ORGANIZATION OVERVIEW Book Trust is a national literacy nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower children from low-income families to choose and own books, inspiring a passion for reading, developing literacy skills, and fostering life-long learning. Participating students are empowered to order 2-3 books each month of the school year from Scholastic Reading Club building a personal library of up to 30 books over the course of the school year. Book Trust currently serves 50,000 students in 170 schools across 19 states.