September Newsletter 2025

Monthly Newsletters

Happy Birthday to Our Champion for Literacy, Page Turner!

Join us in celebrating Page’s 6th birthday on September 8th, which is also World Literacy Day!

You can make this milestone even more meaningful by giving the gift of literacy. Become part of Page’s Monthly Giving Club and help struggling readers across Houston build confidence and a love for reading.

Together, we can turn the page toward a brighter future.

$10 per month – provides 3 books to children
$25 per month – provides take home literacy supplies
$35 per month – provides in classroom learning materials

The above amounts are samples. Every dollar goes a long way to empower kids to read!

Click here to support our kids!

Welcome!

We are excited to announce that Kinsey Wick has joined our Board of Directors! 

Kinsey is a Tax Senior Manager in the Private Wealth practice at Deloitte Tax LLP. Kinsey has worked at Deloitte for 13 years, starting her career as an intern while attending college. During her tenure at Deloitte, Kinsey has gained extensive experience providing objective tax and wealth planning advice and services to private companies and their owners, as well as affluent individuals, their families, and charitable entities. Kinsey holds a master’s degree in finance and bachelor’s degree in accounting from Texas A&M University and is a registered CPA in the state of Texas.

Kinsey from Texas A&M in 2012 and loves to travel back to Aggieland for football games. Her hobbies include traveling, cheering on the Astros, listening to a good audiobook, attending workout classes, and starting a new needlepoint project. Kinsey and her husband have two sons. After serving as a reading coach throughout high school, college, and beyond it was a natural progression to serve on the board of an organization with the same focus. Through her involvement with Literacy Now, Kinsey wants to help provide opportunities to as many kids as we can in the greater Houston community.

It’s Officially Magnums Season!  

A big THANK YOU to our amazing partners at BoyarMiller, our gala chairs, Britain & Jeremy Garner, and the Host Committee for helping us kick off our 17th Annual Magnums gala. This year promises fresh and unforgettable moments, so mark your calendars to join us on Saturday, November 15th, at the St. Regis. 

Click here for more information and to secure your spot.

Young Professionals for the Win

What an incredible evening of BINGO, networking, and giving back! Thanks to all of the amazing Young Professionals who joined us and helped make our supply drive a success. We appreciate all that you do for the community! 

Do you want to be part of this fun, exciting group that’s making an impact in Houston? Contact Precious Daniels today to learn how you can get involved.

One mission, One vision, One community. 

Literacy Now recently kicked off the new school year with our August All-Staff meeting, where we launched our new theme for the year, We Are ONE!

We are so excited to return to schools and community sites to support struggling readers and their families.