Mark your Calendars! SAYL will be hosting our annual fundraiser on Thursday, October 13th, 2022 from 6-9 P.M. at Legacy Park. This adult-only event will feature a spelling bee and a BBQ Dinner with drinks. Funds will benefit our vision that every child in South Texas enters 3rd grade reading
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Donor Spotlight – March 2019
A huge THANK YOU to the following organizations for their ongoing support, allowing San Antonio Youth Literacy the opportunity to continue to deliver its SAYL Reading Buddy Program to those children struggling to read on grade level. $20,000 from the Whitacre Family Foundation, $1,300 from Grande Communications Grande Cares Club,
Executive Director Note – March 2019
“For it is in giving that we receive.” Saint Francis of Assisi Every year in March, for the past several years, San Antonio Youth Literacy has participated in The Big Give. This year will be no exception. On March 28, the Non-Profit Council will once again be sponsoring The Big
BOOK BUDDY NEWS – MARCH 2019
OUR VOLUNTEERS: Book Buddies volunteers have swung into high gear to get those books ready for our Book Celebrations in the schools next May. Our most loyal group again this year has been the Reagan High School chapter of the National Honor Society. They have been at our facility nearly
Book Buddy News
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR BOOK BUDDY FRIENDS! Our Volunteers. Working right up to the holidays, Book Buddies volunteers sorted and boxed donated books to get them ready for our spring Book Celebrations. As always, the Reagan High School chapter of the National Honor Society has been sending volunteers
Executive Director Note – July 2018
“You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild to pick up a book and read to a child.” – Dr. Seuss Well, we have been off the grid for a bit. We have been reconstructing our website and by we, I mean Mary Flannigan, our Communications and Partnerships Director and a
August 2018 Newsletter
Read up on all the latest happening with SAYL! Upcoming events, Reading Buddy updates, & more! Your Monthly News & Updates – August 2018 A Note from Our Executive Director “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt Well we have
February 2018 Newsletter
Read up on all the latest happening with SAYL! Upcoming events, Reading Buddy updates, & more! Your Monthly News & Updates – February 2018 A Note from Our Executive Director “I feel the need of reading. It is a loss to man not to have grown up among books.” – Abraham Lincoln
December 2018 Newsletter
Read up on all the latest happening with SAYL! Upcoming events, Reading Buddy updates, & more! Your Monthly News & Updates – December 2018 Chair’s Challenge – Join the Tribe! San Antonio Youth Literacy has a vision that every child in South Texas enters third grade reading at level. But
March 2016 Newsletter
Read up on all the latest happening with SAYL! Upcoming events, Reading Buddy updates, & more! Your Monthly News & Updates – March 2016 A Note from Our ED I am thrilled to announce that San Antonio Youth Literacy will be participating in the San Antonio Regional Forum on Public