Impact
We measure what matters: stronger readers, families with practical money skills, and young people who can see and plan a future. Here is what our work is built to achieve.
Read to Wealth leads the way
Read to Wealth is the largest initiative currently underway at Legacy Builders Foundation. The funded initiative serves youth in grades 3 through 6 and supports literacy growth, financial learning, family engagement, and future economic confidence.
The initiative is designed to serve 75 at-risk youth from underserved Aurora, Illinois neighborhoods, with particular attention to below-grade-level readers and English Language Learners, since these students often need both stronger reading support and additional context for new vocabulary and concepts.
How we measure progress
We track reading progress, participation, and family involvement throughout each program cycle, and we share what we learn with families, partners, and funders in plain language.
Literacy growth
Reading support that strengthens fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary for students working below grade level and for English Language Learners.
Financial learning
Age-appropriate lessons that introduce saving, spending choices, and goal setting in language students in grades 3 through 6 can understand and use.
Family engagement
Materials and activities that invite caregivers into the learning process so progress continues at home between sessions.
Future economic confidence
Early exposure to financial concepts that builds comfort and confidence carrying into later school years and adulthood.
2026 Youth Literacy Grant Award Recipient
Dollar General Literacy Foundation
Legacy Builders Foundation received a Youth Literacy grant award from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation to support Read to Wealth: Youth Literacy & Financial Empowerment Program. The award funds literacy instruction and age-appropriate financial learning for youth in Aurora, Illinois.
Program Goals for Read to Wealth
The targets below are the goals Read to Wealth is designed to reach during the funded program cycle. They describe what we are working toward with students and families, not results already achieved.
- 80%
of participants demonstrating at least one full grade level of reading growth
- 85%
scoring 80% or higher on a post-program youth financial literacy assessment
- 80%
successfully completing a personal savings-goal project
- 90%
maintaining 85% or better attendance
- 70%
of participating families reporting improved parent-child financial conversations
Help us reach more students and families
Every additional partner and supporter expands the number of youth and families who can take part in our programs.