Quirky Pickle has always pledged to donate 10% of net profits of ALL income to literacy projects, but we wanted to do more! So, QPEF was born!
Quirky Pickle Education Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit education charity organization established in January 2026 as a dedicated commitment to develop and support special projects involved in literacy and communication initiatives across the United States. This is now where our literacy-enriching workshops, events, and grant support for projects will live, and your donations are tax-deductible.
Did You Know?
How About These Troubling Statistics?
The literacy rate in the United States is 79% for adults, meaning that 79% of U.S. adults have the English literacy skills to complete tasks that require comparing and contrasting information, paraphrasing, or making low-level inferences.
The average American reads at the 7th-8th grade level. Illiteracy rates:
21% of adults in the US are illiterate.
54% of adults have a literacy below 6th-grade level.
That's still approximately 43 MILLION U.S. ADULTS THAT STRUGGLE WITH BASIC READING AND WRITING.
Males have a literacy rate of 90%, while females have a literacy rate of 82.7%.
130 million adults are unable to read a simple story to their children.
44% of American adults do not read a book in a year.
Two-thirds of 4th and 8th graders are unable to read proficiently.
6 out of 10 households do not buy a single book in a year.
Less than 20% of Americans will read the text on a website, barely scanning for what is of value at that moment. Congratulations to you for doing all of the reading YOU have already done here.
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