Read On Southwest Valley
Read On Southwest Valley is a collaborative effort facilitated by Valley of the Sun United to identify gaps and enable collaboration across community efforts focused on early literacy, supporting the full continuum including school readiness, chronic absenteeism, and professional development.
Read On Southwest Valley is working with a cross-section of community leaders to identify the areas of concern and develop solutions to address the issue using data and evidence-based best practices.
Priority Areas
Family Engagement
Access to Evidence-Based Literacy Programs
Professional Development for Educators
Reducing Chronic Absence
Collaborative Partners
- Arizona Department of Education
- Arizona PBS
- Arizona’s Children Association
- Avondale Elementary School District
- Avondale Resource Center
- AZ Community Impact
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Arizona
- Buckeye Elementary School District
- Candelen
- Catholic Charities
- Child and Family Resources, Inc.
- City of Avondale
- City of Buckeye
- City of Goodyear
- City of Peoria
- City of Phoenix
- City of Tolleson
- Common Sense Media
- Denova Integrated Health Care
- Discovery Education
- Education Forward Arizona
- Estrella Mountain Community College
- First Things First
- Joy for Books
- Littleton Elementary School District
- Lutheran Social Services
- Make Way for Books
- Maricopa County Housing Authority
- Million Dollar Teacher Project
- Mountain Park Health
- National Center for Families Learning
- Pendergast Elementary School District
- Read Better Be Better
- Read On Arizona
- Rotary Club of Goodyear PebbleCreek
- Scholastic
- SOUNDS Academy
- Southwest Human Development
- Tolleson Elementary School District
- Treasures for Teachers
- Union Elementary School District
- Unite for Literacy
- Valley of the Sun United Way
- Valley of the Sun YMCA
Contact Us
Community Lead
Dawn Gerundo
Valley of the Sun United Way
602.631.4907
dgerundo@vsuw.org
Phoenix and Avondale Early Childhood Fiscal Map
Read On Arizona and the Children’s Funding Project partnered with Read On Phoenix and Read On Southwest Valley to create a child/family-centered fiscal map to analyze funding streams for early childhood services and supports in the Phoenix/Avondale area.
Read On Communities
- Buckeye
- Casa Grande
- Chandler
- Cochise County
- Flagstaff
- Gila Bend
- Goodyear
- Greater Surprise
- Hualapai
- Mesa
- Northern Pinal County
- Phoenix
- Pima County
- Prescott
- San Carlos Apache Tribe
- Santa Cruz County
- Scottsdale
- Southwest Valley
- Tempe
- Yuma