Where storytelling meets sound — and literacy becomes powerful.

Beats & Literacy® is MPDF’s premier culturally responsive literacy initiative designed to increase reading engagement, strengthen fluency, and build confidence through music-infused learning experiences.

This interactive program blends live storytelling, rhythm-based learning, creative writing, and performance to help youth connect with literacy in meaningful and culturally relevant ways.

Through Beats & Literacy®, students:

• Improve reading engagement and fluency
• Strengthen comprehension and vocabulary
• Build confidence through creative expression
• Develop social-emotional learning skills
• Experience academic enrichment through arts integration

We bring this program into schools, after-school programs, and community organizations to make literacy accessible, engaging, and empowering.

Your support helps provide:

• Books and literacy materials
• Curriculum and storytelling resources
• Workshop facilitation and instruction
• Creative learning supplies
• Program delivery to schools with limited arts funding

When you fund Beats & Literacy®, you invest in academic confidence and creative empowerment.

Literacy is not just reading.
It is voice.
It is rhythm.
It is possibility.

Our goal is to expand access to culturally responsive literacy programming in communities where reading engagement and enrichment opportunities are limited.

Each contribution directly supports measurable academic and confidence outcomes.