Empowering Children Through Literacy

Our Mission

Mission: Galas Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, EIN (93-4836764), is mission-driven: to decrease illiteracy and the opportunity gap in South Fulton, Georgia, for low-income families and help students through virtual tutoring programs learn the skills needed to obtain, retain, apply, and analyze knowledge through literacy.

Our Goal

We aim to increase the average of proficient readers in South Fulton, Ga., by providing free ELA virtual tutoring services to the following elementary schools: Mary M. Bethune, Feldwood, Heritage, S.L. Lewis, Love T. Nolan, and Oakley.


Our Why

We selected these six elementary schools in South Fulton, Ga. because 42.8% of the third, fourth, and fifth-grade students read below grade level.



  • Early Literacy Connection to Incarceration

    Illiteracy and crime are connected. The Department of Justice states, “The link between academic failure and delinquency, violence, and crime is welded to reading failure. Over 70% of inmates in America’s prisons cannot read above a fourth-grade level.”

    <—Additional Statistics on Low Early Literacy Skills and Incarceration—>

  • Early Literacy Connection Incarceration

    • Students who dropout of high school are 5 times more likely than high school graduates to be arrested in their lifetime.

    • Students who dropout of high school are 63% more likely to be incarcerated than their peers with four-year college degrees.

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  • Early Literacy Connection to Incarceration

    • According to the National Assessment of Adult Literacy, 2/3 of students who cannot read proficiently by the end of the fourth grade will end up in jail or on welfare.

    • 85% of all juveniles who interface with the juvenile court system are functionally low literate.

    • Juvenile incarceration reduces the probability of high school completion and increases the probability of incarceration later in life.

    <—Additional Statistics on Low Early Literacy Skills and Incarceration:—>

  • Early Literacy Connection to Incarceration

    Sources:

    Beginning To Read

    Literacy Behind Prison Walls

    Literacy is Critical

    Juvenile Incarceration