On Saturday, April 1st, The Hudson Literacy Fund celebrated its tenth year with an event at Hudson Hall honoring Lisa Dolan and Maria Suttmeier, two of their tireless founders. Every year, The Hudson Literacy Fund raises money for book “good-for coupons”, enabling local students to purchase books signed by their favorite author at the Hudson […]

The Claverack Free Library and The Hudson Literacy Fund, a non-profit whose mission is to get books into the hands of Hudson kids, today announced a co-sponsored Banned Books Book Club for 16-20 year-old readers living in the Claverack and Hudson communities . The Club will focus on the American Library Association’s (ALA) 2022 List

The Hudson City School District put forward Christine Jones to the Capital Area School Development Association (CASDA) in consideration for one of their 2022 Friends of Education Awards. On April 13, 2022, Principal Mark Brenneman, Superintendent for Innovation April Prestipino, and Jennifer Clark, along with The Hudson Literacy Fund board members Lisa Dolan, Matt Parker,

The Hudson Literacy Fund held its virtual annual fundraiser, “Turning the Page, Our Next Chapter,” on Thursday, June 10th. Co-hosts Jenna Bush Hager and Al Roker led authors, teachers, and Hudson City School District students through the program with personal stories about reading, writing and books.  The Hudson Literacy Fund’s mission is to bolster HCSD

Got desks? Not every student in the Hudson City School District does, and for students who are doing all their learning from home, that is a real problem. The Hudson Literacy Fund vowed to change that, so it’s tackling the problem head on by providing 100 free desks. The fund is a 501(c)(3) that supports literacy within the

The Hudson Literacy Fund in collaboration with The Friends of Hudson Youth embarked on a project to populate Hudson, and the five towns that make up the Hudson City School District, with Little Free Libraries. LFLs are free-standing tiny buildings that house two shelves of books – one for children’s books and one for adults’

This year’s Hudson Children’s Book Festival guest of honor, author Seymour Simon with wife and literary agent Liz Nealon. By: Jamie Larson of Rural Intelligence The Hudson Literacy Fund was first created to raise money to make sure that any child, regardless of income, could walk away from the Hudson Children’s Book Festival with a book and a positive learning experience. The organization has since

Each year, starting in January – before the May Hudson Children’s Book Festival, The Hudson Literacy Fund works with teachers and librarians engaging elementary and middle school students to read and review books of authors coming to the festival. Students critique the work with one to five thumbs up on review cards which are tallied

Festival co-founder Susan Simon, Colin Stair and Literacy Fund co-founder Chris Jones By: Amy Krzanik of Rural Intelligence This year, the Hudson Children’s Book Festival (HCBF) is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and the Fest’s Literacy Fund is marking its sixth year helping the city’s kids attend and purchase a book of their choice at the event. The group’s annual cocktail party fundraiser again was held at Stair

Book Fest director Jen Clark with Melissa Brown, a board member and Hudson city school teacher. By Amy Krzanik of  Rural Intelligence A great cause deserves a great turnout, so it’s always a pleasure to see a large crowd of supporters congregate at the annual cocktail party fundraiser for the Hudson Children’s Book Festival Literacy Fund. Held at Stair Galleries on Warren