Children's Literacy Program
Our Children’s Literacy work aims to engage children in a lifelong love of books and reading, thereby helping to close the gap in school performance for economically disadvantaged children..
Literacy and School Readiness
Back 2 School Store
Now in its 10th year, NCJW NY has hosted the Back 2 School Store (B2SS) in early August since 2015. This three-day event transforms our community center, known as Council House, into a very special pop-up department store...
Children’s Literacy Program Volunteer
NCJW NY’s Children’s Literacy Program is unique. Our reading tutors work one-on-one with students in grades Kindergarten through 5, who attend after-school programs of partner organizations. Tutoring takes place once a week, on a mutually designated day...
Literacy and School Readiness
Since founding a Kindergarten more than 100 years ago, NCJW NY has been committed to boosting literacy skills and fostering school-readiness for our city’s most marginalized populations, especially low-income New Yorkers and newly arrived immigrants...