Non-Profit Of The Month

We believe in working as a community to build an equitable world where all children are strong, confident readers who succeed in school and in life.  Founded by Isaac Coleman and a group of community activists, R2S has served more than 2,500 PreK- 5th grade students over the past fifteen years. Read more about our vision, mission, and core values here.

What We Do

One of the most potent ways to support a child’s academic and life success is by supporting their literacy achievement at an early age. In the U.S., however, two out of every three 4th grade students does not read at grade level. There is a literacy crisis occurring across our country and in our Western North Carolina communities. Many children enter kindergarten already behind in their reading, and research shows that students not reading on grade level by the end of third grade are 4X more likely than their peers to drop out of school.

Asheville has the fifth largest achievement gap nationwide and the largest racial achievement gap between Black and white students statewide for all of North Carolina’s 115 school districts.