Complete List of Winners and Honorees
Sort winners by organization name, award recognition, year awarded, service area, and population served by using the up and down arrows at the top of each column.
Organization | Type of Recognition | Year | Service Area | Population Served |
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826 National external link | American Prize | 2013 | United States | Students |
SMART (Start Making a Reader Today, Oregon Children's Foundation) external link | American Prize | 2014 | Oregon | Children |
United Through Reading external link | American Prize | 2015 | United States | Families |
Parent-Child Home Program external link | American Prize | 2016 | Multinational | Children |
National Center for Families Learning external link | American Prize | 2017 | United States | Families |
East Side Community School external link | American Prize | 2018 | New York City, NY | Students |
American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults (AAF) external link | American Prize | 2019 | United States | All ages |
The Immigrant Learning Center external link | American Prize | 2020 | Boston, MA | Immigrants & Refugees |
Parents as Teachers National Center external link | American Prize | 2021 | Multinational | Children & Families |
Make Way for Books external link | American Prize | 2022 | Arizona | Children |
Reach Out and Read external link | David M. Rubenstein Prize | 2013 | United States | Children & Parents |
Room to Read external link | David M. Rubenstein Prize | 2014 | Multinational | Children |
First Book external link | David M. Rubenstein Prize | 2015 | United States and Canada | Children |
WETA Reading Rockets external link | David M. Rubenstein Prize | 2016 | United States | Parents & Educators |
Children's Literacy Initiative external link | David M. Rubenstein Prize | 2017 | United States | Teachers |
Reading is Fundamental external link | David M. Rubenstein Prize | 2018 | United States | All ages |
ProLiteracy Worldwide external link | David M. Rubenstein Prize | 2019 | Multinational | Adults |
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library external link | David M. Rubenstein Prize | 2021 | Multinational | Children |
Street Child external link | David M. Rubenstein Prize | 2022 | Africa and Asia | All ages, Families, Teachers |
PlanetRead external link | International Prize | 2013 | Multinational | Children |
Mother Child Education Foundation (ACEV) external link | International Prize | 2014 | Turkey | All ages |
Coram Beanstalk external link | International Prize | 2015 | England | Children |
Libraries Without Borders external link | International Prize | 2016 | Multinational | Children & Adults |
Pratham Books external link | International Prize | 2017 | India | Children & Youth |
Instituto Pedagógico para Problemas del Lenguaje external link | International Prize | 2018 | Mexico City, Mexico | Children & Teachers |
ConTextos external link | International Prize | 2019 | El Salvador | Children & Youth |
International Rescue Committee, Pakistan Reading Project external link | International Prize | 2020 | Multinational | Immigrants & Refugees |
The Luminos Fund external link | International Prize | 2021 | Multinational | Children, Families, Teachers |
Young African Refugees for Integral Development (YARID) external link | International Prize | 2022 | Kampala, Uganda | All ages |
National Center for Families Learning external link | Special Response Award | 2020 | United States | Families |
Pratham Books external link | Special Response Award | 2020 | India | Children & Youth |
Room to Read external link | Special Response Award | 2020 | Multinational | Children |
Adult Literacy Tutors Association (ALTA) external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2013 | Trinidad and Tobago | Families |
Banco del Libro external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2013 | Venezuela | All ages |
Better Beginnings external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2013 | United States | Children |
Dia (Association of Library Services to Children) external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2013 | Chicago, IL | Children |
Chen Yet-Sen Family Foundation external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2013 | China | Children |
First Book external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2013 | United States | Children |
Friends in Village Development Bangladesh external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2013 | India | All ages |
FunDza Literacy Trust external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2013 | South Africa | All ages |
Libros Para Pueblos external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2013 | Mexico City, Mexico | All ages |
Literacy Volunteers of America (Ruth Johnson Colvin) external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2013 | New York | Adults |
Motheread/Fatheread Colorado external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2013 | Colorado | Families |
National Center for Families Learning (Sharong Darling, President & Founder) external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2013 | United States | Families |
National Year of Reading 2012 external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2013 | Australia | All ages |
Osu Children's Literacy Fund external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2013 | Ghana | Children |
Premier League Reading Stars external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2013 | England | Children |
Queens Borough Public Library's Literacy Zone Welcome Centers external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2013 | New York City, NY | Families |
Read Aloud 15 Minutes external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2013 | United States | Families |
Reader to Reader external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2013 | Massachusetts | Youth |
Reading is Fundamental external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2013 | United States | All ages |
Room to Read external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2013 | Multinational | Children |
We Love Reading (Rana Dajani) external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2013 | Jordan | Children |
WETA Reading Rockets external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2013 | United States | Parents & Educators |
California Library Literacy Services external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2014 | California | Adults |
Coram Beanstalk external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2014 | England | Children |
Dr. A.V. Baliga Memorial Trust external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2014 | New Delhi, India | All ages |
Literacy Assistance Center external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2014 | New York City, NY | Adults |
Literacy Volunteers of Greater Hartford external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2014 | Hartford, CT | Adults |
Lost Boys Rebuilding South Sudan external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2014 | Bahr-El-Ghazal, South Sudan | Women & Girls |
ParentChild+ external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2014 | United States | Children |
Power Poetry external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2014 | United States | Youth |
Pratham Books external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2014 | India | Children & Youth |
ProLiteracy Worldwide external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2014 | Multinational | Adults |
Rural Education and Development (READ) Nepal external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2014 | Nepal | All ages |
Reading and Writing Foundation external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2014 | Multinational | Literacy Providers |
Reading Partners external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2014 | United States | Students |
Dollywood Imagination Library external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2014 | Multinational | Children |
Alif Laila Book Bus Society external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2015 | Pakistan | Children & Teens |
Book Aid International external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2015 | Sub-Saharan Africa | Adults & Children |
Escuela Santo Niño Jesús, Fe y Alegría external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2015 | Dominican Republic | Children |
Family Reading Partnership external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2015 | Tompkins County, NY | Children |
Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2015 | Washington D.C. | Youth |
Kazakhstan Reading Association external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2015 | Kazakhstan | Educators |
Literacy Alberni Society external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2015 | Port Alberni, Canada | Vancouver Island residents |
Literacy Council Montgomery County external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2015 | Rockville, MD | Adults |
Little Free Library external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2015 | Multinational | All ages |
Men with a Message Braille Program external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2015 | Delaware | All ages |
National Resource Center for Non-Formal Education Nepal external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2015 | Nepal | Children & Adults |
Picsterbooks (Permanently Closed) external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2015 | South Africa | Students |
Stiftung Lesen external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2015 | Germany | Children & Teens |
Worldreader external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2015 | Africa and Asia | All ages |
Afghanistan Center at Kabul University external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2016 | Afghanistan | All ages & Refugees |
Cell-Ed external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2016 | United States | Adults |
Chicago Literacy Alliance external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2016 | Chicago, IL | Literacy Organizations |
Collaborative Summer Library Program external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2016 | United States | Children & Adults |
Ethiopia Reads external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2016 | Ethiopia | Children & Adults |
GIZ-PCP (German Development Corporation - Police Cooperation Project) external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2016 | Afghanistan | Adults |
Library for All external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2016 | Haiti, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Cambodia and Mongolia | Children |
National Center on Adult Literacy-International Literacy Institute, University of Pennsylvania external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2016 | Multinational | All ages |
National Centre of Literacy and Numeracy for Adults (NCLANA-New Zealand) external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2016 | New Zealand | Educators & Researchers |
NYC Department of Homeless Services external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2016 | New York City, NY | Families |
Rumie Initiative external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2016 | Multinational | Children |
Sipar Books external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2016 | Cambodia | Children & Adults |
Student & Parents in Cooperative Education external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2016 | Waldo County, ME | Children & Families |
Zé Peão School Program external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2016 | João Pessoa, Brazil | All ages |
Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2017 | Afghanistan | Girls, Women & Families |
Center for Knowledge Assistance and Community Development external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2017 | Vietnam | All ages |
Center for Teaching and Learning external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2017 | Maine | Students |
CODE external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2017 | Africa, Caribbeans, and Canada | All ages |
CommonLit, Inc. external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2017 | United States | Youth |
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2017 | United States | Children, Families, Educators |
Reading Partners external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2017 | United States | Students |
Reading Works (Permanently Closed) external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2017 | Bernalillo County, NM | Adults |
Sealaska Heritage Institute external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2017 | Alaska | All ages |
ServeMinnesota ReadingCorps external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2017 | Minnesota | Children |
Better Beginnings Family Literacy Program (State Library of Western Australia) external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2017 | Australia | Children & Parents |
Story Share external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2017 | United States | Teens & Young Adults |
Tales & Travel Memories external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2017 | Elgin, IL | Adults & Seniors |
The Asia Foundation external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2017 | Multinational | Children & Adults |
Yayasan Sulinama external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2017 | Indonesia | Children |
America SCORES external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2018 | United States | Students |
Fundación a Mano Manaba external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2018 | Ecuador | All ages |
Learning Ally external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2018 | United States | All ages |
Mango Tree Literacy Lab external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2018 | Uganda | Children, Families, Teachers |
Minnesota Literacy Council external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2018 | Minnesota | All ages |
Philadelphia Office for Adult Education external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2018 | Philadelphia, PA | Adults |
Project Read external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2018 | Utah County, UT | Adults |
ProLiteracy Worldwide external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2018 | Multinational | Adults |
Reach Education, Inc. external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2018 | Washington D.C. | Students |
Resources for the Blind external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2018 | Philippines | All ages |
Sesame Workshop India Trust external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2018 | India | Children |
Transformemos Foundation for Social Development external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2018 | Colombia | Youth & Adults |
Umuhuza external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2018 | Rwanda | Children & Families |
Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2) external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2018 | United States | Children |
World Possible external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2018 | Multinational | Youth & Adults |
Bring Me a Book external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2019 | San Francisco, CA, Franklin, Florida, St. Louis, MO, Hong Kong | Children & Families |
Friends of Matenwa external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2019 | United States and Haiti | Students & Adults |
Hartford Public Library external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2019 | Hartford, CT | Immigrants & Refugees |
Literacy for Incarcerated Teens external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2019 | New York | Youth |
LitWorld International, Inc. external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2019 | Multinational | Children & Youth |
Meridian Library Distract external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2019 | Meridian, ID | Immigrants |
Nal'ibali Trust external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2019 | South Africa | Children |
One World Education external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2019 | Washington D.C. | Students & Adults |
Razia's Ray of Hope Foundation external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2019 | Afghanistan | Girls & Women |
Ready for Reading external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2019 | Rwanda | All ages |
Riecken Community Libraries external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2019 | Guatemala and Honduras | All ages |
The Conscious Connect external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2019 | Greater Miami Valley, Southwest Ohio | Students & Families |
The Jane Stern Dorado Community Library external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2019 | Puerto Rico | Students & Communities |
The PEN/Faulkner Foundation external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2019 | Washington, D.C. | Students & Teachers |
Western Massachusetts Writing Project external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2019 | Massachusetts | Students, Teachers, Families |
Adelante Mujeres external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2020 | Washington County, OR | Immigrants, English Language Learners, Families |
Book Dash external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2020 | South Africa | Children & Families |
Book Harvest external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2020 | North Carolina | Children & Families |
Briya Public Charter School external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2020 | Washington, D.C. | Children & Adults |
Child Aid external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2020 | Guatemala | Children |
Cooperative for Education (CoEd) external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2020 | Guatemala | Children |
Get Lit - Words Ignite external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2020 | California | Youth |
Island Readers & Writers external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2020 | Maine | All ages, Families, Teachers, Schools |
Keren Grinspoon Insrael external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2020 | Israel | Children |
Literacy for Life external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2020 | Williamsburg, VA | Adults & English Language Learners |
Mighty Writers external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2020 | Philadelphia and West Grove, PA, Camden, NJ | Youth |
The Literacy Center external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2020 | Attleboro, MA | Adults |
The Reading League, Inc. external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2020 | United States, Canada, Australia | Educators |
Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE) external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2020 | Dominican Republic | Students |
Writers in the Schools external link | Best Practice Honoree | 2020 | Texas | Youth & Adults |
Associates in Research and Education for Development (ARED) external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2021 | Africa | All ages |
Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2021 | United States | Children, Youth, Families |
Books for Kids Foundation external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2021 | United States | Children & Youth |
Friends of Tonga external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2021 | Kindgom of Tonga | All ages & Teachers |
FunDza Literacy Trust external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2021 | South Africa | All ages, Families, Teachers |
Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2021 | Haiti | Children |
Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2021 | Multinational | All ages |
Literacy Connects external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2021 | Arizona | All ages & Families |
Literacy Minnesota external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2021 | United States | All ages |
Raising a Reader external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2021 | United States | All ages, families, teachers |
Seeds of Literacy external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2021 | United States | Adults |
The Citizens Foundation external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2021 | Pakistan | All ages & Teachers |
The Learning Source external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2021 | Denver, CO | All ages |
VALUEUSA external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2021 | United States | All ages |
Concern Worldwide Niger external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2022 | Niger | All ages & Teachers |
DIBS for Kids external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2022 | United States | Children |
Dominican Republic Education and Mentoring (DREAM) Project external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2022 | Dominican Republic | Children, Youth, Families, Teachers |
Impact Network International external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2022 | Zambia | All Ages & Teachers |
International Literacy and Development external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2022 | Multinational | All ages, Families, Refugees |
Kids Read Now external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2022 | United States | All ages & Teachers |
Literacy Achieves external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2022 | Dallas, TX | All ages & Families |
Literacy Action, Inc. (Permanently Closed)external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2022 | Atlanta, GA | Youth, Adults, Seniors |
Literacy Network external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2022 | Dane County, WI | Adults & Seniors |
ReadWorks, Inc. external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2022 | United States | Children, Youth, Teachers |
ServeMinnesota (Reading Corps) external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2022 | Minnesota, Florida, Wisconsin, Iowa, Colorado, North Dakota, Washington D.C., Maryland, Virginia, Massachusetts, Michigan, California, Missouri, Mississippi | Children & Teachers |
World Education external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2022 | U.S., Africa, and Asia | All ages |
The News Literacy Project external link | David M. Rubenstein Prize | 2023 | United States | All ages |
Downtown Boxing Gym external link | American Prize | 2023 | Detroit, Michigan | Children & Youth |
Worldreader external link | International Prize | 2023 | Multinational | Children, Teachers, Families |
Ako Aotearoa's Manako Program external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2023 | New Zealand | Adults |
Book Love Foundation external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2023 | United States and Canada | Teachers & Students |
BookSpring external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2023 | Texas | Children, Parents, Teachers |
Building Tomorrow external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2023 | Uganda | All ages, Teachers, Blind or Print Disabled, Deaf and/or Hearing Impaired |
Compassion Books external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2023 | Vietnam | All Ages |
Dominican Literacy Center, Aurora external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2023 | Aurora, Illinois | Youth, Adults, Seniors |
Get Lit - Words Ignite's Uni(verse) Program external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2023 | United States | Children, Youth, Teachers |
An Open Book Foundation external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2023 | Washington D.C. | Children, Youth, Teachers |
Pakistan Alliance for Girls Education (PAGE) external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2023 | Pakistan | Children & Youth |
PEAS (Promoting Equality in African Schools) external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2023 | Uganda and Zambia | Children, Youth, Families, Teachers |
Queens Borough Public Library external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2023 | Queens, New York | Children & Youth |
Rio Grande Valley Literacy Center external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2023 | Rio Grande Valley, Texas | Adults & Seniors |
Virginia Children's Book Festival (VCBF) external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2023 | Virginia | Children, Youth, Teachers, Deaf and/or Hearing Impaired |
WISE Zambia external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2023 | Zambia | Youth |
Yayasan Sulinama's Collaboration with INOVASI external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2023 | Indonesia | All Ages, Blind or Print Disabled, Deaf and/or Hearing Impaired |
The LaundryCares Foundation external link | David M. Rubenstein Prize | 2024 | United States | Children & Families |
Te Rūnanga Nui o Ngā Kura Kaupapa Māori Inc. external link | Kislak Family Foundation Prize | 2024 | New Zealand | Children, Youth, Families, All ages, Teachers |
We Need Diverse Booksexternal link | American Prize | 2024 | United States | Children, Youth, Adults, Teachers |
Alsama Project external link | International Prize | 2024 | Beirut, Lebanon | Children & Youth |
Aalam Bibi Trust external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2024 | Lahore and Muridkay, Pakistan | All ages, Children, Youth, Adults, Families, Deaf and/or hearing-impared |
Charmaghz external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2024 | Kabul, Afghanistan | Children |
Cotsen Foundation for the ART of TEACHING external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2024 | Los Angeles and Orange Counties, California | Children, Teachers, Principals and Other Educational Administrators |
Cuyahoga County Public Library external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2024 | Cuyahoga County, Ohio | Children, Youth, Adults, Seniors, Families, All ages, Teachers, Blind or Print-disabled, Deaf and/or hearing-impaired |
Educational Arts Team external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2024 | Hudson and Essex Counties, New Jersey | Children, Youth, Families |
Enhancing Children's Lives Organization external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2024 | Afghanistan, Haiti, India, Pakistan, United States | Children, Youth, Adults |
Everybody Wins DC external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2024 | Washington, D.C.; Arlington, VA; Montgomery County, MD | Children |
Help Us Grow Foundation (H.U.G.) external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2024 | Kentucky, Florida, Massachusetts | Children, Youth, Adults, Seniors, Teachers |
Impact Network's Read Smart Cinyanja Program external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2024 | Zambia | Children, Youth, Adults, Teachers |
The Literacy Lab external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2024 | Washington, D.C.; Baltimore, MD; Richmond, Hampton Roads, and Danville, VA; Atlanta, GA; Springfield and Holyoke, MA; Cincinnati, OH; St. Louis, MO; Milwaukee, WI; Phoenix, AZ | Children & Youth |
One World Education's One World Academy external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2024 | Washington, D.C. | Children & Youth |
School the World external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2024 | Boston, MA; Guatemala, Honduras and Panama | Children, Youth, Adults, Teachers |
Shout Mouse Press external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2024 | Greater Washington D.C. area | Children & Youth |
Universal Reading Foundation external link | Successful Practices Honoree | 2024 | Poland | Children, Families, Teachers, Doctors, Librarians |
Brooklyn Book Bodega, Inc. external link | Emerging Strategies Honoree | 2024 | New York City, NY | Children, Youth, Families, Teachers |
Safford City - Graham County Library external link | Emerging Strategies Honoree | 2024 | Arizona | Families & All ages |
Latinx KidLit Book Festival, Inc. external link | Emerging Strategies Honoree | 2024 | United States and International | All ages, Children, Youth, Adults, Teachers |
The Sami Parliament external link | Emerging Strategies Honoree | 2024 | Norway | All ages, Children, Adults, Seniors, Families |
William Paterson University (Real Men Read) external link | Emerging Strategies Honoree | 2024 | Greater Passaic and Bergen Counties, NJ | Youth, Adults, Seniors |