Get Involved
Get Involved
Hardcover Foundation is a platform for people who want to use their gifts, talents, expertise, passions, businesses, or vision to positively impact the community.
Where Things Stand
Programs, Partnerships, and Initiatives Are in Development
Hardcover Foundation is currently developing its programs, partnerships, and community initiatives. The pathways below are ways to express interest and start a conversation — not applications, registrations, or active intake processes.
Express General InterestWays to Participate
Find Your Path
Learn & Grow
For youth and students, parents and families, and educators and schools interested in Hardcover's literacy-focused programming as it develops.
Join a Program
Hardcover's programs are currently in strategic development. Express interest now and hear from us as programming is confirmed.
Express interestGuide & Give Time
For mentors and volunteers who want to help others read the rooms, people, and systems around them.
Become a Mentor
Share your experience and guide others as Hardcover builds its mentorship pathways.
Express interestVolunteer
Give your time in support of the mission as community initiatives take shape.
Express interestInvest & Partner
For entrepreneurs and professionals, businesses, nonprofits, municipalities, and donors investing in community-centered work.
Lead an Initiative
Bring your own gifts, expertise, or idea to a mission-aligned initiative.
Learn more about leading an initiativeBecome a Community Partner
Align your organization with Hardcover's educational and community-centered work.
Learn more about partnershipSponsor the Mission
Support Hardcover's mission as its programs and initiatives develop.
Learn more about sponsorshipInvest & Partner
Lead an Initiative
Hardcover Foundation helps qualified people explore how their gifts, expertise, ideas, and passions may contribute to educational and community-centered initiatives. If you have a mission-aligned idea, you're welcome to reach out, explore alignment, and discuss it.
Leading an initiative means collaborating on a project the Foundation has approved — it does not mean operating independently under Hardcover's nonprofit status. Hardcover Foundation is not a fiscal sponsor, participants are not Foundation employees, and expressing interest does not guarantee funding, a contract, a customer, publicity, or that a proposed idea will launch.
Express interest in leading an initiativeInvest & Partner
Partnership and Sponsorship
Hardcover Foundation welcomes partnerships and sponsorship around education, youth and community development, mentorship, culture and creativity, leadership, and access to knowledge and resources. Partnership conversations are framed around shared educational and community impact.
Becoming a Community Partner and sponsoring the mission are both currently ways to express interest — they route to the same general inquiry email until dedicated partnership and sponsorship intake processes are established.
Have a general question first? Visit the Contact page.