My Own Book Fund

Research has shown, time and again, that students who are reading at least grade level when exiting third grade will have more opportunity to be productive and to contribute to society, as a whole. To this end, the mission of My Own Book Fund (mobf), simply put, is to raise the child literacy attainment in disadvantaged communities by empowering third-grade children enrolled in title i new york city public schools to select, purchase, and read their very Own books- and, in doing so each child has the opportunity to advance to be reading at the third-grade level or beyond by the end of the school year.