NAA Foundation Partners
D.E.A.R. and HarperCollins Children’s Books
For the past two years, the NAA Foundation has collaborated with National Drop Everything And Read Day and HarperCollins Children’s Books to offer serialized versions of works by Beverly Cleary. Every year on April 12 – Beverly Cleary’s birthday – D.E.A.R. encourages families throughout the United States to drop everything … and read.
HarperCollins Children’s Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, is home to many of the classics of children's literature. Titles in its catalog include “Ramona the Pest,” “The Mouse and the Motorcycle,” “Goodnight Moon,” “Where the Wild Things Are,” “The Giving Tree,” “Charlotte's Web,” “Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse” and the “I Can Read” beginning reader series.
Gifts In Kind
The NAA Foundation partners with Gifts In Kind International, the leading charity in product philanthropy, to enhance programs designed to encourage student achievement through Newspaper in Education (NIE), youth content and student newspapers. Participants in these programs have access to technology and other educational products that will allow them to boost the impact of their endeavors. For information about donation programs available to NIE professionals, youth editors and student newspaper advisers, click here or send an e-mail to Virginia Royal at vroyal@giftsinkind.org.
My Wonderful World
The NAA Foundation supports My Wonderful World, a National Geographic-led campaign to expand geographic learning in school, at home and in communities. The My Wonderful World coalition, a group of national businesses and nonprofit organizations, works to build public awareness of the need for more geographic education. Click here to find out how you can help give kids the power of global knowledge.
North American Securities Administration Association
The NAA Foundation has teamed up with the North American Securities Administration Association to offer “FSI: Fraud Scene Investigator.”
This interactive program helps students learn how to fight fraud firsthand by delving into newspaper stock tables, researching companies through online news, and deciphering the truth of investments from fraudulent sales pitches. In the initial FSI program, “Suitable Investments,” students help uncover a million-dollar fraud in progress and put the mysterious con man, “Mr. X,” behind bars.
The program, along with a corresponding guide for teachers, is available free for use in classrooms and at home through the NASAA Web site. Click here for more.
