sachs and Goldman Sachs Gives, the company and its senior executives have contributed more than US$26.4 million to Room to Read. In 2023, Goldman Sachs supported our literacy and girls’ education programs, benefiting more than 10,262 children. 

Since 2016, IMC has been a generous supporter of Room to Read’s Literacy Program in Africa, contributing over US $27 million to date. Through our partnership, IMC has helped equip young learners across Africa and now in India with the life-changing gift of literacy, empowering them to transform their lives, communities and future generations.

With funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Room to Read partnered with Save the Children and Humanity and Inclusion to implement the Learn to Read project in Laos. This initiative complemented government efforts to improve reading skills for children from the pre-primary level to Grade 2, with a special focus on children who do not speak Lao and children with disabilities. The project has developed and distributed more than 1.2 million inclusive and age-appropriate teaching and learning materials to 61,000 students in 921 schools. Many of these books have been made available in a video format with sign language interpretation to expand these resources to children with hearing and seeing impairments.

Room to Read and the Skoll Foundation are partnering to catalyze a bold organizational pivot that strengthens locally led, system-level education reform in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2025, Skoll approved multi-year support to help Room to Read advance its Africa Strategy and Africa Fund, enabling the organization to expand high-impact partnerships, deepen country-level leadership, and adapt proven literacy and girls’ education approaches across new and existing contexts. With Skoll’s catalytic support, Room to Read is accelerating scalable solutions, such as mother-tongue literacy and multimedia life skills content, to reach millions more children and lay the foundation for long-term, locally owned impact.

Luxury skincare brand Tatcha has been a corporate partner to Room to Read since 2014, with a percentage of every purchase supporting Room to Read's girls' education work across Asia and Africa. Tatcha is also a founding partner of our U.S. Literacy Initiative, which began in 2020. To date, the partnership has funded over 10 million days of school for girls in Africa and Southeast Asia and provided more than 643,139 books to children living in book deserts within the United States. Tatcha’s support has enabled us to provide in-school and after-school programs, family and community support, and access to diverse children’s storybooks for children living in communities experiencing deep educational and economic inequities. Among the various collections funded by Tatcha, we have created STEAM books and titles focused on peace and equality with plans to create more diverse books for Black, Latinx, and Native and white American communities where high levels of poverty and rural environments create extreme barriers to learning. 

With funding from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Room to Read partners with World Food Programme to implement the McGovern-Dole Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program in Bangladesh. The objectives of the McGovern-Dole Program are to reduce hunger and improve literacy and primary education, especially for girls. By providing school meals and teacher training, McGovern-Dole projects help boost school enrollment and academic performance.