As SAYL reaches the end of its fiscal year, we want to take the opportunity to once again thank those who have been so supportive of our organization. For all our individual Friends of SAYL who made donations this year; for those who participated in the Big Give campaign; for the
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Executive Director Note – July 2019
“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, by A.A. Milne It is hard to believe that it has been a month already since we said goodbye to our Reading Buddies and wished them all that is good for their
Book Buddies Update – June 2019
Book Celebtrations: All the hard work that Book Buddies volunteers put in this year came to fruition the last week of May at our end-of-year Book Celebrations. This year we were able to provide 60,000 books to 10,000 children in 20 Title I schools in the San Antonio Independent School
Donor Spotlight – June 2019
A special thank you to the following foundations for their continued assistance – $350 from The Frankie Casseb Youth Literacy Club for its quarterly donation, $2,500 from the Education Forum, and $5,000 from the Mays Family Foundation. These organizations continue to support SAYL’s efforts to address the literacy needs of San Antonio’s
Executive Director’s Note – June 2019
So, we have made another trip around the sun that is the school year. I have the privilege of starting my 4th year of serving as Executive Director of this incredible organization – San Antonio Youth Literacy. I can’t possibly express the joy and fulfillment I experience every day knowing
Donor Spotlight – May 2019
A huge THANK YOU to CPS Energy for their recent donation of $20,000. Their ongoing support to the communities in which they live, work and serve through causes that aid, empower, enrich and educate allows San Antonio Youth Literacy to continue to deliver our SAYL Reading Buddy Program to those children struggling to
School Spotlight – May 2019
Congratulations to Boone Elementary in NISD for being SAYL’s school of the month for May! Boone Elementary became a partner campus just last school year, and we have so enjoyed working with them. Site Director, Carmen Cervantes, has helped to ensure volunteers and SAYL staff have up to date reading
Volunteer Spotlight – May 2019
Congratulations to our Reading Buddy of the Month – Connie Sharon! Connie has been an amazing Reading Buddy at Clear Spring Elementary in NEISD since she joined after learning about our program through two friends who are Reading Buddies, and after seeing us at the A Way With Words show
Executive Director’s Note – May 2019
“I think it’s the books that we read when you’re young that live with you forever.” – J.K. Rowling Every month I try to find a quote by a person of note that I believe, if I were ever fortunate enough to have dinner with, would totally endorse the mission
Book Buddies Update – May 2019
April was a very busy month at Book Buddies. Our terrific volunteers contributed more than 300 hours of sorting, counting, and boxing donated books. They were so efficient and on-task that they regularly emptied a huge container of books in a two-hour session. This is a tremendous amount of work, but our volunteers