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Actions by Funders and Policymakers Funders provide resources to expand the number and reach of high-quality family literacy programs and other efforts to expand parents' ability to cultivate their children's interest in reading and learning. Even Start, a federally funded, comprehensive family literacy program, builds on existing community resources to provide a unified program of adult education, parenting education, early childhood education, and interactive parent and child literacy activities. www.evenstart.org/ and www.famlit.org/ProgramsandInitiatives/EvenStart/index.cfm Policymakers expand opportunities for federal work-study students to undertake literacy activities, including tutoring children (from infancy through elementary school), their parents, and other primary caregivers, and preparing adults to read with their own children. Funders support the efforts of community groups to enlist libraries, health and child care providers, places of worship, and community organizations in efforts to increase parents' access to books and reading awareness programs. Funders support public education campaigns that emphasize the importance of language and literacy development during the first five years of life, of reading to young children at home, and of interacting with young children by talking, questioning, listening, and singing with them.