# 2025 Literacy Awards Recipients

The Library of Congress Literacy Awards honor nonprofit organizations that have made outstanding contributions to increasing literacy in the United States or abroad. This short video highlights the 2025 Library of Congress Literacy Awards winners and honorees. Learn more about the inspiring and innovative work of the Literacy Partners (2025 David M. Rubenstein Prize recipient), Literacy Mid-South (2025 Kislak Family Foundation Prize recipient), Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities’ Prime Time Family Reading Program (2025 American Prize recipient), Building Tomorrow (2025 International Prize recipient), and the following 20 organizations that are honored for their successful practices and emerging strategies in literacy promotion:

Book Harvest’s Books from Birth Program

CitySchools Collaborative

Digital Inquiry Group

Indy Reads

Knowledge Empowering Youth (KEY)

NABU

NPR’s Student Podcast Challenge

Philadelphia Writing Project

READ Global

Reading Assist

Richland County Public Library’s Education Studio

Scottish Book Trust’s Bookbug Program

SML Good Neighbors, Inc.

Start A Library Trust’s The National Read Aloud Initiative

WETA’s Colorín Colorado Emerging Strategies Honorees

Dyslexia Alliance for Black Children

Loxion Mobile Library

Start Lighthouse, Inc.

Teach for Change Nigeria’s Literacy Amidst Violent Conflict Initiative (LAVC)

Welcome Home Jersey City’s Literary Initiative

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2025
- Runtime: 6 min
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/video-11278/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/loc/video-11278?play=1)