Get Involved

Behind every child who beats the odds is a parent who refused to give up.

Whether you give, gather your community, or share what you learned, there’s a role here for you.

A parent connecting with the Imagine Reading community

Donate

Fund the infrastructure families rely on.

Host a Screening

Bring Left Behind to your community.

Join our community

Connect with other parents, and help us reach the next family.

Where your gift goes

Every dollar funds the infrastructure families rely on.

We are not funding a service that competes with the tutors and evaluators already doing this work. We are funding the connective tissue: the guide that is free forever, the hub that tells a family in a small town who is actually near them, and the film that gets a whole community into one room. These examples show the scale of what different gifts make possible.

$25

Equips one family with the First Steps guide and a meeting checklist.

$100

Connects one rural family to specialists via the hub.

$500

Adds a whole region’s worth of vetted resources to the national hub.

$1,000

Funds one state’s full resource build-out.

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Host a screening

Bring Left Behind to your community.

Request a screening kit, everything you need to host and turn a film night into action.

Screenings are the fastest thing we do. After a single viewing, the share of the audience who understood how race and class affect access to dyslexia support rose from 34% to 74%. That is a room full of teachers, school board members, and parents leaving with a different picture of the problem than the one they walked in with.

Schools, libraries, churches, PTAs, film societies, and district staff have all hosted. You do not need a cinema or a budget. You need a room, a screen, and someone willing to stay for the conversation afterwards.

  • Film screening license + streaming link
  • Facilitation guide + discussion questions
  • Parent advocacy handout, “What to do next”
  • IEP rights one-pager by state
  • QR code link to the resource hub
  • Expert Q&A support (select events)

Request a screening kit

Built by parents, for parents

Join our community.

At Imagine Reading, we want to create a community for parents to support each other and learn from one another, across communities and states.

If you want to help drive change where you live, and possibly become an Imagine Reading Ambassador for your state or region, fill out the form. We will get in touch with more guidance on what being an Ambassador involves and how to start making connections in your community. And if you are a parent who needs help right now, fill out the form so we can connect you with what you need today.

1 · About you

Sharing your name and email lets us welcome you and stay in touch. It is optional, and you can still share your story without it.

2 · Your story
3 · What has been hardest

Tick anything that matches. This is how one family’s experience becomes a number we can take to schools and lawmakers.

Your contact details stay inside Imagine Reading. We never share, sell, or trade them, and we never publish your story without asking you first.

What happens next

No surprises after you hit send.

The most common reason a parent closes a form is not knowing what it signs them up for. So here is exactly what each one does.

If you give

Your gift is processed securely through Bloomerang and your card details never touch our servers. You get a tax receipt straight away, because we are a registered 501(c)(3). After that you hear from us when something actually changed, not on a schedule. We never sell, rent, or trade donor information, and you can stop the updates with one click.

If you request a screening kit

We reply with the film license and streaming link, the facilitation guide, and the printable handouts. Then a person talks it through with you: room size, who to invite, and what to put in front of people at the end so the evening turns into something. A screening with no next step is a nice night out. We would rather help you run the other kind.

If you join the community

We add you to the parent community, and a person reads what you wrote. If you ticked the newsletter box, we add you to that too. Your contact details stay inside Imagine Reading and are never shared, sold, or traded. Nothing you write is published unless you say yes. If you told us you are open to it, we will also be in touch about becoming an Ambassador where you live, with more guidance on what that involves.

Every action helps the next family.

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