Our History

Our HistoryIn 2021, the John & Janice Wyatt Foundation (J2W) launched the Winchester Campaign for Grade-Level Reading (WCGLR), an official member of the national Campaign for Grade-Level Reading (CGLR), a collaborative effort made up of foundations, non-profit partners, business leaders, government agencies, states and communities across North America that works to ensure that more children in low-income families succeed in school and graduate prepared for college, a career, and active citizenship.​

 

J2W’s mission is to level the educational playing field for disadvantaged youth by focusing all available Foundation resources toward increasing access to, and improving the quality of, the early childcare and out-of-school time systems within their service areas through grants that support high-impact programming.​​

 

 

Since 2021, programs funded by J2W have impacted over 11,000 children in Winchester alone.​

 

WCGLR’s overall goal is to increase the percentage of third graders reading at or above the proficient level by at least 75% by 2032 by focusing on three main areas: school readiness, school attendance, and summer and afterschool learning. Each of these goals represents a key research-backed predictor of school success and strives to tackle head-on the obstacles to achieving grade-level reading.​

 

 

Leyendo Juntos, WCGLR’s Spanish-language outreach, focuses on increasing reading and literacy skills among Spanish-speaking children; afterschool program support, and the Birth to 5 initiatives with Healthy Families and Handley Library.