Funder Partnerships
Partner with AIM to advance literacy for all learners.
At AIM, we know meaningful change in literacy happens when innovative funders, education leaders, and expert practitioners work together toward a shared goal: ensuring every child becomes a skilled, confident reader. Philanthropic partners play a critical role in expanding what is possible—helping AIM bring evidence-based literacy training to more educators, strengthen systems, and build models that can scale across schools, districts, and states.
AIM has a strong track record of working closely with funding partners to develop meaningful projects from supporting statewide initiatives to improving instruction in high-need school communities, our partnerships—including recent work across Maryland with the support of IBIS Group and with our new ERSS schools initiative funded by The Raphael Family Foundaion—demonstrate what can be achieved when funders and AIM align resources, expertise, and vision.
Empowering Lives Through Literacy
How Your Support Can Make a Difference
Your investment helps AIM:
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Expand access to AIM Pathways professional learning, equipping thousands of educators with the knowledge and skills needed to deliver effective, evidence-based reading instruction.
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Grow school, district, and state partnerships that strengthen literacy outcomes and ensure consistency and quality across instructional systems.
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Advance applied research and impact measurement that connects the science of reading to real classrooms and provides leaders with the data they need to drive improvement.
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Develop innovative tools and resources that empower educators, families, and communities to support every learner.
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Scale high-impact implementation models to reach more students, especially in under-resourced and marginalized communities.
Together with philanthropic partners, AIM builds solutions that are sustainable, research-aligned, and designed for real-world results.
Ready to Talk About Partnership?
If you’re interested in advancing AIM’s literacy mission through philanthropic support, our development team would be glad to connect and explore opportunities for impact.
Partner Spotlights
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The AIM Institute for Learning & Research is excited to announce that AIM Pathways training to support leaders and literacy supervisors in Maryland is part of a newly announced $6.85 million philanthropic partnership with the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) and Ibis Group.
The partnership is detailed in the MSDE’s news release announcing the grant, which will support high-quality professional learning grounded in the Science of Reading to educators and leaders throughout the state.
An estimated $5.35 million of this four-year grant will support professional development for Maryland’s teachers and leaders including up to 6,000 school administrators, district literacy supervisors, and secondary educators through AIM Pathways training in Pathways to Literacy Leadership and Pathways to Proficient Reading: Secondary. The grant also includes teacher training provided by the State University of New York, New Paltz, through its Science of Reading Fundamentals Microcredential Program.
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The AIM Institute for Learning & Research is proud to announce the selection of 10 schools for our new AIM Early Reading Success Schools initiative. This fully-funded, yearlong demonstration project is designed to transform early literacy instruction and ensure that more than 1,000 children in more than 60 classrooms across the country are reading at grade level by the end of the school year.
Supported with a $750,000 donation by the Raphael Family Foundation, the initiative provides AIM-led professional learning, coaching, and implementation support per school to help participating teams accelerate reading outcomes and build sustainable systems for early literacy success. The participating schools represent a diverse cross-section of the country, including rural communities and major cities, and span public, private, and charter school settings.
AIM Funder Partnerships
We are grateful for past and present donor partnerships who have supported to development and growth of AIM.
The Barra Foundation
Benedict Sliverman Foundation
BLBB Charitable
Ibis Group
JF Maddox Foundation
Kingsbury Family Foundation
Klingenstein Philanthropies
Olitsky Family Foundation
PHLY Foundation
Robertson Foundation
The Albert M. Greenfield Foundation
The Clayman Foundation
The Edward E. Ford Foundation
The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation
The Raphael Family Foundation
van Beuren Charitable Foundation
Wells Fargo