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.

Atlassian Foundation International has partnered with Room to Read since 2009 and has donated more than US$15 million toward Room to Read’s programs since then, making them our largest corporate investor from Australia. Atlassian staff also provide significant personal support to Room to Read through their “Dollars a Day” workplace giving program.

Having supported Room to Read Girls’ Education Program in Bangladesh and Cambodia from 2019 to 2022, enabling the transition of over 4,300 girls to secondary school, Cartier Philanthropy continued in 2024 to fund our global efforts to unlock the potential of millions of children worldwide through quality education.

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 2024, Room to Read joined CVC’s program as a signature partner. Since then, CVC has supported our work in Indonesia, helping to expand vibrant, child-friendly libraries, create culturally relevant books in Bahasa Indonesia, and strengthen community and government partnerships. Together, we are building a culture of reading that will enable thousands of Indonesian children to thrive in school and in life for generations to come.

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.

Driven by a belief in hassle-free ticketing that puts humanity first, ground-breaking nonprofit ticketing platform Humanitix gives 100% of their profits to charity. As a Room to Read partner since 2018, Humanitix has benefited more than 30,000 children around the world over the past five years, with their impact growing significantly as their business scales. Humanitix is changing the ticketing industry for the better, and in doing so, making it possible for thousands more young learners around the world to exercise their right to a quality education.

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.

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. 

Room to Read partnered with USAID directly in India through a prime cooperative agreement (the USAID Scaling up Early Reading Intervention or SERI) and with USAID consortiums as a subcontractor in Cambodia, Laos, Rwanda and Nepal (with RTI, Save the Children, Education Development Center and Chemonics, respectively). Through these partnerships, we supported strengthening education systems to provide access to quality early grade reading education at scale. Through technical and implementation assistance, we benefited millions of children, teachers, coaches, parents, government officials and communities with best practice training as well as teaching and learning materials in mother tongue languages.

With funding from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Room to Read partnered with World Food Programme to implement the six-year McGovern-Dole Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, which was completed in 2024. The project endline evaluation revealed that as a result of the project, students' reading skills had dramatically improved. Since baseline, the percentage of Grade 2 students who can correctly answer 80 percent of reading comprehension questions rose from 15 percent to 61 percent, with similar gains in letter identification in both grades 1 and 2. Room to Read will continue our partnership with WFP into 2025, as a five-year follow-on project focusing on sustainability has been approved by the USDA.