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Motheread, Inc. is a nationally acclaimed private, non-profit organization that combines the teaching of literacy skills with child development and family empowerment issues. Parents and children learn to use the power of language to discover more about themselves, their families, and their communities. Motheread offers classes for both adults and children. In adult classes, participants learn to be story readers, writers, and tellers in a group structure that supports their own sense of worth and ability. These classes are appropriate for all adults, regardless of reading ability or prior educational experience. By teaching the "why" of reading rather than just emphasizing the "how," classes encourage parents to be reading role models for their children. For children, Story Exploring provides a structured environment for learning reading, critical-thinking, and problem solving skills. Our teaching approach with adults has been recognized for excellence by the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, Laubach Literacy International, and the International Reading Association. Our work with children has been featured in Parenting, People, and Book magazines and Jim Trelease's Read Aloud Handbook. Founded in Raleigh in 1987, Motheread, Inc. has grown into a national training and curriculum development organization with a multi-state affiliate network. Currently, there are state-level offices in 8 states and 2 territories, with nonaffiliated programs in 30 additional states. The affiliates are humanities councils, which are funded in part through the National Endowment for the Humanities and through private donations, foundations, corporations, and, in some cases, state governments. The affiliates are in Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Guam, Hawaii, the Mariana Islands, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. The National Office in Raleigh coordinates programming throughout the rest of North Carolina and South Carolina. Motheread, Inc. is supported with funding from The ChildTrust Foundation, Wake County SmartStart, the North Carolina Community College System Office, the North Carolina Department of Correction, Wake County Human Services, as well as other grants, contractual partnerships, and individual and corporate gifts. Motheread, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization. Financial contributions are tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by law.