Among my foundation's largest grants was to Reading Partners. When 9 million elementary school children do not read at grade level today, CEO Adeola Whitney urged us to support their incredible work, "[we can] right now...invest in the future America they want to live in" and quoted Langston Hughes:
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow
#future #dreams
