Friends of LEEF · Annual Membership

Every reader starts somewhere. Every leader starts as a reader.

The Lewis Educational Enrichment Foundation develops youth literacy, confidence, and leadership across Arizona's East Valley through three student-powered programs. Join the community that funds them.

See the three ways to give Give to a single program

From $5 a month or $25 a year · 100% of every gift reaches the mission · EIN 33-4743971 · tax-deductible

Three ways to give

Pick the one that fits. Monthly members are what let us commit to a full school year of programming instead of one season at a time.

Literacy

$5a month

Literacy Membership

Funds the books, the reading ladder, and the winter deliveries — Gray2Pink and Slippers4Stories. This is the gift that puts something in a child’s hands.

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Leadership

$5a month

Leadership Membership

Funds the Brown Bag Supper speaker series and the student internships that run every program. This is the gift that builds the people doing the work.

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Annual

$25a year

Friends of LEEF

Our annual membership community, supporting all three programs. The simplest way in, and the one most people start with.

Join Friends of LEEF

100% of every gift reaches the mission. Our giving platform charges nonprofits nothing, so no processing fee is taken out of what you give. And high school interns run all three programs — so every dollar serves the children in the programs and trains the young leaders operating them.

What your membership funds

Three programs, one arc: start the reader, grow the reader, grow the leader.

Gray2Pink

A year-round literacy program where children climb an earned reading achievement ladder toward book vending machine rewards.

Give to Gray2Pink →

Slippers4Stories

A seasonal campaign delivering slippers and books each winter to students in need.

Give to Slippers4Stories →

Brown Bag Supper

A leadership speaker series seating high school students at the table with accomplished leaders at Mesa's historic Falcon Field.

Give to Brown Bag Supper →

Three ways to help

Membership is the steadiest. It is not the only one.

Join

Become a Friend of LEEF for $25 a year or more. Annual members are what let us commit to a full school year of programming rather than one season at a time.

Join Friends of LEEF → · or give once to a single program →

Serve

Collection drives need hosts. Events need hands. Reading programs need adults willing to sit down with a child and listen. Students who serve with LEEF log verified hours toward the Mesa Public Schools Honor for Excellence in Service Learning.

Partner

Businesses and schools join as collection partners each season, host a donation box, sponsor a delivery, or send a speaker to the Brown Bag Supper series. In-kind gifts of books and slippers are welcome and are receipted the same as cash.

Give with your eyes open

Everything a donor should be able to check, in one place.

Legal name

Lewis Educational Enrichment Foundation, Inc.

Tax status

501(c)(3) public charity · 509(a)(2)

EIN

33-4743971

Exempt since

April 1, 2025

State registration

Arizona · entity 23807792

Governance

Volunteer board, uncompensated · meet them

Our IRS determination letter is available on request, and our exempt status can be confirmed directly through the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search. Directors serve five-year terms without compensation, under adopted bylaws and a conflict of interest policy.

Every pink was once gray.

Flamingos earn their color. So do readers. Your membership is what starts a child climbing.

Join Friends of LEEF

Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. EIN 33-4743971.

Empowering learners. Enriching communities. Building brighter futures.