I READ I LEAD:
Nashville's First Culturally Inclusive and Affirming City-Wide
Literacy Campaign for Black and Brown Boys
This MBK Nashville literacy campaign, I READ I LEAD, will have a heavy targeted countywide marketing component aimed to express the importance of the literacy crisis and the opportunities for Black and Brown boys. We will reiterate to our young males and their families the importance of literacy as a tool for liberation, self-agency, academic growth as well as exposure to the world around them.
We also will be ensuring this campaign will have a grassroots/community element that is cultural and socially inclusive and engaging. Critical to the success of our campaign will be the ways in which we narrate the data, and the necessary action steps, via an equity driven and culturally affirming lens.
We also will be ensuring this campaign will have a grassroots/community element that is cultural and socially inclusive and engaging. Critical to the success of our campaign will be the ways in which we narrate the data, and the necessary action steps, via an equity driven and culturally affirming lens.
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20 Stacks Book Drive
Over the next year MBK Nashville will collect a total of 20,000 culturally-affirming books for distribution throughout the city. Our phase 1 goal is to collect 10,000 books between Juneteenth 2022 and December 15, 2022. Become a Literacy Superhero by clicking one of the buttons below to purchase a book from our MBK Nashville's Amazon Wish List, and the book will be shipped directly to MBK Nashville. You can also make a financial contribution to MBK Nashville through the donate tab of this website and we can make the book purchases on your behalf.
RISE, READ & LEAD Reading Mentor Events
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MBK Nashville is proud to partner with various MNPS schools, the United Way, the Blueprint for Early Childhood Success, Humanities TN and the Juvenile Court Clerk's Office to recruit men to participate in this Reading Mentor Event. Once a month we ask men from the community to come together as Literacy Superheroes at a school or community space to read with our kids. We believe in a world where every child can read.
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Community Book Fairs and "Lit Walks"
As part of our distribution plan, MBK Nashville plans to partner with community organizations and religious institutions to host community book fairs. We also plan to partner with MDHA to host "Lit Walks", where we walk around the community giving out books and materials to help parents/guardians better support their students, on their properties countywide. Both of these tools will allow us to put culturally-affirming books directly in the hands of children that need them most.
Books Brothers: Story Times with Men of Color
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Books Brothers brings men of color to the classroom to promote literacy and serve as reading role models through pre-recorded videos. The volunteer readers share quality children’s books for K-3 students through video story times, with a focus on books that allow students of color to see themselves in the pages. Presented in partnership with Nashville Public Library, My Brother’s Keeper Nashville, Ingram Industries and United Way of Greater Nashville.
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free, high-quality books to children from birth to age five, no matter their family’s income.
MBK Nashville I READ I LEAD Partners
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