I picked up a bookmark from the UPS store that reads:

Deliver Hope.
The Toys for Tots Literacy Program offers our nation’s most economically disadvantaged children the ability to compete academically and to succeed in life by providing direct access to resources that will enhance their ability to read and to communicate effectively.

100% of the proceeds benefit children in our community.

www.toysfortotsliteracy.org

I recently wrote an essay about the importance of reading in the lives of famous Americans like George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Abraham Lincoln. If you have any doubt about how much reading can change a child’s life (and America’s destiny), take the time to read the article:

Link: Unchain Your Brain Part 2: Reading

Here is another essay I wrote about Frederick Douglass that demonstrates how he linked literacy to freedom:

Link: With High Hope, and a Fixed Purpose

We should all support the program in two ways:

1. Donate books at your UPS store.

2. Get a stack of bookmarks from your UPS store and ask your local bookstore to display them at the cash register.