Every summer, low-income students in Delaware (and across the country) lose the equivalent of 3 months of learning. In the meantime, their affluent peers have access to rigorous academic, sports, arts, and tech activities, camps and programs. For this reason, summer is the most unequal time of the year, accounting for up to two-thirds of the academic achievement gap between low income and high income students. So, at the exact time that our children need the most, they are being provided with the least.

SummerCollab is addressing this inequity. Every summer, the campers that are farthest behind academically are making major gains in literacy. The overwhelming majority (80%) show growth in reading comprehension skills. Campers also show growth in both their leadership and personal skills.

Summer 2021 continued to be a challenging period for our community. COVID-19 and the restrictions still in place continued to force us to think "outside of the box" with the way we engage with our youth. And we did just that! SummerCollab continued to embrace the evolving circumstances and maintain CDC guidance, while continuing to provide high quality programming for the more than 200 students in grades K-5 we served daily with individual literacy support and new and exciting experiences for 6 weeks.

With your support, we can continue to DO MORE - we can reach more youth and have a greater impact on their academic and life success.