“Breakthrough Miami is an opportunity generator, and the opportunity to partner with B4F provided scholars with books to explore and enjoy this summer!”
—Tasha Edmonds, Site Director, Palmer Trinity.
Thank you, Breakthrough Miami Summer Camp for all your efforts and book donations to our program Books For Free. We are grateful for your support and thank you for your commitment to children’s literacy in the Miami Community.
Breakthrough Miami provides an academic enrichment program that uses a student-teaching-students model to ensure that motivated, under-resourced 5th – 12th grade students have access to excellent educational opportunities, graduate from high school on time, and attend college.
Breakthrough Miami currently serves 1,300 middle and high school students at six community campus locations (Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart, Gulliver Prep, Miami Country Day School, Palmer Trinity, Ransom Everglades and the University of Miami). Acceptance into the program is based on a competitive application and interview process, in which we identify students who are academically motivated and meet at least two of the following five risk factors associated with failure to enter/complete college:
- Ethnic/racial minorities (96% of our students)
- Family income qualifies for free/reduced lunch (85%)
- First generation in their families to attend college in the U.S. (48%)
- Single-parent household (47%)
- Primary language other than English (50%)
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Books for Free is a program of The Children’s Trust in partnership with Miami Book Fair at Miami Dade College. Our goal is to get more books in the hands of children who need them the most – magical, world-building, life-changing books that they can keep to read with their families over and over again. We achieve this goal by delivering an average of 2,443 new and gently used books per week to 73 public bookshelves located in high-traffic locations throughout Miami-Dade County’s most underserved neighborhoods. These books are free for the taking by children and their caregivers.
