KinderHarvest - magazine supply chain recycling to child & family literacy consumers.

• Magazines are vital, and powerful reading resources for child and family literacy programs.
  
  
• Magazines are compelling reading tools - vibrant, topical, timely, and fun.

MagazineLiteracy.org is teaming with magazine supply chain stakeholders, end to end - Publishers, National Distributors, Wholesalers, Retail Newsstands, and Consumers - to send magazines that would otherwise be destroyed to community literacy programs.

KinderHarvest is like food gleaning, a practice that is thousands of years old, where crops left in the field are gathered by humanitarians to feed hungry people.

KinderHarvest feeds children and families hungry to read and succeed by sending surplus, but invaluable magazines as reading resources to teachers and other community literacy agents in after-school programs, homeless and domestic violence shelters, foster care, job centers, food pantries, and disaster relief efforts.

KinderHarvest has already rescued surplus magazines from Publishers, sending them to children and families in bags and backpacks of groceries from food pantries, and to tens of thousands of children rebuilding their young lives from Hurricane Katrina.

KinderHarvest breathes new life into magazines otherwise headed for shredding - matching predictable, useful surplus to specific literacy program needs in thousands of U.S. communities.

Each magazine distribution stakeholder has a vital role in KinderHarvest. Contact us to join the harvest.

Remember back to your favorite magazines as a child and you realize that magazines are about hopes and dreams, and learning, and stretching our imaginations toward the brightest possibilities.

Now imagine what magazines can mean to children and families striving for better days, and for the teachers and other community literacy agents helping them learn to read and to hope and to dream.

• Imagine hungry children, sitting down to a nutritious meal at an after-school program, and then reading a wonderful kid's magazine with their volunteer mentors, or a family with no reading materials at home finding a magazine in the bag of groceries they receive from the food pantry.
  
  
• Imagine a mother and child at a domestic violence shelter, finding safety, settling in, and reading magazines to pass the time together. Then each child leaving with a magazine labeled to say it's their very own.
  
  
• Imagine a new foster family trying to connect with a battered child rescued from broken parents by sharing a magazine article about the constellations that will be in the sky that evening.
  
  
• Imagine an apprentice beautician enrolled in a community job training program flipping through the latest fashion and style magazines for inspiration.
  
  
• Imagine a displaced family moving into a new home built by their neighbors, stocked with necessities, with beautiful lifestyle magazines on their new coffee table, and delicious food magazines in their new kitchen.
  
  
• Imagine a community's rebuilt literacy center shelves, filled with brightly colored magazines of all kinds, after being blown down into a hurricane's knee deep water.
  
  
• It takes an industry to reach a child and to lift a family. Imagine what our campaign to end illiteracy can accomplish by tapping the awesome capabilities of the entire magazine publishing industry.
  
  
• Imagine...