Reading + Education
Supporting Education Through Reading
At Target, a significant portion of our giving goes toward funding education, with a focus on helping more U.S. students read proficiently by the end of third grade. Through programs like Take Charge of Education® and Target School Library Makeovers, and events like Read Across America, we’re helping kids reach their full potential.
Reading Programs
Education Programs
Target School Library Makeovers
In partnership with The Heart of America Foundation®, Target team members have transformed libraries across the country.
Read Across America
In partnership with the National Education Association, Target stores host Read Across America events each year, featuring fun book-themed family activities.
More about Read Across America
Book Festivals
Target sponsors book festivals in Los Angeles, Minneapolis and Washington, D.C., inspiring hundreds of thousands of children to develop a lifelong love of reading.
Books for Schools Award
Our Target stores and Distribution Centers have donated thousands of books through a partnership with First Book.
Take Charge of Education
With the help of our REDcard® holders, Target has donated over $298 million to K–12 schools since 1997. Discover how schools benefit from our signature program—and how you can get involved.
Meals for Minds
Kids who don’t get the proper nutrition have trouble concentrating in school. That’s why, through a partnership with Feeding America, we help give K–12 students the food they need to succeed.
Target Store Grants
These grants support schools and other nonprofit groups involved with the arts and culture, and early childhood reading.
Target School Spree
We work with The Salvation Army to provide students in need with Target GiftCards® and a shopping chaperone.
More about our partnership withThe Salvation Army
Partners + Sponsorships
Target works with organizations large and small to help students, teachers and schools everywhere.
American Library Association First Book National PTA - Every Child. One Voice. PTO Today Reach Out and Read United Negro College Fund United Through Reading Search Institute Hispanic Scholarship Fund Kids in need foundation Library of Congress National Urban League