Literacy For A Lifetime - Usborne Books 50% Matching Grant Program

Educational Development Corporation, trade publisher
of Usborne Books, presents
Literacy For A Lifetime
50% Matching Grant Program

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Literacy for a Lifetime is a matching grant program offered by the Educational Development Corporation, trade publisher of Usborne Children's Books.

Our goal is to help your organization maximize your grant money or donated funds.Literacy for a Lifetime offers a 50% matching grant in Usborne Books for every dollar contributed.

How the program works:

If your organization or school uses a grant (or part of a grant) or donated funds to purchase Usborne Books, EDC (Educational Development Corporation) will match it with 50% in additional books.

For example, a $1,000 grant is matched with an additional $500 and the organization receives $1,500 in Usborne Books for their use. A $5,000 grant or donation purchase will receive $2,500 more, resulting in $7,500 in Usborne Books for the organization.

There is NO cap on the amount that we will match! A $1 million dollar grant will be stretched to $1.5 million dollars with the Literacy For A Lifetime program. The minimum order to qualify for the matching grant is just $200.00.

The program can be utilized as often as donations and/or grants become available to the organization.

Usborne will pay the shipping costs, and the order is tax-free when your tax exempt number is provided.

The receiving school or organization can have full control over the selection of books from an array of over 1,300 titles.

How to order using the 50% Matching Grant program:

Complete the Literacy For A Lifetime Grant Information Form - download here. This form must accompany your order to qualify for the 50% matching grant.

Fill out the Payment Options Form - download here.

FAX OR MAIL us the following:

   Grant Information Form
   Payment Options Form
   List of Usborne Books you are purchasing at retail - download blank book order form
   List of Usborne Books you wish to receive free with the 50% Matching Grant

View the complete online catalog of Usborne Books

FAX to: 330-908-0837 Attn: Literacy For A Lifetime

Or, MAIL to:
Usborne Books
Attn: Literacy For A Lifetime
761 Ledge Road
Macedonia, OH 44056

If all of your information is complete, I will process your book order and 50% matching grant the following business day.

Questions? Please call me, Cheryl Simon, at 1-866-508-2483 (toll-free), or if you prefer, email me at cherylbooks@aol.com. I am also available to assist you with your book selections.

Potential Recipients: matching grant books

Schools

Libraries

Non-Profit Organizations

Head Start Programs

Educational Programs

Literacy Programs

Hospitals

Areas affected by natural disasters

50% Matching Grant Partners

Usborne Books is proud to have partnered with the following service clubs and organizations in sponsoring local literacy and educational programs with our 50% matching grants.

We look forward to adding your organization's logo or business name to this page in honor of your committment to literacy, in support of Usborne Books' Literacy For A Lifetime 50% Matching Grant Program.

kiwanisbookgrant

Kiwanis International

	The Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries
Delta Kappa Gamma Theta Chapter

Literacy Facts and Statistics

85% of children in the juvenile court system cannot read

Over 70% of adult prison inmates cannot read above the 4th grade level

75% of unemployed adults have reading or writing difficulties

One of the national poverty indicators is having less than 25 pieces of printed material in the home

States where homes have more reading materials generally have higher reading proficiency

The love of reading is the most important educational goal we can have for our children...Reading teaches language skills. Reading stimulates imaginations. Reading is important for life.

Literacy For A Lifetime is a program that will maximize your grant or donation dollars and get books into the schools, hands, and homes of children throughout the country!

Stretch your grant dollars or donated funds today with the Literacy For A Lifetime 50% grant matching program!

Questions? Call 1-866-508-2483 (toll-free), or if you prefer, send an email to cherylbooks@aol.com

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Company Information

· Educational Development Corporation (EDC), a Delaware corporation with its principal office in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is the sole U.S. distributor of Usborne Books, a line of children's books produced in the United Kingdom by Usborne Publishing Limited.

· Educational Development Corporation is a publicly traded company on NASDAQ (EDUC). We are dedicated to providing the best educational children's books available in the marketplace. The Usborne product line encompasses over 1,400 titles incorporating history, science, nature, beginning and juvenile readers and foreign languages plus much more. They are lavishly illustrated, award winning, critically acclaimed and are in widespread use in educational institutions as well as in the home.

· EDC was recognized as one of Fortune Small Business Magazine’s Top 100 Fastest Growing Small Public Companies in 2003 and 2005. EDC has also been recognized by Forbes magazines as of the 200 Best Small Companies in America.