Brooke Astor Fund Awards Teaching Matters $600,000 to Implement Early Reading Program
New York, NY – January 9, 2015 Teaching Matters is bringing its Early Reading Matters program to 8 high poverty schools in the Bronx, thanks to a $600,000 award by the New York Community Trust Brooke Astor Fund for New York City Education. The award amount was the second highest of $7.4 million distributed to 51 nonprofits in the final round of the Trust’s grant-making during 2014, and the second largest grant so far from the Brooke Astor Fund to improve reading in early grades. Early Reading Matters offers a blueprint to deepen teacher support in the critical area of K-3 reading.
