The Russell Life Skills and Reading Foundation, Inc. is dedicated to providing young people with the fundamental tools essential to success. It does this by emphasizing the importance of reading as a purely educational tool and as a means through which young people could experience the world beyond their immediate communities. At the Russell Life Skills and Reading Foundation, we Open Books to Open Doors.

The following items would be of tremendous help:

• Book bags for back-to-school
• School supplies (composition notebooks, refill paper, pencils, dry erase markers, etc.  During the summer there are countless penny sales)
• Barnes & Noble gift cards (order all curriculum books from them)
• New toys for our Christmas Program (200 kids ages 7-14)
• Copier paper
• Catering: Teacher Appreciation Picnic