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		Our Environmental Partners Encourage your class to read 100 books by by Earth Day, April 22, 2010. All books count, whether they are read at school or at home! Canopy Canopy is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to making the conservation of wild places a reality. They work to protect the world's forests, species and climate by partnering with the business community and public to change purchasing practices and increase support for green paper products. Their efforts generate interest and support for forest protection and sustainable management as they work to ensure the world's forests remain strong and standing, our species abundant, our ecosystems healthy and our climate protected. Canopy has worked closely with ally organizations to translate companies’ environmental policies into landmark conservation gains in BC’s Great Bear Rainforest and Canada’s Boreal forests. To learn more about Canopy and the work they do, visit www.canopyplanet.org. "Our forest heritage literally breathes life into us and wonder into children’s minds. For over a decade Canopy has worked with the publishing industry in Canada and around the world to help them shift to the use of environmentally sound paper. When we save forests we save species like bears, caribou, billions of songbirds and the terrestrial home to billions of tons of stored carbon. The health of our forests is a legacy for the future and who has a greater interest in that than the kids of today?" —Nicole Rycroft, Executive Director, Canopy Back to top Wildlife Conservation Society The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a recognized global leader in conservation, dedicated to assuring a future for threatened species and places. WCS Canada’s mission is to conserve wildlife and wild places by understanding critical issues, developing science-based solutions, and working with others to deliver conservation projects throughout Canada. They implement and support comprehensive field studies that gather information on wildlife needs and then seek to resolve key conservation problems with a variety of partners. WCS Canada is independently registered and managed, while maintaining a strong working relationship with sister WCS programs in more than 55 countries. To learn more about Wildlife Conservation Society Canada and the work they do, visit www.wcscanada.org. "Scholastic Canada is making a difference to kids and to wildlife across Canada. Through their imaginative Classrooms Care program supporting both child literacy and Wildlife Conservation Society Canada’s efforts to protect Canada’s boreal forests, everyone involved comes out a winner. Our future leaders and decision-makers – the kids of today - will have a vital role to play in continuing to protect Canada’s wildlife and wild places and this partnership is key to making it happen. In the end, all Canadians can learn to share our forests and lakes with caribou, wolverine, grizzlies and other important wildlife." —Justina Ray, Executive Director and Senior Scientist, Wildlife Conservation Society Canada Back to top Our Literacy Partners Encourage your class to read 100 books by January 22, 2010. All books count, whether they are read at school or at home! First Book® First Book is an international non-profit organization with a single mission: to provide children from low-income families with the opportunity to read and own their first new books. Since its founding in 1992, First Book has distributed more than 50 million new books to children in need. Now qualified as a registered charity in Canada, First Book/Le Premier Livre stands ready to reduce barriers to book ownership by offering free and affordable new books to programs reaching the most disadvantaged children in Canada, ensuring every child is able to experience the joy of reading. To find out more about First Book/Le Premier Livre, please visit www.firstbook.org/canada. "Research tells us that the single critical factor which determines whether a child becomes a reader is access to reading materials specifically, the number of books in the home. First Book puts brand new books into the hands of children who need them most, enabling them to experience the joy and wonder of reading." —Kyle Zimmer, President and Co-founder, First Book/Le Premier Livre Back to top Frontier College Frontier College is a Canada-wide, volunteer-based literacy organization. Since 1899, Frontier College has been developing and delivering literacy programs across the country. In order to meet the increasing literacy needs of a knowledge-based society, Frontier College has recruited thousands of volunteers across Canada to reach children in high-needs communities as well as adults with particular learning needs. Frontier College believes literacy is a right for all. To learn more about Frontier College, please visit www.frontiercollege.ca. "Frontier College is part of a great heritage in Canadian history... a heritage known as popular or non-formal education. This heritage recognizes that all people have the desire and the capacity to learn and that education takes place everywhere in the community, not just in the classrooom. It is these methods and these teaching approaches that enable us to teach all citizens, especially those that are most isolated and dispossessed." —Sandi Kirevago, Director of Communications, Frontier College Back to top Fondation pour l'alphabétisation The Literacy Foundation works to prevent illiteracy through its grassroots project, The Gift of Reading®. Since 1999, more than 195,000 underprivileged children in Quebec have received a new book through the Literacy Foundation. The Gift of Reading reaches out to children from infancy to age 12, as well as to parents who have difficulty reading and writing. To find out more about Literacy Foundation, visit www.fondationalphabetisation.org. "The Literacy Foundation has garnered unique credibility and expertise with respect to both literacy training and basic training. It is a real bridge between the public and literacy organizations, as well as the literacy training and lifelong learning networks. The Literacy Foundation has the largest memembership network (individuals, oraganizations, companies) in Canada, and we direct all requests to the appropriate literacy training resources." —Maryse Perreault, Présidente-directrice générale, Fondation pour l'alphabétisation Back to top Save the Children Canada Save the Children Canada has been working for nearly 90 years both in Canada and overseas to bring immediate and lasting improvements to children's lives through the realization of their rights. Their focus on education includes increasing access to relevant and quality education, literacy, and skills training for children and youth. Their work is targeted toward ensuring that all children receive basic education that is relevant for their future, and to build education infrastructure that is nationally sustainable. Save the Children Canada is a member of the International Save the Children Alliance. With 28 members and operational programs in over 120 countries, the Alliance is the world's largest global movement for children. To find out more about Save the Children Canada, visit www.savethechildren.ca. “As the world’s oldest and largest independent movement for children, we are delighted to be a partner with Scholastic in this innovative partnership to help children. Around the world we have seen the difference literacy makes in the lives of children, and this collaboration will provide more children with that same opportunity.” —David Morley, President and CEO, Save the Children Canada Back to top

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