Connecting: To learn, share, evolve, and strengthen, we must first be connected. The Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading provides opportunities to bring people, organizations, and communities together, strategically linking Internal Stakeholders (CEO/ED, board, staff, donors, and volunteers); External Stakeholders (people, businesses, other nonprofits, government, and the media); and Areas (local, regional, statewide, national, and global communities).

Learning: The time spent listening, asking questions, and exploring builds mutual understanding, and mutual understanding fosters the development of trust.

Sharing: The Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading believes that important assets — including information, knowledge, skills, and expertise — strengthen the impact of initiatives when they are spread through collaboration. Sharing is the pivotal point linking the power of connecting and learning to opportunities for evolving and strengthening.

Evolving: “Change happens at the speed of trust” is one of the Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading’s key tenets. As confidence grows, the belief in new possibilities begins to emerge, and meaningful changes are made toward positive transformations.

Strengthening: The Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading supports the efforts of people, organizations, and communities by focusing on issues that address mutual aspirations, foster wide participation, and encourage learning and sharing.

Caring: With its many initiatives — regardless of the aspiration or geography involved — SCGLR channels empathy and compassion for our world. The unfettered charter undergirding its efforts allows SCGLR to undertake work in ways others are not doing, cannot do, or will not do. This affords SCGLR unique opportunities to create meaningful change through its philanthropy, and it’s one for which we are ever grateful. Knowing and embracing what’s possible through our work allows each of us to live and work in the spirit of joyful stewardship.

Connecting: SCGLR’s approach is organized around the principle that, to learn, share, evolve, and strengthen, we must first be connected. SCGLR provides opportunities to bring people, organizations, and communities together, strategically linking Internal Stakeholders (CEO/executive director, board, staff, donors, volunteers, and beneficiaries); External Stakeholders (people, businesses, nonprofits, government, and the media); and Areas (local, regional, statewide, national, and global communities).

Collaborating: When SCGLR seeks to strengthen outcomes within shared aspirations, it looks to the organizations and entities at the forefront of the ongoing work in that space. Rather than arrive at its work with the answer, SCGLR strives to learn from those actively creating the kind of future people aspire to live in, finding opportunities to strengthen their efforts while continuing to introduce them to other mission-aligned causes and organizations.

Contributing: As a fully endowed charitable entity, SCGLR has substantial resources to help strengthen those with which it collaborates. However, the true value of SCGLR’s support goes far beyond any one-time check. With an eye toward long-term thrivability and mission impact, SCGLR exercises agility in its response to emerging funding opportunities while creating opportunities to catalyze additional support from donors big and small to these organizations and networks.

Creating: The Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading supports the efforts of people, organizations, and communities by focusing on issues that address mutual aspirations, foster wide participation, and encourage learning and sharing.